Documenation

[joako]

Is there any documentation that describes the relationship between all the different pieces? What listens where and where in the config files its setup?

WHAT IS CATALINA AND CATALINA.PROPERTIES? This is not mentioned in the Admin guide.

[dougp23]

I believe it is an implementation of Tomcat.

[joako]

Ok, so where is the official docs for that? OWA uses IIS and t hey tell you all the details for that.

[grahamk]

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig& ... tion&meta=

First result.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/index.html

[joako]

Ok and what about the relationship between all the other servers/listening services that Scalix is comprised of?

[Valerion]

Scalix uses sendmail to send mail (and possibly process incoming mail via a milter), apache and tomcat to serve the web pages (apache for the static pages and tomcat for the JSP stuff). The Service Router does have an interface to using an external anti-virus package. omldapsync can be used to sync from a remote LDAP source, and of course PAM is used for authentication.

Other that that most stuff is internal (all the services and daemons you get when you run omstat - s and omstat -a), or interactions between different internal services. I have seen the original documentation on those interactions and I am glad the Admin Guide has removed them. Most of them take quite a while to fully understand (or at least it did for me back in 2000).

[joako]

Where do I get that guide you are talking about? Scalix needs to publish real documentation not "for dummies" books.

[Valerion]

That used to be back in the Scalix 9 days, IIRC, using the old OpenMail docs as a base. They discuss things like the exact mailstore layout and message body parts and routing topologies and such.

The problem is those guides are out of date now, with all of the changes in Scalix 11, so it may confuse people more than it will help in most cases. I like the new Administration Guide, some days I wish I had that when I did my first OpenMail installation, instead of that 866 page monstrosity supplied by HP called the Technical Reference Guide.

Maybe open up a topic about documentation and let's see if we can explain things to you completely? I don't read the forums on a daily (or sometimes weekly) basis, but I will try to explain a bit.

[joako]

http://www.samsungcontact.com/documents ... _GUIDE.PDF

[Valerion]

Or that one, yeah Will give you an introduction, but beware that there have been MANY modifications in the way things work. Do not take that document for gospel any more.

[joako]

I've been reading the documentation and most seems relevant.

That is the type of documents Scalix Corp should publish.