8.1 Activating Disaster Recovery mode

If the Production GroupWise server has gone down it is obvious that it isn't coming backup anytime soon, it is time to activate GroupWise Disaster Recovery's Disaster Recovery mode.

This involves enabling Disaster Recovery Failover Mode on the GroupWise Disaster Recovery server and changing the A Record of the post office server on the DNS.

  1. Browse to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Web Administration Console.

  2. Click on the Post Office profile ambulance to engage Disaster Recovery Failover Mode.

  3. Go to the DNS and change the DNS A Record IP address of the post office server to the IP address of the GroupWise Disaster Recovery server post office profile you have activated. Clients currently logged in will have to log out and log back in.

  4. If you have a secondary GWIA, change the DNS MX Record IP address to the IP Address of the GroupWise Disaster Recovery GWIA.

  5. Test mail flow with a client.

  6. Contact GroupWise Technical Support for assistanceor GroupWise Disaster Recovery Technical Support.

  7. Fix your production GroupWise Server.