The Calendar Agent provides automatic status-tracking information for scheduled appointments, tasks, and notes. When a user schedules a calendar event, the Calendar Agent processes all Accept and Decline responses and automatically updates the events status information in the event organizers calendar.
Only the user who schedules the calendar event can view who has accepted or declined. Attendees only see their own status; every other attendee is viewed as pending. This design avoids the spikes in network traffic that would occur if every attendee updated every other attendees status.
If you choose not to run the Calendar Agent, users receive I-cal status messages in their Inbox. Because the status information is in I-cal format, the event organizer might not be able to discern whether a recipient has accepted or declined the appointment.
I-cal mail clients, such as Microsoft* Outlook* XP, also provide automatic status tracking for scheduled appointments. If you are exclusively using an I-cal compliant mail client, you can choose to either have NetMail® manage status tracking via the Calendar Agent or to have the mail client manage status tracking.
If you are using the Modular Web client, you must run the Calendar Agent to provide automatic status tracking for scheduled appointments.
IMPORTANT: You must restart the calagent executable to effect any changes in the Calendar Agent's configuration. For information on loading and unloading the NetMail Agents, see the Novell® NetMail Administration Guide at http://www.novell.com/documentation.
The Calendar Agent object has two properties pages:
Click the above links for a detailed description of each page's configuration settings.
NOTE: If you configure attributes in multiple pages, you must click Save in each page to save your changes.
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