17.1 Understanding the Monitor Components

If you are not familiar with GroupWise Monitor, review GroupWise Monitor Overview in Installing GroupWise Monitor in the GroupWise 7 Installation Guide.

As you plan Monitor in a clustering environment, you must keep in mind that you will plan and set up two Monitor components:

You install the Monitor Agent on each node in the cluster. You install the Monitor Application to your Web server, which must not be clustered. This means that the Monitor Agent Web console at the following URL is always available, because it is part of the cluster:

http://secondary_IP_address:8200

However, the Monitor Web console at the following URLs are not available if the Web server is down:

Table 17-1 Monitor Web Console URLs

NetWare or Windows Web Server:

http://Web_server_address/gw/gwmonitor

Linux Web Server:

http://Web_server_address/gwmon/gwmonitor