Creating secondary linux domain & post office @ another city

I have a primary domain and post office in one city. Consoleone, shows them on my NSS volumes as /media/nss/MAIL/groupwise/domain and /media/nss/MAIL/groupwise/po
I created a new domain for another city, and gave it UNC pathing \\portland\MAIL\groupwise\domainnc. It did create the domain in eDirectory, but made a file structure under /mnt called /mnt/portland/MAIL/groupwise/domainnc. Not sure about what was going on with that, I copied the directory structure and all the files from there to the proper location of the portland server, started the domain and it fired up. Both domains showed that each other was up, communicating presumably entirely by IP.
I loaded ConsoleOne on the portland server and can see both domains.
So far so good.
When I created the new portland post office on the primary domain server, it did the exact same thing, making a /mnt/portland/MAIL/groupwise/ponc file structure, which again I copied to the portland server.
when I fired up the post office on the portland server, it did start and sat there looking like a post office (I did the --show option in linux), however none of the domains seem to recognize that there is a running post office. In fact, my domain in portland doesn't even know that it has a post office. It says that it sees another domain, but that it has 0 post offices configured so far. Consoleone on the portland server does not show a post office for portland.
ConsoleONe on the primary groupwise server does show the post office or I should say did, last friday. Today (Sunday) it's not there anymore.
I suspect my problem has something to do with mounting the file system of the portland server on the primary domain/post office server, but I'm unclear how those commands work.
Also, I'm unclear as to why I really need that if everything communciates via TCP/IP. Seems like it's only the portland server that physically needs to know about the post office physical file location. When I try using unc pathing (i.e. \\server\volume\location) ConsoleOne changes it to /mnt/server/volume/location.
Trying to find a concise document on this, but haven't found it yet.
Any ideas?

In article <[email protected]>, Johnehurst wrote:
> ConsoleONe on the primary groupwise server does show the post office or
> I should say did, last friday. Today (Sunday) it's not there anymore.
>
If no instance of ConsoleOne see the new PostOffice anymore, it might be
time to recreate again, but this time do so on the server that you are
creating it for with that instance of ConsoleOne.
As for addressing within ConsoleOne for the Domains and PostOffices, make
sure they are pointing to the real location of the files
So for your Portland server/domain/postoffice
/media/nss/MAIL/groupwise/domainnc
/media/nss/MAIL/groupwise/ponc
The only real reason for those file pointers are for the agents (MTA &
POA) to see their files, so the format needs to in relation to where the
agents are running. Everything else should be over IP.
Andy Konecny
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2. Upgrade Datasychronizer server from sles11sp2 to sles11sp3
3. Upgrade Datasychronizer software to Groupwise Mobility Server 2.0 (At this point I would have to reconnect to old post office?)
Sure, though I'd not 2.01 can be applied directly as upgrade on your current 1.x Mobility system. Do make sure you set a snapshot on the VM before the upgrade (with the VM tunred off) and leave it long enough, a week or so, until you have checked and double checked all is working on the 2.01 system. That way it's easy enough to roll back to 1.x if needed.
Originally Posted by dlietz
4. Copy Groupwise system to new server using db copy in multiple passes with a final pass when groupwise is offline and run upgrade process.
Yep, and if the current filesystem is NSS... make sure to run it with the migrate (-m) option so the lowercase conversion runs with it.
Originally Posted by dlietz
I was also considering separating Webaccess and Calendar Publishing to separate server since Webaccess is no longer part of the Groupwise server install.
Absolutely, and I'd also place that Webaccess/Calendar Publishing server in a DMZ if you have it. All that's needed with the 2012/2014 version is access to the SOAP port on the POA(s).
Cheers,
Willem

How an Ethernet switch creates a collision domain on each port?

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How an Ethernet switch creates a collision domain on each port?
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A switch port running in half duplex is basically the same as any other two hosts running half duplex between them. When either host transmits, each has a chance to collide with a transmission from the other host.
As frames between switch ports are buffered, hosts on two different ports, even if they transmit at the same time, won't directly collide. Again, though, if port is running half duplex, host can collide with switch port retransmitting the other host's traffic. I.e. two hosts, on two different ports, behave (practically) as if they were directly connected. The advantage of a switch, however, is another two hosts transmitting to each other won't collide between the two pairs, as they would on a hub. I.e. on a hub A<>B frames may collide with C<>D frames, but they shouldn't on a switch.
If host ports are running in full duplex, there should be no collisions at all (which would also be true with a pair of hosts on a full duplex wire between them).
NB: above is just for unicast when switch "knows" destination MAC's port.

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