Groupmax Version 3 0310e (English)

Other facilities for system management have been enhanced.

The following system management facilities are now supported in addition to Groupmax System Manager - TCP/IP and Groupmax System Agent - TCP/IP.

- Enhanced server setup wizard (for Windows NT only)
- Backup while the server is running
- Corresponding to domain name system (DNS)
- Security for checking password settings
- Enhanced batch registration utility for address information
- Facility for checking size of mail or a bulletin board news item to be sent
- Enhanced workflow management monitor

- Enhanced server setup wizard (for Windows NT only) [Top of this page]

In this version, the server setup wizard, which sets up the environment of server programs on a server machine and starts the server programs in a batch, enables you to also change the server program configurations. The server setup wizard can also now be used on more kinds of server programs.

Changing already set up server configurations
When Groupmax server programs are already set up on the server machine, you can use the server setup wizard to add server programs onto the server machine and to change the settings of the existing server programs.
- Applicable systems:
  Only systems constructed by version 03-10 of the server setup wizard. You can use the 03-10 server setup wizard to change the configuration settings of only server programs originally set up with the 03-10 server setup wizard.
- Note that there are some exceptions on some of the configuration settings you can change. (In the table below, the setting items marked with L and N cannot be changed by the server setup wizard.)
Enhancing server programs with the server setup wizard
This table outlines the server programs whose configuration settings you can change with the server setup wizard.

Applicable programs		Supported facilities
Product name	Version	DB settings	Initializing DBs	Changing DB configuration	Setting up environment	Changing environment	Starting	Registering user IDs
Object Server	03-10	Y	Y	Y	Y	-	Y	Y
Electronic Address Book	03-10	Y	Y	L	Y	N	Y	Y
Electronic Mail and Bulletin Boards	03-10	Y	Y	L	Y	N	Y	Y
Document Manager	03-10	Y	Y	L	Y	N	Y	Y
Workflow	03-10	Y	Y	L	Y	L	Y	Y
Schedule Manager	03-10	-	-	-	Y	N	Y	Y
Facility Registration	03-10	-	-	-	Y	N	Y	Y
SMTP option for e-mail	03-10	-	-	-	Y	N	Y	Y
Agent	03-10	-	-	-	Y	L	Y	Y

Y: Supported.
L: You cannot specify values smaller than the values already specified.
N: You cannot alter values that were already specified.
-: Not supported.

When you use the server setup wizard to set the configurations of server programs, you cannot use version 03-00 programs and version 03-10 programs together on a server machine. All the server programs on the server machine should be of the same version.

Notes

The applicable platforms are Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 only.
Starting with version 03-10 of the server setup wizard, you can also use the wizard to set the configurations of Groupmax Mail - SMTP and Groupmax Agent Server.

Backup while the server is running [Top of this page]

You can back up user data in Groupmax servers, such as the data in mailboxes, while the program running. You need not stop the server program for backup, so client programs, such as mail, can be used on a 24 hours a day. Note, however, that you need to stop the service to acquire full backup once in a week or once a month in real operation.

We provide a sample file, showing how to take backups while the server is running, that users can customize on their own to back up server data.
Using JP1/Script programs for backups helps operate the system with higher availability.

Facilities you can back up

In addition to backing up electronic mail (as mentioned above), this version allows you to back up the following facilities while the system is running:

Object Server
Electronic Address Book
Electronic Mail and Bulletin Board
Document Manager
Schedule Manager
Facility Registration

We recommend stopping the server to back up workflow user data. (We do plan to support this backup functions for workflows in the future.)

- Managing by the domain name system (DNS) [Top of this page]

In version 03-10, a new server product is supported to for management by the domain name system.
This facility enables you to better manage the IP addresses of the Groupmax version 3 servers by a name server.

The DNS (Domain Name System) is a mechanism for translating domain names into IP addresses widely used in IP networks, typically the Internet, to resolve mail addresses or the URLs of web servers.

Notes

A domain name can be up to 255 characters long, in accordance with the RFC 1034 standard. (The label name of a domain separated with periods (.) can be 63 characters long.)
The DNS operation of Groupmax is based on the concept that one domain name has only one IP address. One domain name cannot have several IP addresses.
The facilities corresponding to DNS cannot be applied to the version 1 and version 2 clients.
To use DNS, all the address servers should be version 03-10. In an environment where other versions are mixed, you cannot use DNS.

Note that there are some limitations on using DNS not covered here for lack of space. For details, contact Hitachi (send e-mail to the address on the bottom of this page).

Programs for which DNS is supported
DNS is supported for all the programs shipped as Groupmax Version 3. 16-bit clients are not supported for DNS.

Security for checking password settings [Top of this page]

In version 03-10, the following facilities are now supported:

A user can be prohibited from using the same character string as his or her user ID and password.
A user can be prohibited from specifying a password shorter than a specified minimum length.

You need version 03-10 or a later version of the client program to display messages about this function's checking of client users.

Enhanced batch registration utility for address information [Top of this page]

Supporting mailbox capacity settings

You can specify mailbox capacities as an option when using the gmaxchk, gmaxset and gmaxexp batch registration utility commands provided by Address Server to register, move, change or output the information of user or organization.

Facility for checking the size of mail or a bulletin board news item to be sent [Top of this page]

You can limit the size of a mail item or news item sent from a client by the server side.

This facility checks the size of a mail item or news item sent from a client at the time when it is stored into the server. This facility is useful, for example, to protect receive mailboxes from a large size mail sent by mistake.

The size of the mail or news item is checked after the data is transferred from the client to the server; therefore, the load on the network between the server and the client for sending data cannot be reduced.
You need version 03-10 or a later version of the client program to display messages about this function's checking of client users.

Enhanced workflow management monitor [Top of this page]

In Groupmax Workflow Monitor, you can delete user work logs in a multiserver environment.

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