Novell GroupWise 5.5 Administration Part 3 - System Maintenance

The GroupWise System Administration curriculum is designed to teach students the fundamentals of administering a GroupWise system. This final course in the 3-part series will give students the skills and knowledge needed to perform routine GroupWise 5.5 administration tasks as well as client and database maintenance.

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Duration: 8 hours Training Presented in: English

Audience

System Administrators who are responsible for the setup maintenance and administration of a corporate groupware communication installation. Students should have administration experience with NetWare Administrator and NDS. They should also have an understanding of TCP/IP protocols and IP addressing including DNS and DHCP. In addition they should have taken the first two parts in this series (courses 81605-06) prior to taking this course. This series is based on Novell course 350 and will help Novell CNA and CNE certification candidates prepare for exam 50-633.

Objective

• Identify GroupWise system objects and how to delete objects.
• Identify accounts page options nicknames and internal entities.
• Identify renaming and moving GroupWise mailboxes.
• Identify database maintenance.
• Identify database maintenance issues database maintenance and Standalone GroupWise Check.
• Identify client maintenance.
• Identify scheduling maintenance events and maintaining directory store databases.
• Identify backing up databases and domain databases.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Administration Tasks: Objects

• Assign a GroupWise account to an NDS user using NetWare Administrator.
• Match the GroupWise Account page options with their descriptions.
• Create a GroupWise nickname for a user using NetWare Administrator.
• Create a GroupWise external entity using NetWare Administrator.
• Create a GroupWise distribution list using NetWare Administrator.
• Create a resource object using NetWare Administrator.
• Define resource properties for a resource object using NetWare Administrator.
• Match the GroupWise View options with their functions.
• Delete a GroupWise post office account using GroupWise View.
• Move a group of library documents using the GroupWise client.
• Delete a group of library objects using Mass Document Operations.
• Delete a nickname from a Novell Directory Services (NDS) tree using NetWare Administrator.
• Delete a GroupWise resource from a Novell Directory Services (NDS) tree using NetWare Administrator.

Unit 2: Administration Tasks: Mailbox

• Identify the system elements that are affected by renaming a GroupWise mailbox.
• Rename a GroupWise mailbox using NetWare Administrator.
• Sequence the steps of the GroupWise mailbox renaming process.
• Identify the tasks to be performed when preparing to move a mailbox.
• Identify the considerations for determining the number of user mailboxes to move at one time.
• Move a GroupWise mailbox from one post office to another post office using NetWare Administrator.
• Sequence the steps of the database information change process.
• Sequence the steps of the database movement process.
• Sequence the steps of the message movement process.

Unit 3: Database Maintenance

• Identify the categories of GroupWise database maintenance.
• Identify the problems that occur with databases.
• Identify the symptoms of Mailbox/Library Maintenance problems.
• Identify the maintenance functions of the POA.
• Access the Mailbox/Library Maintenance tool using GroupWise View.
• Match the User/Resource Maintenance actions with their functions.
• Match the Library Maintenance actions with their functions.
• Match the additional maintenance options with their functions.
• Perform maintenance on a GroupWise user object using the Analyze/Fix Expire/Reduce and Mailbox Statistics actions.
• Identify the situations in which GWCHECK is to be used.
• Identify the steps of the GWCHECK process.
• Run GWCHECK from the Windows Start menu.

Unit 4: Client Maintenance

• Schedule an event for the POA using NetWare Administrator.
• Identify how scheduled events can be used to fix database problems.
• Match the system maintenance action with its purpose.
• Identify the index maintenance issues for a GroupWise system.
• Rebuild an index using NetWare Administrator.
• Back up a post office using the GWBACK32.EXE procedure.
• Identify the situations in which you use DBCOPY.EXE to back up database files.
• Identify the situations in which you use XCOPY to restore directories.
• Archive and delete documents from a library in a post office using NetWare Administrator.
• Identify the reasons to move archived documents to a backup medium.
• Determine where a document has been archived using the GroupWise client.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

• Novell GroupWise 5.5 Administration Part 1 - System Fundamentals
• Novell GroupWise 5.5 Administration Part 2 - Clients and Post Offices