Novell GROUPWISE 7 - MULTI-SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION, Manual

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recipients from the other system. For information, continue with Exchanging Information Between
Systems .
3.6 Exchanging Information Between Systems
Exchanging information between two GroupWise systems enables users in either system to use the
Address Book when addressing messages to users in the other system. To exchange information,
you can choose from the following methods:
External System Synchronization: You can use the External System Synchronization feature to
automatically exchange domain, post office, user, resource, and distribution list information
between the two systems. After the initial exchange of information, any information that changes in
one system is automatically propagated to the other system in order to synchronize the information
in that system. This is the recommended method for exchanging information between two systems.
For information about setting up synchronization between two external systems, see “
External
System Synchronization ” in “ GroupWise System Operations ” in “ System ” in the GroupWise 7
Administration Guide .
Manual Creation of Information: You can manually create the other systems’ objects (domains,
post offices, users, resources, and distribution lists) as external objects in your GroupWise system.
When doing so, the names of your external objects need to exactly match the names of the objects as
defined in their system. Domains in your system link to the external domains indirectly through the
first external domain you created (this is the external domain that one of your system’s domains has
a direct link to). The advantage to this method is that you can choose which of the other system’s
domains, post offices, users, resources, and distribution lists you want included in your system. The
disadvantage is that there is a great amount of administrative overhead involved in creating all the
objects and, after the objects are created, no automatic synchronization takes place so updates must
be made manually.
3.7 Message Flow Between External Domains
Because a link to an external domain is really just a way of defining a link between a domain on
your local GroupWise system and a domain on another GroupWise system, the flow of messages is
identical to the flow of messages between any two GroupWise domains. For more information about
message flows between domains, choose the type of link that you want to know more about in
“
Message Delivery to a Different Domain ” in the GroupWise 7 Troubleshooting 3: Message Flow
and Directory Structure .