Environment
Novell GroupWise 2014
Situation
Deleting a secondary domain will not go through and gets stuck in pending operations
Secondary domain server is gone, so the directories for the domain are also gone
How to delete a secondary domain in GroupWise 2014
Secondary domain server is gone, so the directories for the domain are also gone
How to delete a secondary domain in GroupWise 2014
Resolution
In some cases, the domain that needs to be deleted needs to be rebuilt before we can remove it.
Directions for a SuSE server
Directions for a SuSE server
- Launch a terminal session
- Type gwadminutil rebuild -n <name of domain> -d <path to primary domain> -o <path for rebuilt db>
- Type gwadminutil release -d <path to rebuilt domain> -p <path to primary domain> -n <name for temp system>
- Log into the GroupWise Administration web console
- Select System | External System Synchronization and delete the newly created system
- Navigate to Domains and select the Domain that will now be showing as external
- Click More | Delete and the domain should now delete properly
Directions for Windows server
- Launch a terminal session
- Type gwadminutil rebuild /n <name of domain> /d <path to primary domain> /o <path for rebuilt db>
- Type gwadminutil release /d <path to rebuilt domain> /p <path to primary domain> /n <name for temp system>
- Log into the GroupWise Administration web console
- Select System | External System Synchronization and delete the newly created system
- Navigate to Domains and select the Domain that will now be showing as external
- Click More | Delete and the domain should now delete properly
Cause
If databases or directories are missing when deleting objects from GroupWise Administration Console problems can occur trying to remove them