32.1 Setting Up a New GroupWise System in a Heartbeat Cluster

The GroupWise Installation program walks you through setting up the primary domain and an initial post office owned by the primary domain. You might be creating your primary domain and initial post office in the same cluster resource group or in two different cluster resource groups. After you have created the primary domain and the initial post office, and then installed the GroupWise agents on multiple nodes in the cluster, you can create additional secondary domains and post offices as needed.

To set up the primary domain and initial post office for a new GroupWise system in a Heartbeat cluster:

  1. Start on the initial node where you want the domain directory to be mounted (Heartbeat Clustering Worksheet item 9).

  2. Make sure that ConsoleOne® is installed on the node.

    If necessary, you can download ConsoleOne for Linux from the Novell Product Downloads site. ConsoleOne is always installed in /usr/Consoleone.

  3. If necessary, mount the partition where you want to create the GroupWise software distribution directory (GroupWise Clustering Worksheet item 1).

  4. In the HA Management Client, start the EVMS container resource and the file system resource for the domain cluster resource group in order to mount the shared storage partition for the domain (GroupWise Clustering Worksheet item 2) and, if needed, mount the shared storage partition for the post office (GroupWise Clustering Worksheet item 4), where the primary domain and the initial post office for your new GroupWise system will be created.

  5. From the GroupWise 7 Administrator for Linux CD, run the GroupWise Installation program (install), as described in Starting the GroupWise Installation Program on Linux in Installing a Basic GroupWise System in the GroupWise 7 Installation Guide.

    IMPORTANT:Do not select the Configure GroupWise for Clustering option at this time.

  6. When you set up the software distribution directory, copy all of the agent software.

    Select Software dialog box

    Although this is not required when creating your initial domain and post office, it makes installation of the other GroupWise agents easier after you have created the primary domain and the initial post office.

  7. From the GroupWise Installation program, run ConsoleOne to set up your initial GroupWise system, as described in Using ConsoleOne to Create Your Basic GroupWise System in Installing a Basic GroupWise System in the GroupWise 7 Installation Guide.

  8. When providing the MTA and POA network address information, use their secondary IP addresses (GroupWise Clustering Worksheet item 3 for the MTA and item 5 for the POA).

    The information you provide is used to configure the MTA and POA eDirectory™ objects in the domain and post office even though you have not yet installed the agent software on any nodes in the cluster.

    Do not create users in the post office at this time.

  9. When you have finished creating the primary domain and the initial post office, click Finish to exit the GroupWise Installation program without installing the agent software from the GroupWise 7 Administrator for Linux CD.

    IMPORTANT:You will install the agent software from the software distribution directory that you just created, not from the CD.

  10. Skip to Running the GroupWise Installation Program on the Preferred Node.