Sun Java Communications Suite questions

Hi all! This is my first post to these boards so please excuse any board fobars.
Anyway, I have been charge with replacing our existing mail system based on POSTFIX, IMAP and SMTP with a better solution and have come to Sun Java Communications Suite as an option.
I notice the software can be downloaded for free, but there isn't any obvious mention of end-user costs. Are there any?
Second, what is the best way to back up the system each night and weekend. I have tried doing a search in Yahoo! and Google but haven't really come up with an answer. Can I back up individial mailboxes and objects with them or must I backup only the system as a whole?
Thanks for any help!
Mark

Yes it has shared folders and you can set up email lists. For instance I have our hylafax fax server just convert the incoming fax and put it in a public company folder that everyone has read access to. Also I have a mailing list that when you send to the address it goes to all employees and you can add the ability for an outside email address like [email protected] rights to send mail to it. The graphical interface works well but you'll want to make your own service packages which isn't hard to do. I really like using commadmin to create my users over the delegated admin but that’s just me.
Oh yea I also have a public mail folder I use for corp documents. I just email the docs into that folder.
Calendar server is great. The outlook connector works great.
Plus if you’re going to run it on Solaris 10 you get all the great functionality of that operating system for instance I have my whole mail server running on a solaris zone which resides on a zfs filesystem.
Which makes it extremely easy to back up or clone and run experiments or updates something goes wrong just rollback. ZFS is truly the best file system out. Solaris is so awesome it was able to keep running even when one of my cheap xeon processors was running in a degraded state. Solaris Fault manager is a god send and they don’t even market it really. fmadm faulty has saved my butt many times.
Solaris 10 + commsuite = Little downtime and tons of power.
Edited by: mark42324 on Dec 4, 2008 5:45 PM

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Some general questions about Sun Java Communications Suite

Hello Everybody,
We are a small group of individuals (2 Java developers and 1 Linux expert and Web Application developer), located in Germany.
We are fully new to �Solaris� and Sun Java Communications Suite and know, that it�s a highly professional software system for large scale deployment. However we plan to install (64 Bit version) and manage it in a small network environment, consisting of a Server (4 GB RAM, RAID 5, AMD Dual CPU) based on Solaris 10 (X86) and *20* clients based on Win XP, Solaris and Linux.
It�s a network of a non-profit organization, providing social services to local society.
At clients we will use the Communications Express and the needed services are: Calander, Mail and Address book. (no need of Outlook Connector, Instant Messaging, Document Management, etc.)
Our long-term aim is - after learning of professional architecting, deployment and management of Communications Suite - to provide integration and development services to organizations (schools and small / medium sized Business) and public in cooperation with ISP or infrastructure-providers like Sun Microsystems.
Now, our main questions are:
*1.-* Is the Server phy. recourse enough to deliver the mentioned services of Communication Suite to 20 clients without problems?
*2.-* Isn�t Communications Suite oversized for such small network mentioned above or better, if we use another collaboration software system like Opengroupeware (http://opengroupware.org/) ? Opengroupeware is developed using non-java lang and therefore doesn�t match our strategy.
*3.-* Does the Communications Suite download-pack includes all necessary components of Sun Java ES (Directory Server, Access Manager, etc.) or these components are to be downloaded separately?
*4.-* What is the difference between the Sun Java System Messaging Server and the Sun Java System Message Queue?
We appropriate very much your answers and any further useful information regarding our project.
Thanks
Asghar

1> I believe your hardware can support 20 users (you might need to tune the Web Server heap size) - I had a Sparc 2x450mhz w/ 2GB of ram supporting 50+ users quite comfortably - with roughly half using POP and the other half IMAP/webmail. Ideally though, for best performance you would want to break up the main servers (LDAP, WEB, and MS) between hosts) - probably not necessary for 20 users. Having all on one machine simplifies things too (but also makes it a single-point-of-failure). Your disk obviously is important, the faster the better - that it's redundant is also nice - larger deployments might use much fancier storage systems to provide speed and redundancy, and use an the App Server instead of the Web Server as a container for Comms Express.
2> I don't think it's "oversized" - might you mean overkill? In this case I don't think overkill is a bad thing. Why not have very capable software, even if you don't really need it -is how I see things.
3> I believe you get all you need in the download. Though I've never tried the 64bit version (which I am guessing is only really necessary for larger deployments where you want to obtain maximized performance for heavier loads). I recommend following the single host evaluation document to get the hang of the install.
4> I'm not sure - though the Messaging install I believe requires the MQueue stuff, I think it's sort of an API for messaging, also available separately, but used by JES Messaging system?
Good Luck,
s7

Performance in Sun Java Communication Suite 5 between Solaris 9 and 10

Somebody knows which is the best Operation System to deploy the Sun Java Communication Suite? in performance terms?
I have and old Sun Fire 280R with two 750 Mhz Processors, 3 GB Ram, and an A1000 Storage.
Thanks a lot,
Andres.

AYacopino wrote:
Somebody knows which is the best Operation System to deploy the Sun Java Communication Suite? in performance terms?Solaris 10 by far for several reasons:
-> improved overall performance (kernel/networking level)
-> ZFS for storage
-> dtrace for debugging
-> zones for the various components of the communication suite (http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0806/819-7663.html)
I have and old Sun Fire 280R with two 750 Mhz Processors, 3 GB Ram, and an A1000 Storage.I'm not sure how many users you are planning to provide access to but your RAM is going to be the bottleneck.
Regards,
Shane.

Sun Java Communication Suite 5 using example deployment not working

I download the sun java communication suite 5 for solaris sparc.
I have a sunfire 280r server with Solaris 9 9/05 HW s9s_u9wos_06b SPARC installed.
I follow the document 820-0086.pdf to try the product (deployment example), i succesfully installed the product using acasalud.com.ar as the domain.
The problem arises when i begin to verify the installation(page 16), i sucessfully start the web services but when i put:
http://fully-qualified-hostname:web-server-port/amconsole
Nothing happens, the amconsole url doesn't exists.
Somebody knows how to solve this?

I found this in the logs:
Web Server Admin command (/SUNWwbsvr7/bin/wadm) not found!|#]
[#|2007-12-13T17:53:02-03:00|WARNING|CommsSuite|JavaESInstall|_versionID=1.0;_th
readID=11;_SourceJavaFile=EntsysConfigurator;_SourceMethodName=executeCmd(cmd,en
vp,dir);_CommsSuiteMessageID=;_CommsSuiteResourceBundle=|
ldap_add: Already exists
ldap_add: Already exists
ldap_modify: Type or value exists
ldap_modify: No such attribute
ldap_modify: No such attribute
ldap_modify: No such attribute
ldap_modify: No such attribute
ldap_modify: Type or value exists
ldap_modify: Type or value exists|#]
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sSuiteMessageID=JavaES_ConfigIS24;_CommsSuiteResourceBundle=EntSysLoggingResourc
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Sun Java Comm Suite - Need Clarification of Licensing

Now that Sun has stripped out the email services from JES 5 and thrown them into another product, must I now pay to USE Sun Java Communication Suite or is the "licensing" strictly for support?
I must be a blithering idiot because for the life of me I cannot find the issue documented CLEARLY anywhere....."when you are ready to deploy" is a very vague term. I wish the marketing masters would use something like "Ok, it was free, now you have to pay" or "Feel free to use it, but if you want patches, etc. you have to fork over some money"
I guess the simple question is, will I violate the license agreement if I download and use the Sun Java Communications Suite without paying for a license?
Thanks,
Phil

Hi,
Now that Sun has stripped out the email services from
JES 5 and thrown them into another product, must I
now pay to USE Sun Java Communication Suite or is the
"licensing" strictly for support?Well I know you can't get support unless you pay for it :)
I must be a blithering idiot because for the life of
me I cannot find the issue documented CLEARLY
anywhere....."when you are ready to deploy" is a very
vague term. There is an underlying assumption here that running with unsupported software in a deployed environment is a bad idea (TM). This is basically saying the software is available for evaluation purposes.. which doesn't necessarily preclude from being available for production purposes... but it doesn't expressly include it either :)
I wish the marketing masters would use
something like "Ok, it was free, now you have to pay"
or "Feel free to use it, but if you want patches,
etc. you have to fork over some money"
I guess the simple question is, will I violate the
license agreement if I download and use the Sun Java
Communications Suite without paying for a license?When you install the software, the software licence agreement outlines the terms of 'permitted use' (section 3).
From my reading of the licence agreement, if you do not have an entitlement to the license (which I would guess you don't) then the software is for evaluation use.. which is defined as:
3(a) Evaluation Use. You may evaluate Software internally for a period of 90 days from your first use.
For any more clarification you may want to ask a Sun sales rep.
Regards,
Shane.

How to cooperate the current mail system with Sun Java Commnication Suite 5

Dear all and Shane,
Excuse me for bothering you again.
Due to time limited, I would like to know how to cooperate the current mail system with Sun Java Commnication Suite 5. I mean I would like to use current mail system (mailscanner + postfix + courier-IMAP + clamav + spamassassin + webmail) and use the outlook connector to connect to Sun Java COMMS 5 to share the calendar, contacts only.
Right now I have done the testing by using outlook, mac mail, thunderbird to share calendar,contacts via Sun Java COMMS 5 in Centos Linux 5.
My plan is as following
1. Sun Java Communication suites 5 server ( I called it comms5 ) will be in DMZ zone and will open the necessary ports in firewall.
2. I will create more than six sub domain name in Sun Delegate server and the necessary accounts within these domain names.
3. All messages will be transmitted via Postfix and clients will retrieve from Courier-IMAP
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Any suggestions will appreciate.
PS: Is it possible to classify the contacts in outlook address book ?
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GLOBAL ADDRESS BOOK
--Director
--and so on
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-----------CN02 EMAIL ADDRESS
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and so on
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-----------JP02 EMAIL ADDRESS
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and so on
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and Due to the user account is located in CN.BRANCH OFFICE, it will extend the CN.BRANCH OFFICE contacts level.
Excuse me for bad English, hope you can understand it.
Best Regards,
Bruce

Dogz wrote:
Due to time limited, I would like to know how to cooperate the current mail system with Sun Java Commnication Suite 5.
I mean I would like to use current mail system (mailscanner + postfix + courier-IMAP + clamav + spamassassin + webmail) and use the outlook connector to connect to Sun Java COMMS 5 to share the calendar, contacts only.Getting your current mail system to 'co-operate' in this way will require more time then simply migrating the accounts of users on the current mail system to the comm-suite-5 installation and making use of UWC for Webmail access and ClamAV/SpamAssassin integration within the messaging MTA.
Also the use of Outlook Connector with a non-Sun IMAP backend isn't supported, nor is the use of a non-Sun IMAP backend possible with UWC.
Right now I have done the testing by using outlook, mac mail, thunderbird to share calendar,contacts via Sun Java COMMS 5 in Centos Linux 5. Once again I should remind you that CentOS is not a supported platform for comm-suite-5
Regards,
Shane.

Question abt sun java identity suite

Hi all,
I gone through the product documentation of the sun java identity suite. But they didn't mention any where whether it supports on AIX operating system or not?
Can any one knows?
Thanks
Sekhar

yes!
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Sun Java Communications Sync Problem

hello,
I have windows VISTA and i installed "Sun Java Communications Sync" on it.
When i click in Outlook the "synchronize" tab then "Configure menu" to configure my calendar an Address Bokk settings, it gives me the error "Unable to login to synch engine".
If i open the program after installation from the program menu, it gives me "Invalid user name" error.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
stamford

lock123 wrote:
1) Contacts with birthday less then 1970 are stored in calendar server with birthday 1970 after synchronization from device.You cannot store contacts in the calendar server. The calendar server only stores events and tasks. Contacts are stored in the LDAP directory server.
Is there any workaround to resolve the problem? If you meant to say that events with a start-date of less then 1970 don't get synchronised, then no, there is no workaround. This is a fundamental limitation of Unix timestamps as used by the calendar server to represents event dates.
2)
To clarify, the problem with Cyrillic characters becoming corrupted occurs when you sync contacts which exists only on the windows mobile device to the server-side addressbook? --- Yes it is
Does this corruption occur if you synchronise a contact created on the server to the windows mobile client? ---- only birthday is wrong on pocket after syncThe birthday being incorrect is likely to be a different issues.
A quick search didn't reveal any existing reports of the behaviour you are seeing and I have no way to reproduce the problem myself to investigate further so I suggest once again logging a Sun support case for these two issues (birthday & Cyrillic character corruption).
Regards,
Shane.

Sun Java Communications Sync - VISTA

Hi,
Is there any version on Sun Java Communications Sync for VISTA ? because i installed it on VISTA it gives me an error, it does not start.

lock123 wrote:
1) Contacts with birthday less then 1970 are stored in calendar server with birthday 1970 after synchronization from device.You cannot store contacts in the calendar server. The calendar server only stores events and tasks. Contacts are stored in the LDAP directory server.
Is there any workaround to resolve the problem? If you meant to say that events with a start-date of less then 1970 don't get synchronised, then no, there is no workaround. This is a fundamental limitation of Unix timestamps as used by the calendar server to represents event dates.
2)
To clarify, the problem with Cyrillic characters becoming corrupted occurs when you sync contacts which exists only on the windows mobile device to the server-side addressbook? --- Yes it is
Does this corruption occur if you synchronise a contact created on the server to the windows mobile client? ---- only birthday is wrong on pocket after syncThe birthday being incorrect is likely to be a different issues.
A quick search didn't reveal any existing reports of the behaviour you are seeing and I have no way to reproduce the problem myself to investigate further so I suggest once again logging a Sun support case for these two issues (birthday & Cyrillic character corruption).
Regards,
Shane.

Oracle IAMS and UCS (Communications Suite) interoperability - is there any?

I am relatively new to Oracle IAMS, but had some experients with Sun IDM. It seems the two projects are quite different, with IDM being essentially a replicator of entered (or sucked-in) user metadata into slave repositories such as LDAP servers, databases, MSAD and automated human workflows. IAMS includes several LDAP servers of its own and relies on Oracle database for many of its components, and seems like a much more complex solution...
So the first short question is thus: is IAMS just a replicator of user account data from some authoritative source(s) into other repositories, or is it something much more that that (and can it work as such a replicator at all)?
Anyway, the bigger quest I'm facing is this: a customer wants the IAMS deployment to be the only place that stores information about user accounts, roles, policies, etc. This is considered sensitive data, and Oracle is trusted to store it, while other systems should not have their replicas but rather make queries into IAMS repository services whenever they want to process data for some user account, determine assigned roles to authorize some activity, etc.
One of these other systems is Oracle Unified Communications Suite (nee Sun Java Communications Suite), which relies on Sun/Oracle DSEE as the LDAP server to store its "user-group" data and lots of configuration data. IIRC the CommSuite documentation implied that other LDAP servers are not guaranteed to work, at least not for all types of data. For example, it was required to replicate data from MSAD into DSEE (with an IDM or with ISW), or set up pass-through auth via DSEE into MSAD, or maybe glue the two systems into a virtual LDAP service with DPS, etc.
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Ultimately, some mix of DSEE and IAMS might be representable by DSEE DPS as well, and seem enough like a DSEE instance for the OUCS components...
What is doable and possible in this scenario? What reasonable questions did I not know enough to ask? ;)
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//Jim Klimov

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Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 config. failed during installation

{color:#0000ff}Hi,
I have installed sun java communication suite 5 on a single host on sun solaris 10.
I have installed required packages and it works fine.
But as per organization need, I have to change domain name.
So i have uninstalled everything and tried to install again with new domain name.
I have made proper entries in hosts file and resolve.conf file.
But duing the first phase of installation only , i failed in configuring access manager 7.1
I have also cerate same scenario in my test environment, but everytime i face the same error.
and sun java access manager 7.1 fails in first stage of installation only.
So would like to know the proper installation procedure while i change the domain name on same hardware...
I have checked both installation logs & summary logs.
But no error, no failed , no severe.
Attached is the summary of installation logs.
Summary Logs :
Installation Summary Report
Install Summary
Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite : Installed
Sun Java(TM) System Web Server 7.0 : Installed, Configured
Java DB : Installed, Configure After Install
Sun Java(TM) System Message Queue 3.7 UR1 : Installed
Sun Java(TM) System Monitoring Console 1.0 : Installed, Configure After Install
Sun Java(TM) System Directory Preparation Tool : Installed
Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 : Installed, Configured
Sun Java(TM) System Access Manager 7.1 : Installed, Configuration Failed
Sun Java(TM) System Messaging Server 6.3 : Installed, Configure After Install
Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6 : Installed, Configure After Install
Communication Services Delegated Administrator : Installed, Configure After Install
Configuration Data
Sun Java(TM) System Web Server 7.0 :
Web Server Instance installation Directory : /var/opt/SUNWwbsvr7
Web Server installation Directory : /opt
Web Server Administration Server Host : RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Web Server Admin Server Mode : true
Web Server only CLI installation : false
Sun Java(TM) System Directory Preparation Tool :
Directory Preparation Tool Installation Directory : /opt/SUNWcomds
Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 :
Directory Server Installation Directory : /opt/SUNWdsee
Sun Java(TM) System Access Manager 7.1 :
Access Manager Installation Directory : /opt
Access Manager Protocol : http
Access Manager Port : 80
LDAP User ID : amldapuser
Administrator User ID : amAdmin
Web Container : WebServer
Access Manager Web Server Host Name : RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Web Server Instance Directory : /var/opt/SUNWwbsvr7/https-RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Web Server Port : 80
Access Manager Console Host (for Existing console) : RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Console Deploy URI : amconsole
Access Manager Password Deploy URI : ampassword
Access Manager Host : RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Console Port(for Existing console) : 80
Access Manager Services Deploy URI : amserver
Access Manager Cookie Domain List : .myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Common Domain Deploy URI : amcommon
Access Manager Directory Server Host Name : RADAGWMSG221
Access Manager Directory Server Host : RADAGWMSG221.myreliancemail.com
Access Manager Directory Server Port : 389
Access Manager Directory Root Suffix : o=rmail
Access Manager Directory Manager DN : cn=Directory Manager
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User Marker Object Class : inetorgperson
Organization Naming Attribute : o
User Naming Attribute : uid
Sun Java(TM) System Messaging Server 6.3 :
Messaging Server Installation Directory : /opt/SUNWmsgsr
Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6 :
Communications Express Installation Directory : /opt/SUNWuwc
Communication Services Delegated Administrator :
Communication Services Delegated Administrator Installation Directory : /opt/SUNWcomm
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Rushi-Reliance wrote:
Kindly let us know how to proceed further as we are waiiting some reply from your team.As I already advised in your previous posting (http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5359095), you are best off re-installing solaris from scratch and installing Communication Suite 6 update 1 if you cannot get Access Manager 7.1 configured.
Regards
Shane.

Sun Java System Connector for Microsoft Outlook 7.3 Update 1

Good Day,
Could somebody please advise me where I can download:
Sun Java System Connector for Microsoft Outlook 7.3 Update 1
Thanks,
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Gilbert_Gerber wrote:
I thought it is suppose to be part of Sun Java Communications Suite 6 update1?You can download it from the following location:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite6U1/Get+the+Software
Select the Download Link => Platform: Windows
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Sun java Messaging Server queries

Hi,
We are currently evaluating Sun java Communication suite.
There are some doubts we are having about the system.
1) How can an admin block incoming/ outgoing mail from the internet for a specified user or domain ?
2) how can an admin backup and restore all mailboxes in case of a disaster?
3) where can we find the physical location of the mailboxes?
We are using SunSolaris 9 on an UltrasparcIII server. The current setup is done using the single host setup guide.
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
zkhan wrote:
1) How can an admin block incoming/ outgoing mail from the internet for a specified user or domain ? Blocking incoming email for a specific email address/user can be performed a few ways e.g. adding a rule to the MTA mappings file, sieve filter rule, disable the user/domain in the directory (inetmailstatus: attribute) etc.
Blocking outgoing email isn't as simple unless you enforce SMTP authentication/UWC access only otherwise you cannot guarantee that a user hasn't 'forged' their email details (FROM: address).
Once again you can use the same methods to block outgoing email as incoming email.
2) how can an admin backup and restore all mailboxes in case of a disaster?Refer to the manuals on backup/restoring.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4428/6n6j42682?a=view
3) where can we find the physical location of the mailboxes?The mboxutil command will tell you the path e.g.
./mboxutil -lxp user/<uid>/*
Regards,
Shane.

Communications Suite 5

Hi,
We already have DS 6.2 deployed in our organization. We have moved from NIS to LDAP. Now we want to deploy Communications Suite 5.
I have been testing with the "Deployment Example: Sun Java Communications Suite 5 on a Single Host" (http://docs.sun.com/source/820-0086/index.html)
We built our own scripts for creating user accounts in LDAP.
I'm wondering if it's a requirement to Deploy the Communications Services Delegated Administrator 6.4 and SUN Java System Access Manager?
I'm also wondering if there are any tips for deploying Communications Suite 5 with Native LDAP and which user attributes need to be added for Communications Suite to work.

Delegated Administrator (DA) is not required but it does make life much simpler in terms of adding users to JCS.
DA has a CLI and a web interface so one could build out provisioning scripts using the CLI interface to get the best of both worlds.
If you don't want to use DA you do not have to but I would recommend looking at the Schema Guide (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4437) to figure out which attributes are required, etc
Access Manager is used if you want to provide single sign on for the web client Communications Express in terms of Messaging Server/Calendar Server.
If you don't need/want Communications Express then AM is optional for sure.
Delegated Administrator does need Access Manager I believe although I could be wrong about that off the top of my head.
It also depends on the schema choice you make (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0639) in terms of what tools are available for managing your users in JCS.

Howto license the Java ES or Communication Suite

Hi at all,
i hope someone can answer my question.
Do i have to get Licenses for running the Java Communication Suite in production envoirement ?
Understanding the Sun Licensing model is harder than setting up their software.
thanks for answers,
Matze
PS: Sorry for my bad english

Sorry for the delayed response.
The answer is no. You do not need a license to use the software in a production environment. Once you need assurance and support, Sun offers licensing and support plans for purchase.
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