Who should do this: A Network/GroupWise Administrator
with full file system rights to all domains, post offices and gateways
and also with all required NDS rights, which will vary depending on the
design of your GroupWise system
When: After a complete backup of the
GroupWise system is made, a top down rebuild of GroupWise should be done as
regular maintenance. This may also be required if you have an abend that
may have corrupted the system… or if things are generally just messed up and
you seem to run into one problem after another.
What’s needed: In
order to perform the top down rebuild you’ll need NWAdmin, the stand-alone
version of GWCheck, and all GroupWise agents and gateways must be shut
down
How: 1. Rename all WPDOMAIN.DB files in any and all domain
directories
2. Rebuild all Domains, starting with the primary, by
following these steps in each
a. Highlight the domain object in NDS
view b. Select Tools/GroupWise Utilities/System Maintenance c. Select
“Rebuild Database” d. Click RUN
3. Rename any and all WPHOST.DB files
in all post office directories. Remember, the agents have all been shut
down, and no users are accessing these files now.
4. Rebuild all Post
Offices, following these steps for each:
a. Highlight the post office
object in the NDS view b. Select Tools/GroupWise Utilities/System
Maintenance c. Select “Rebuild Database” d. Click RUN
Once this
completes, you may reload the agents and allow people access to their
mailboxes.
5. Now, using either NWAdmin or Stand alone GWCheck,
perform structural rebuilds of the post offices
a. Using
NWAdmin i. Select the post office in NDS view ii. Select Tools/GroupWise
Utilities/Mailbox/Library Maintenance iii. Select Structural Rebuild from
the pull down iv. Click RUN
b. Using GWCheck
i. Select the path
to the post office and type in the name of that same post office ii.
Select User/Resource and type the word “All” in the box below iii. Select
Structural Rebuild from the pull down iv. Click RUN v. When that completes
(NOTE: This step will be a slow one), go back to the pull down and select
Analyze and Fix vi. Deselect Structure, select Contents and Fix
Problems vii. Click RUN
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