Configuring a Front-End or Back-End Calendar Server

In the Calendar Server configuration tool, the Set Up a Front End-Back End Deployment Screen enables you to choose whether to configure this server as one of the following:

• A single-server deployment of Calendar Server
• A front-end instance of Calendar Server
• A back-end instance of Calendar Server

If you choose to have a single-server instance of Calendar Server, do not select the check box on this screen. If you want to put your Calendar Server databases on one or more servers, while keeping the processes that communicate with the client on different servers, select the check box.

Use the following topics for more information:

Single-Server Deployment

Do not change any part of this screen if you want a single-server deployment in which both the administrative processes and the databases reside on one server. Click Next to continue.

If you wish to deploy separate Front End and Back End machines, click the check box labeled: Setup a Front End/Back End deployment. The screen will change and you will be allowed to configure the front-end and back-end servers separately.

Front-End and Back-End Deployment

Note You must run the Calendar Server configuration program on each front-end server and back-end server you add to your configuration.

To complete this screen, perform the following steps:

• To configure this instance of Calendar Server as a back-end server (that is, the server on which to store calendar databases), you need only specify the service port.
  
  The service port entry box is pre-filled with the port named in the ics.conf parameters service.dwp.server.hostname.port and service.dwp.port.
  
  If you want to change the port number, enter the desired port number in the Service Port entry box.
  
  
• To configure this instance of Calendar Server as a front-end server, click Add a Host.
  
  Next, enter the host names and IP addresses of the back-end Calendar Server instances with which this front-end will communicate.
  
  For each back-end Calendar Server, click Add a Host and enter its host name and IP address.
  
  
• If this server is the default front-end server, select the Default check box.
  
  Click Next.
  
  

  Note You may also remove back-end Calendar Servers from this list by clicking Remove Selected Host.