Use the GroupWise Monitor Installation Worksheets to record your decisions about how to install GroupWise Monitor. The topics in this section present the required information in a convenient planning sequence. The Installation Worksheets organize the information in the order in which you need it during installation.
For additional assistance in planning your GroupWise installation, visit the GroupWise Best Practices Wiki.
IMPORTANT:If you plan to install GroupWise Monitor in a clustered server environment, refer to the GroupWise 2012 Interoperability Guide as you plan your Monitor installation.
The Monitor Application can be installed to a Web server on Linux or Windows. See Section 7.2, Monitor System Requirements for supported Web servers.
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Under , mark whether you plan to install the Monitor Application to a Linux or Windows Web server. |
After reviewing Section 7.1, GroupWise Monitor Overview and the system requirements listed in Section 7.2, Monitor System Requirements, plan where you want to install the Monitor components in your system.
The Monitor Agent runs on Linux and Windows. On Linux, the Monitor Agent runs as a daemon. On Windows, the Monitor Agent runs as an application. The Monitor Agent cannot be run as a Windows service.
If you want to install the Monitor Agent and the Monitor Application on the same server, you can install them at the same time. If you want to install them on different servers, you must run the Monitor Installation program twice, once for each server. For example, you might want to install the Monitor Application on Linux for use with a Linux Web server, but you might want to install the Monitor Agent on Windows so that you can use its server console, which is not available on Linux.
The Monitor Agent needs to communicate with an MTA. If possible, install the Monitor Agent on the same server where a domain and MTA are already located. If you want to install the Monitor Agent on its own server, consider creating a domain on that server specifically for helping the Monitor Agent communicate with the rest of your GroupWise system.
The installation directory for the Monitor Agent depends on the platform:
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The Linux Monitor Agent is automatically installed to /opt/novell/groupwise/agents. |
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The default installation directory is c:\Program Files\Novell\GroupWise Server\Monitor. |
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Under , mark the platform (Linux or Windows) where you plan to install the Monitor Agent. Under , specify the directory on the Linux or Windows server where you plan to install the Monitor Agent software. |
The Monitor Application integrates with your Web server to pass agent status information gathered by the Monitor Agent to your Web browser for display in the Monitor Web console. The location of the Monitor Application files that are installed depends on the Web server that it is being integrated with. The default Web server paths vary by platform:
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Under , select the type of Web server you want to use with Monitor, and specify the directory path to the Web server root directory. On Windows, if the Internet Information Server services more than one Web site, specify the Web site where you want to install the Monitor Application. |
As you install the Monitor Agent, you are prompted to supply the configuration information described in the following sections:
The Monitor Agent can monitor both GroupWise agents and Messenger agents. In addition, the Monitor Agent works in conjunction with the GroupWise High Availability service on Linux to automatically restart GroupWise and Messenger agents that go down unexpectedly
NOTE:It is not necessary to have an entire GroupWise system installed in order for the Monitor Agent to monitor just the Messenger agents. For more information, see Setting Up the High Availability Service
in Installing a Novell Messenger System
in the Novell Messenger 2.2 Installation Guide.
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Under , mark whether you want to monitor a GroupWise system, a Messenger system, or both. |
The Monitor Agent communicates with the Monitor Application and with monitored agents by way of TCP/IP.
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Under , record the IP address or DNS hostname of the Linux or Windows server where you plan to install the Monitor Agent software. Use the default port number of 8200 unless that number is already in use on that server. If you are installing the Monitor Application on a different server from where you are installing the Monitor Agent, record the same information under on the GroupWise Monitor Application Installation Worksheet. |
For a complete list of default port numbers used by the GroupWise agents, refer to GroupWise Port Numbers
in the GroupWise 2012 Administration Guide.
The Monitor Agent can gather information about the locations of GroupWise agents to monitor by reading from a domain database. Using the gathered information, the Monitor Agent can display a list of monitored agents when you start it for the first time.
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Under , specify the directory path to a domain where a GroupWise 6.x or later MTA is running. |
Monitor Application configuration information is stored in a configuration file (gwmonitor.cfg), located in the following directories:
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/var/opt/novell/groupwise/monitor |
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c:\novell\groupwise\gwmonitor |
The default configuration information is sufficient for an initial Monitor Application installation. For more information about configuring the Monitor Application, see Configuring the Monitor Application
Monitor
in the GroupWise 2012 Administration Guide after you have installed the Monitor Application.