PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide 4.2 (Linux for Itanium)

13.1 Functional Overview

PRIMECLUSTER Wizard for MailServer is a software product that enables the use of the mail server (sendmail) on a PRIMECLUSTER system. This software monitors the mail server and allows for automatic rebooting of the mail server or failover of the operational node if an error is detected.

Startup and stop control

PRIMECLUSTER Wizard for MailServer enables the automatic start and stop of sendmail, imap, and pop according to the state transition of the cluster application.

Monitoring

The sendmail, imap, and pop processes can be monitored.

Also, by establishing a connection with the network port that is used by sendmail, imap, and pop, the availability of communication can be monitored.

Environment setup

The environment setup wizard for running mail server on PRIMECLUSTER allows you to configure a mail server cluster environment easily and safely.