Has anyone configured Retain to connect to Reload instead of PO's. Is it a better solution than adding the agents to the PO servers? Is there complete documentation on how to make this connection?
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The documentation I have been reading says the best practice is to place the worker agents on the Post Office servers. Second, is build a separate server just for worker agents. Third, if you have less than 500 mailboxes, you can use the Retain server server. The docs do mention using Reload to pull the messages. I do not want to over complicate this installation, but because I have never used Retain before I really don't know if It can handle running all services from one server for 2800 mailboxes.
Well, you're right. I did not ask for your environment size.
However two of my Retain environments are universities. So they have to support more than 4000 mailboxes I think. But more important is how many "heavy" mailboxes do you have to support. I.e. do you have a lot of students which are "light" mailboxes? Usually students do not user GroupWise clients which causes smaller accounts and less dynamics.
Coming back to my example. Both universities are using one Retain server and no local agents. University A has three post offices, so we use only one "main" worker (and one for additional purposes or to read local GW archives). University B has more than 10 post offices; here we have decided to run 4 workers to support concurrent activities. University A runs a job once a week (9 - 10 hours), university B runs daily archive jobs which need only a few minutes.
Both universities are using Reload too. But Retain will work with POAs directly.
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