Environment
Novell GroupWise 2014
Situation
Symptoms
gwadminservice on a secondary domain server fails
unable to start gwadminservice on a secondary domain server
unable to start gwadminservice on any server other than the primary domain server
Purpose
How to manually re-issue the certificate for domain and post office
gwadminservice on a secondary domain server fails
unable to start gwadminservice on a secondary domain server
unable to start gwadminservice on any server other than the primary domain server
Purpose
How to manually re-issue the certificate for domain and post office
Resolution
- Launch a terminal session to the server in question where the gwadminservice does not come up
- From the terminal session, type gwadminutil certinst -ca primary.mycompany.com:9710 -db /mnt/mail/secdom -a admin -p password
Replace primary.mycompany.com:9710 with the URL of the admin service on the primary domain server
Replace /mnt/mail/secdom with the location to secondary domain or post office on that server
Replace admin with the actual admin user
Replace password with the password for that user - Type rcgrpwise start gwadminservice