Ein weiteres Problem:
Calendar Entries/Reservations Do not Automatically Update Free Time in Clustered Server Environment
Problem
While creating various Calendar entries in your Notes/Domino R5 mail file (Mail50.ntf) or Notes/Domino 6 mail file (Mail6.ntf), you notice that you are not being warned of conflicts when you have other meetings or appointments already scheduled for the dates/times you are selecting for the new Calendar entries. You then notice that you are creating entries on a replica copy of your mail file that is in a clustered server environment, but the mail file that you are creating entries on is not the replica that resides on your home server. Likewise, you notice that the Resource Reservations database has double bookings when it is also in a cluster environment. Why isn't the Free Time System (Clubusy.nsf) being updated in a cluster environment?
Solution
When in a clustered server environment, the Free Time system for Calendaring & Scheduling updates the busytime data for users only on their home server. In the case of the Resource Reservations database it would be the server that the Resource Reservations database was created on. Changes made on a replica are not immediately applied to the Free Time system. In a clustered server environment the changes must first be cluster replicated back to the home server or the server that the Resource Reservations database was created on, where they are then picked up from the Sched task and placed in the busytime system (Clubusy.nsf). Then the updates are cluster replicated back to the clustermates. The lag time is approximately 30 seconds.
In the case where the home server goes down, and the user's mail file fails over to their cluster server, new Calendar entries will not be added into the Free Time system because the Schedule Manager is designed only to update the Free Time system on the home server. An enhancement request, to make the Schedule Manager more cluster-aware, has been submitted to Lotus Software Quality Engineering (spr #MGRS5AZE9S). This request will not be investigated for Notes/Domino R5 or Notes/Domino 6.
As for rooms and resources, Lotus does not recommend or advise clustering a Resource Reservations database. This issue has been reported to Lotus Software Quality Engineering but has been determined not to be a bug (spr #DCOY4G3R62). The Sched task is designed to update the busytime only on the home server of a user or the server that hosts the Resource Reservations database (that is, the server that the Resource Reservations database is created on).
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