Thursday, August 4, 2011

Enabling SSL for SOAP after the DataSync install

For whatever reason the Novell Support search engine failed to understand what I was asking it.  How hard is it to understand

How do you enable SSL on SOAP port for DataSync Mobility Pack AFTER the install?

You may be wondering why I'd want to do this, why not just enable SOAP to begin with.  Well, because I have clients who can't have their GroupWise systems restarted willy-nilly and they hadn't enabled SOAP for any reason prior to needing DataSync installed.  I knew it could be done, but I couldn't believe it would be easy.  (It's been one of "those" weeks.)

So I went back to the PDF I had for the Data Synchronizer for Mobility Pack and found a better term to search on.  And then I did a D'oh SMH!  It really IS that easy to enable/disable SSL for SOAP to your heart's content.  (Well, other than the fact that the POA will need to be restarted to accept the change.)

So, here's the instructions on how to do this:
  1. Open up ConsoleOne however you are using it (for my clients, that means getting to it from the Linux server hosting the MTA).
  2. Open the Properties for the POA object (not the PO, the actual agent).  Pick GroupWise | Agent Settings and check/uncheck the box for "Enable SOAP".
  3. Pick GroupWise | Network Address and from the pull down in the SSL column for "Internal SOAP" and select "Disabled" or "Required". 
  4. Restart your POA
  5. In Synchronizer Web Admin, (https://data_sync_server:8120/login) click the GroupWise Connector to display the GroupWise Connector Configuration page.
  6. In the GroupWise POA SOAP URL field, use https for a secure SSL connection or http for a non-secure connection.
  7. Click Save Custom Settings.
  8. Click Home on the menu bar to return to the main Synchronizer Web Admin page. 
  9. In the Actions column for the GroupWise Connector, click Stop icon to stop the GroupWise Connector, then click Start icon to start the GroupWise Connector with the new setting in effect. 
Yep that easy.  Hopefully this helps out someone (including myself) that is searching using a similar term and not getting anywhere on the Novell site.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Why a Blog might be like a Purse

As I was researching an issue for a client today, one of my results had one of my own blog posts as the number 1 selection.  Made me giggle.  Anytime I see one of my posts at the top of a search makes me laugh. 

Since I use my blog as a spot to store "reminders" to myself, I don't really think of it as useful to many others.  If it is then great!  I'm happy to  have helped, and if it doesn't it's no big deal.  I don't claim to be an expert at anything, which is partly why I always laugh when I see my own blog posts show up in a search. 

I'm not *that* special, I just seem to know how to find those ellusive TIDs and tricks that are well hidden and then forget them as quickly...which is why I put them in my blog. My blog is kind of like a purse in that sense.  I stuff everything I could possibly ever need into it, but God help me if I need to find it in a hurry later on.