Occasionally, it is necessary to perform maintenance tasks on the GroupWise® domain or post office databases. The frequency depends on the reliability of your network and your own sense of how often problems are likely to occur.
Validate Database
Checks a domain or a post office
database to determine if there are any physical problems with the
database. If there are any physical problems, you can rebuild or recover
the database to correct them. You should validate the data in the domain
and post office databases on a regular basis. This process takes just a
few minutes and does not interrupt normal operation. The frequency can
vary depending on the size of your system and the number of changes you
make to users, resources, and distribution lists.
Recover Database
Corrects physical problems, but does not
update incorrect information. After you perform a Recover Database
operation, you can update information by synchronizing the database.
GroupWise tries to recover from any errors it encounters in a domain or post
office database. However, if you see an internal database error or if GroupWise
sends you a message about a database error, you should recover or rebuild the
database.
Rebuild Database
Corrects physical problems and updates
information in a domain or post office. It is useful to rebuild a database
when you have many user deletions or when GroupWise information has been
lost.
Reclaim Unused Space
Reclaims unused database space. As
you add information to a GroupWise system, the domain and post office
databases increase in size. If you delete information, the space that was
created in the databases for the information is not immediately released.
Rebuild Indexes for Listing
Rebuilds the address book index listing for the domain and post office index
databases. Each domain and post office database contains indexes that are used
to determine the order of the address book: the system index, the domain index,
and the post office index. If the indexes for listing system, domain, and post
office are not the same, you should rebuild the domain database's indexes. When
you rebuild the indexes, the current system index is used.
Refresh Views
Updates the post office with the latest view files from the software distribution
directory assigned to the post office. When you use AutoUpdate to force Windows*
client software updates, the AutoUpdate process makes one attempt to update
the view files. If that attempt fails, the problem is recorded in the POA log
file and you can then use the Refresh Views option to distribute the latest
view files to the post office.
Sync Primary with Secondary
Updates the primary domain database from a secondary domain database. This process
usually takes place automatically. However, if the link between the two domains
has been down, you might want to run the synchronization manually. Any records
the secondary domain owns, such as post offices or users, are replicated from
the secondary domain database to the primary domain database.
Convert Secondary to Primary
Promotes a secondary domain to a primary domain in the GroupWise system. When
you do this, the current primary domain is demoted to a secondary domain. The
MTA and POA agents must be running to perform this conversion.
Release Secondary
Removes a secondary domain from the
current system and creates a new system with the released domain becoming
a new primary domain in its own single-domain system. You must release a
secondary domain before you can merge it into another system.
Merge External Domain
Merges an external domain into the
current system as a new secondary domain. The external domain must be the
only domain in the other system.
Replace Primary With Secondary
Recovers a lost primary
database by copying information from a secondary domain database. This is
the best method of restoring the primary domain if you are confident your
secondary domain is in sync with the system. A connection to the secondary
domain is required and you must also shut down the primary domain MTA.
Run
Executes the selected options on the GroupWise
system.
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