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Troubleshooting GroupWise Agents on OES 2 Linux (BTW -GroupWise 8 Rocks!)

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19 February 2009 - 2:28pm
Submitted by: noneal

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Since the release of GroupWise 8 the upgrades are off the chain! Everyone is wanting to dig into the new client and bring our world into 1 interface! With that being said, it's also no secret that upgrades bring troubleshooting...especially on Linux where many of us are still ramping up to speed.

  • Make sure that you realize that there is already Hot Patch 1 for GroupWise 8 on OES2 SP1. - CRITICAL Patch especially if your system resides on an NSS Volume
  • If you have an agent that will not load yet you cannot see it....because they do not load graphically anymore, do this: the following command will load them in a graphical window on the OES2 Server.

Example - gwia

/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin/gwia --show @gwia.cfg

poa

/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin/gwpoa --show @mypo.poa

Remember that your configs are now stored at:

/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/share

Get them working and then go back to running them as designed with a simple rcgrpwise start.

We also need to teach ourselves to look at the agents via a web browser, these http ports can be edited with ConsoleOne on the properties of each agent.

poa - 7180
mta - 7181
gwia -9850

Thanks, and I pray this makes your upgrade process a little less painful. GroupWise 8 Rocks!


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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Web Agents View in the Client

Submitted by hparsons on 23 February 2009 - 5:51pm.

You said "We also need to teach ourselves to look at the agents via a web browser". Why not take it a step further, and use the new web panel feature in GroupWise 8, and put the monitoring screens right in the client. I did so with mine, along with a tab on nav bar. I rprobably check the screens now more frequently than on NetWare (when I just happened to be at the server, or looking for a problem)

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Excellent idea

Submitted by noneal on 27 February 2009 - 9:46am.

I'll do just that! Thanks for the tip!

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