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Integration with an Exchange Server Cluster

The CA DataMinder Exchange server agent can integrate with an Exchange cluster. The deployment procedure is simple, and requires only that the server agent and policy agent hub are installed on each cluster node.

Note: CA DataMinder integration with Exchange clusters has been tested with Exchange Server 2003 on a two node cluster.

1. In a clustered Exchange environment, install the CA DataMinder Exchange server agent and policy engine hub on the primary node. The installation and configuration procedures are exactly the same as for a standard deployment.
2. Now install the Exchange server agent and policy engine hub on the secondary (and any additional) nodes. The server agent and hub must be configured exactly the same as on the primary node!

   Specifically, the hubs on each cluster node must use the same credentials to access remote policy engines (set with the wgnphub -SetCredentials command) and have identical registry values. For example, each hub uses the same pool of active and standby policy engines. Similarly, each Exchange server agent must have identical registry values.

3. Ensure that each hub service is correctly configured and running.
4. This completes the deployment. Now if the primary Exchange node fails over, email processing switches automatically to the Exchange server agent and policy engine hub on the secondary cluster node. In effect, CA DataMinder is now integrated with a single Exchange virtual server.

More information:

How to Deploy the Exchange, Domino or IIS SMTP Agent