Secondary Post Office & SDD

WTF?!? Can you please remove the need to have a SDD to create new post offices??? Please?! It is a real pain in the ass when we are trying to setup secondary Post Office at remote locations, especially in clusters... PLEASE CHANGE THIS! Thank you!
Now to my question, how can I create a Post Office that does not have access to a SDD and will not have access to one and please don't tell me that I need to set one up because at remote locations over WAN lines it'll will be a nightmare and cost the customer a fortune and then the customer will not be happy and their mgmt is already *****ing about wanting to migrate to Exch (can't even spell it out)? Actually, almost all of my customers do not have and do not want an sdd.... Now, I understand the idea behind an sdd and think it's a good concept, It's just not needed in most environments and in the environments where it is not needed and/or wanted then please make an alternative install method for po's...
Thanks for your assistance and time.
Mike

In article <[email protected]>, Pvaiq6167 wrote:
> the idea is to save the customer the cost of having someone
> like me sit here and copy files to a remote location
>
For things like that, I have a copy run on a system I can disconnect
from and leave to run on its own in the background.
I've done this for terabytes of data and I've found that the SDD works
well for that.
Andy Konecny
Knowledge Partner (voluntary SysOp)
KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
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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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[9505] Your Post Office is Unavailable.

Recently migrated Groupwise 2012 services from a single box to a split system with PO, Domain, and Monitor on one box and the GWIA, Webaccess & secondary domain on the second box. All seems well, except *some* users (not all, only a handful) are receiving the following message when logging into webaccess:
[9505] Your Post Office is Unavailable. The Post Office Agent might not be configured for SOAP. Please contact your system administrator.
Checking the webaccess logs reveals the following error:
8:11:43, <SOAP>, -, INFO, [username], Login
8:11:43, <SOAP>, -, INFO, [username], Unable to connect to the POA @ http://10.1.10.35:7191/soap
10.1.10.35 is the IP of the previous POA - the new POA is 10.1.10.135
SOAP appears to be configured properly and other users are not having any problems. Why just these users?
Thanks!

IP is correct in the webacc.cfg file - though not sure why the last line is commented out. Again, only some users are affected.
Provider.SOAP.1.ip=10.1.10.135
Provider.SOAP.1.port=7191
#Provider.SOAP.1.url=/soap
Checked the TID 7012354. There was no garbage character that I could see, but the Display Name in the General Options was entirely blank. I put the user's Display Name in the field and restarted Webaccess and that user can login now. Wow. Weird.
I then tried another user that was getting the same error - turns out that user's Display Name is blank as well (I didn't make any changes), but it didn't matter - they could log in to webaccess fine - so now wondering if restarting webaccess was all that was needed in the first place? It's not making much sense. Why is this only happening to a few users? Why do some users have a blank display name under those general options? I only enabled the POP3 & IMAP online settings for those specific users and then checked via their client for the Account settings. Looks to be a tough setting to verify for 2000+ users if it can only be accessed via the user's client login.
I went back and unchecked the POP3 & IMAP Online setting for those users and restarted webaccess... everything still appears ok. so just weird.
Will have to monitor for additional user complaints - otherwise, looks now.
Thanks!

Creating new post office / Agent on new server

I am currently running all of my GroupWise 2014 system on the a SLES 11 SP3 server with EXT3 drives. I am needing to move my domain and post office onto an NSS drive for my backup software to be able to restore back on a per user/message basis. So I have created a new OES 11 SP2 server and have created an NSS drive to hold my new domain and Post office.
Since I am not well versed at OES / GroupWise I thought it would be easier to create a secondary domain and Post office on my new NSS drive and move everyone onto the new post office and remove the old post office after everything has been moved.
However, I have created the secondary domain and it is linked and open but I can not startup a new post office linked to the secondary domain. I get the following error:
*com.novell.gw.directory.exception.GwCommunication Exception: An error occurred modifying an attribute value. Path not found (0x8209); remaining name 'nssdom.post-nss'
What could be causing this?
Sincerely,
Ken

Thanks for continuing to help me on this issue. This is the out of the ll command.
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 offiles
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 ofmsg
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 ofuser
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 ofwork
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 09:03 Postofficepath
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 wpcsin
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 wpcsout
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd3
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd5
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd6
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd7
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd8
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fd9
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fda
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fdb
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fdc
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fdd
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fde
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 fdf
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd0:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd1:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd2:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd3:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd4:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd5:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd6:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd7:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd8:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fd9:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fda:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fdb:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fdc:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fdd:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fde:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/offiles/fdf:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/ofmsg:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/ofuser:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/ofwork:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 ofdirect
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/ofwork/ofdirect:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 3
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 5
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 6
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 7
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/0:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/1:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/2:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/3:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/4:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/5:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/6:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsin/7:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 ofs
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 3
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 5
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 6
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4.0K Nov 20 08:41 7
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/0:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/1:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/2:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/3:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/4:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/5:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/6:
total 0
/media/nss/NSS_GWISE/groupwise/postoff/wpcsout/ofs/7:
total 0

WAN traffic generated by Remote Post Office?

Just started working for an organization with 2 remote offices, both holding a Groupwise Post Office (GW7 now but will be GW8 soon). In each case, there is no secondary domain for the remote Post Offices thus no MTA. The Post Offices are part of a domain back in the main office. I want to change this and place an MTA at each location, which will require that I create new Post Offices and then move the users over. I would like to know, in the meantime, whether there is any more or less bandwidth consumed by the current configuration without an MTA at the remote sites vs. what we would see with a proper secondary domain, MTA and POA. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Hi Dave,
The first setting I change is on the central MTA:
--tcpinbound
I set this to anywhere between 200 and 400 threads depending on how busy the MTA is. I find the default of 40 not good enough for having secondary domains on the other side of dodgy WAN links.
The second set of changes I make is on the remote MTA:
--tcpwaitconnect
--tcpwaitdata
depending on how bad the WAN connection is I've set these as high as 40 [seconds] in the past - understanding the the default is 5 seconds.
Without the above settings I found that the remote MTA could overrun my central MTA with half-open/closed connections rendering the central MTA unable to process any new connections and thus unable to process mail.
Hope that the above information is useful to somebody :)
Cheers

The version of GroupWise you are using cannot access this post office

I built a new Server and added it to my PCSD Tree. The new server name is
GroupWise and has an IP Address of 10.10.0.13.
I followed the GroupWise 7 Installation Guide and installed GroupWise to
this server. At no point did I find any place to enter the GroupWise
License.
During the install I discovered that 4 of my long time employees were not
able to be assigned to this new GroupWise server. It appears that a one
time (Long time ago) these 4 employees were part of an old GroupWise Mail
server that must have been removed. I can not find any reference to this
old GroupWise server. My thought is to delete the accounts for there 4
users and recreate the accounts.
However the larger problem is this: I can not login to the GroupWise
Server. Below are two screen shots of what I’m getting when I
launch the GroupWise 7 Client. When I look at the .NLM loaded on the
Server for GroupWise MTA 7.0 it shows Domain Total=1 Closed=0, Post
Offices Total=1 Closed=1, Gateways Total=0 Closed=0.
On the Client, when I launch GroupWise, The Novell GroupWise Startup has a
message in the message window “The version of GroupWise you are
using cannot access this post office”. Then after clicking OK three
times, the following message appears on the screen “GroupWise did
not initialize successfully, Please run GroupWise Setup, or contact your
system administrator. Unspecified error OLE Error 80004005

*During the install I discovered that 4 of my long time employees were not
able to be assigned to this new GroupWise server. It appears that a one
time (Long time ago) these 4 employees were part of an old GroupWise Mail
server that must have been removed. I can not find any reference to this
old GroupWise server. My thought is to delete the accounts for there 4
users and recreate the accounts.
**You need to disassociate these four NDS users from any GW attributes.
Right-click each user in C1, GroupWise Utilities->GW / eDirectory
Association->Disassociate GroupWise Attributes.
*** When I do as instructed I get the following error:
[username] is missing the following attribute: NGW: Post Office
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*GroupWise MTA 7.0 it shows Domain Total=1 Closed=0, Post
Offices Total=1 Closed=1, Gateways Total=0 Closed=0.
**If the post office is closed, you need to determine why this is. On the
MTA, hit F10, Configuration Status, highlight your PO and hit enter,
select details, then look at the last closure reason.
*** Last Closure Reason= Missing or incomplete address information
[ When I installed GroupWise, I wanted all the e-mail to be stored on the
EMAIL Volume. During the install, I Changed the Install Directory to
\Groupwiseemail. After the install I have two directories in this volume.
One called DOMAIN and the other called PCAM (PCAM is name of my domain).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*On the Client, when I launch GroupWise, The Novell GroupWise Startup has
a message in the message window 'The version of GroupWise you are
using cannot access this post office'.
**What version of GroupWise is on the server and what version client are
you
using? Also, if you pull up the properties of both the domain and post
office in C1 what is the database version listed as?
*** I installed GroupWise 7 both Server and Client. I'm thinking this is
due to the Post Office being closed. I only have 1 Post Office.
Thank You;
Lewis

With Firefox 4 I can't print a shipping label off the post office's website (click 'n ship) like I used to with Firefox 3

I go through all the steps to print out a shipping label when I am on the post office's website for click 'n ship, but the website won't communicate with my printer (when I am in firefox 4). So I switched back to Firefox 3 and have no problems.
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How can I get a list of Post Offices?

Hi,
I would like to get a list of Post Offices. According to the documentation this should be done this way:
https://gwserver:9710/gwadmin-service/list/postOffice
But the result is:
<apiStatus xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<error>true</error>
<httpStatus>BAD_REQUEST</httpStatus>
<httpStatusCode>400</httpStatusCode>
<statusCode>56092</statusCode>
<statusMsg>No enum constant com.novell.gw.api.domain.DomainObjectType.POSTOFFI CE</statusMsg>
</apiStatus>
Listing domains, users, poas works as expected.

Not sure if the doc is correct or not, but it is /list/post_office not /list/postoffice
--Morris
>>> gehorvath<[email protected]> 12/18/2014 8:26 AM >>>
Hi,
I would like to get a list of Post Offices. According to the
documentation this should be done this way:
https://gwserver:9710/gwadmin-service/list/postOffice
But the result is:
<apiStatus xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<error>true</error>
<httpStatus>BAD_REQUEST</httpStatus>
<httpStatusCode>400</httpStatusCode>
<statusCode>56092</statusCode>
<statusMsg>No enum constant
com.novell.gw.api.domain.DomainObjectType.POSTOFFI CE</statusMsg>
</apiStatus>
Listing domains, users, poas works as expected.
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Order stuck at post office (not updating for about a week now)

I've placed an order last week ( Tales of Xillia ) and it was scheduled to be delivered last Wednesday.
The parcel has been stuck at the status "Parcel being transferred to local post office" since the 16th.
This has happened to me before once and basically, the CSR just resent the same product to me.
I was wondering if someone here could do the same in this case as well.
Thanks!

Hello karekano126,
Lost packages are the worst, aren’t they? While it certainly doesn’t happen very often, it can definitely ruin someone’s day, and I'm sorry for the disappointment this caused.
If an online order is reported to us as missing, we reach out to UPS on your behalf to start an investigation to determine where your package may be. This process may take a few days to conclude. I would hate for this to cause further frustration for you than it already has though, and I have sent you a private message so that we may discuss this further. To view it, please make sure you are logged into the forum and click on the envelope in the upper right-hand corner.
Thank you for posting,
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Reduce/Expire on post office - advice needed

My organization has (had) an email retention policy of 30 days for
email and 365 days for appointments.
We have been on legal hold for the last 3 years so I am looking at
roughly that amount of data that will need to be removed when we get
the green light to come off of hold from the legal folks. (I'm told
that is coming soon)
My question is how does the expire/reduce run most efficiently? Should
I just set my 30/365 days settings and let it run or does it run more
effiently (quickly) if I did something like 365/720 then stepped down
to the 30/365, which would require 2 passes through the post office.
I know from observing the initial implementation of the policy, it is
going to take more than a week to get everthing down to size. Also, I
will probably have to run this stand alone so I can start/stop it as
needed. We can't take too much of performance hit if I just start it
from the server and let it run.
Once I get the post office trimmed down, I'll be re-enabling the
nightly scheduled expire/reduce options for maintenence.
Any advice or recommendations are appreciated.
Mark

Hi Andy -
Thanks for the input. My industry (without getting too specific)
makes the rules but does not need to follow them if you read through
the lines
I've had discussions about archiving until I'm blue in the face. I
would get more traction discussing it with my dog.
The size of the post office is roughly 500 user at 380GB. I'll have
to research the lenght of the full contents check that runs on the
weekend. I like the idea of the three runs.
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:49:15 GMT, Andy Konecny
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, Mark wrote:
>> My organization has (had) an email retention policy of 30 days for
>> email and 365 days for appointments.
>That's quite short and might get you in legal trouble. It might be very
>worth your while to investigate archival tools such as GWAVA's Retain.
>
>>
>> My question is how does the expire/reduce run most efficiently? Should
>> I just set my 30/365 days settings and let it run or does it run more
>> effiently (quickly) if I did something like 365/720 then stepped down
>> to the 30/365, which would require 2 passes through the post office.
>> I know from observing the initial implementation of the policy, it is
>> going to take more than a week to get everthing down to size. Also, I
>> will probably have to run this stand alone so I can start/stop it as
>> needed. We can't take too much of performance hit if I just start it
>> from the server and let it run.
>
>How long does a full Contents analyze/fix take? You'll be in about that
>time frame. What I would do is start with a pass on cleaning up just
>trash, then just the appointments, then the mail. How big is this
>PostOffice? (#Users & GB/TB?) How many CPUs? If virtual, adding some
>more for this reduction would help.
>
>Was that initial implementation done from a stand alone system or agent
>based? And what that on the current hardware config?
>
>
>Andy Konecny
>KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
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Post office upset w/separate auto & non-auto postage reports for same job.

I am new to Business Objects Business Edition. I am not sure why sometimes I process an automated mailing and get one postage report showing both auto and non-auto, then run another and get two postage reports, one for auto and one for non-auto. The post office is always complaining that we shouldn't have two postage reports. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Diane,
When the Postage Statement Type Option is set to "By Mailing" a separate Postage Statement will print for each scheme that qualified for the presort (or for each entry point in Business Edition). By Mailing is the program default.
In order to print one postage statement for the entire job, change the Postage Statement Type to By Job as follows:
1. Select Print > Reports
2. Highlight the Postage Statement
3. Click Options
4. Under Type, choose By Job
5. Click Create minimum number of pages (if it is not all ready checked)
6. To save as a default click Default
7. Click Save current settings as default
8. Click OK
9. Click OK
Note: When setting this as a default it will change this job and be the new global default for new jobs. After May 14, 2007 rate case, and using 7.80c or later, the Postage Statement may be on three pages, not just two even when doing a By Job Statement.
Diane - If you are usng Presort you can make the change to the report by opening up the postage statement block and setting the report to by job instead of by mailing.
Thanks,
Kendra
Edited by: Kendra Vangundy on Dec 10, 2008 3:36 PM

Post office reporting in Unknown State

We have Groupwise Monitor reporting one of our post offices in an
uknownstate. This message is not sent continuously but when we check the PO
it is running fine. This PO is being monitored remotely over T1, is there
anything we can do to correct. We have tried to set up the SMNP monitoring
for that PO only and cannot get it to work.

[email protected] wrote:
> This PO is being monitored remotely over T1
Was this PO added manually? I have found that agents I add manually will
always show unknown after a restart of Monitor, and if I delete them and
readd they start working again. If this is your issue, then there is a bug
already logged for this.
Danita Zanre
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Clean up after post office deletion

I deleted a post office from a GW 8.02 server running mta, gwia, and one other post office. When it asked me if I wanted to delete file system for that po, I said yes. However when it attempted to delete the files it gave an error saying they would have to be cleaned up manually. The objects deleted fine and the system is otherwise ok but when I run rcgrpwise status I still see the old post office listed there as unused. My assumption is that I need to clean up gwha.conf by removing the old post office from the list and then remove the file system for the old post office. Is that all there is to it?
Thanks for any assistance.
Dan

Hey Dan,
Originally Posted by dlietz
The hypervisor is esxi 5.1. I just built the groupwise server vm, so right now it just has SLES 11.3 on it - I was planning to go away from OES since Groupwise no longer uses eDir objects. My plan was to go with ext3 for the file system.
Sure, that's a valid reasoning and ext3 should work fine. One could probably debate using XFS over ext3 when looking at native Linux filesystems for GroupWise.
One thing I normally do set when using ext3, besides the notaime parameter, is the time dependent check. I usually set that to 12 months. It's very annoying (and time consuming) to have the disk check kick in during a planned reboot.
Originally Posted by dlietz
... What I've read so far seems to indicate I can copy the entire Groupwise system to the new VM and point the upgrade process to the domain and post office and it will upgrade it. Is that correct?
Yes, correct. It is important to make sure the basic agent configuration is in working order (meaning the http pages for the agents have been enabled and LDAP server configuration and eDirectory sync is all set correctly and in working order before doing the upgrade). Even when moving from eDir, it's nice to have the upgrade routine be able to reconfigure those LDAP and sync bits correctly for 2014 before moving to a new directory.
Originally Posted by dlietz
So I'm thinking:
1. Patch current Groupwise to 8.03
You could do, but I don't see the need. You'll be moving to the 2014 anyway... 8.03 does nothing extra for that upgrade process.
Originally Posted by dlietz
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

Duplicate File IDs showing up in multiple post offices

We have come across a strange issue. Several users are missing their file IDs. We looked at the user databases and found duplicate file IDs spread across multiple post offices. Joe Smith might have file ID aba in Post Office One while Bob Jones would have the same file ID in Post Office Two. Is this normal? What would happen if we had to move a user from one post office to the other with a duplicate ID.? How can we fix this?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chris Toledo

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Originally Posted by Dave Parkes
Yep, it is possible for that to happen, FIDs should only be unique within
a single post office.
As for moving a user, if their current fid already exists within the
target po, then they will get a new unused one as part of the move process.
So, there is nothing really to fix
Cheers Dave
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Error 8f03 starting post office

I created a new post office on a SLES10sp3/OES2sp3 server already running the primary domain, gwia, another po and webaccess. But I'm having a problem getting it to start using the poa startup file. Here's the text from the console:
srv1:/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin # ./gwpoa --show --home @hsstudpo.poa &
[1] 12179
Warning: Running as root
srv1:/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin # An invalid configuration option was detected (8F03).
Command Line Option: media/nss/VOL1/grpwise/hsstudpo
A required file or directory is missing (DF10).
home/wphost.db.
[1]+ Done ./gwpoa --show --home @hsstudpo.poa
The home switch in the hsstudpo.poa file looks like this:
--home /media/nss/VOL1/grpwise/hsstudpo
The POA will start just fine if I use the command:
srv1:/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin # ./gwpoa --show --home /media/nss/VOL1/grpwise/hsstudpo &
I've tried shortening the path to the post office thinking maybe it was some weirdness with the 8 character issue, but that didn't make a difference.
I'm stumped.
The only thing I can think of that may be causing this is when I first created the PO object in C1, I forgot to change the POA type from Netware to Linux. I have since fixed that however. Would a domain rebuild be required?
Thanks for any assistance.
Dan

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