Scheduled Maintenance will not run on a GroupWise 6 post office.

(Last modified: 18Feb2003)

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fact

GroupWise 6 Shipping

GroupWise 6

GroupWise 6 Shipping code

Scheduled Events

Scheduled Events in the POA

symptom

Scheduled Maintenance will not run on a GroupWise 6 post office.

Thousands of .box files show up in the WPCSOUT/CHK directory under the post office.

cause

Whenever maintenance is run by a GroupWise 6 POA a record is created to track that event to its completion in the NGWCHECK.DB.  After the maintenance is completed this record is removed.  

fix

These issues have been fixed in GroupWise 6 Support Pack 1.

note

Development found that if the system abended while maintenance was running these records were not being removed from the NGWCHECK.DB, thus the next time a scheduled event should run it will not because the NGWCHECK.DB believes that maintenance is still in progress.

Another problem was found and resolved with Support Pack 1. This was a timing issue. The POA would start working on a user databases, then skip it and move on the next one with out finishing the first. This problem can be identified by lots of 0 KB *.ckl files in the WPCSOUT/CHK directory. When the maintenance runs successfully all of the *.ckl files are complied into one file and sent to the administrator.

The other clue can be found in the MMDDCHK.LOG file at the root of the post office directory. This directory keeps track of the Jobs that are sent to the NGWCHECK.DB. For each job entered you will see:

Job [4] added into GWCheck database
GWCheck database pathname: [SERVER\VOLUME:/PODIR\ngwcheck.db]
Date and time: 10/10/01 21:00
Return code (hex): 0000

When the job is completed you will see:

Job [4] removed from GWCheck database
GWCheck database pathname: [SERVER\VOLUME:/PODIR\ngwcheck.db]
Date and time: 10/10/01 21:00
Return code (hex): 0000

Additional logging can be written to this file by using the WPTEST support option when running the scheduled maintenance.

document

Document Title:	Scheduled Maintenance will not run on a GroupWise 6 post office.
Document ID:	10063151
Solution ID:	NOVL51228
Creation Date:	20Jun2001
Modified Date:	18Feb2003
Novell Product Class:	Groupware

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