Product Description

Domino is one of the most effective platforms for developing and deploying e-business applications, allowing new communities of developers to enjoy its collaborative capabilities. With over 55 million seats worldwide, Domino already provided a strong foundation for messaging and web applications, and the release of R5 builds on that to make Domino easier to use than ever before. For example, Lotus Domino R5 has been expanded to interact with most browsers and other non-Notes clients, so developers can choose their favorite language to design web applications. With R5, administrators can centrally modify client configurations instead of hopping from one terminal to the next throughout the company. The new Domino interface allows administrators to visually monitor the health and status of the Domino servers in a network from a single screen. All this capability implies complexity, and it's easy to forget which menu to go to. Here's where Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell can help. It's a quick reference that will come in handy again and again for finding solutions to administrative problems. This book covers:

• Domino architecture and key concepts
• R5 administration tools
• Domino directory and console commands
• Database properties and Access Control
• Configuring Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS)
• Supporting the Notes client
• Domino for IIS

Whether the task is messaging servers, modifying administration tasks to a simpler and more efficient level, or ensuring the security and flexibility of a web application server, Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell is the reference developers need to make the most of this reliable and scalable integrated server platform.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #632745 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference enables organisations to harness the fantastic power offered by Lotus Domino--to manage communication so that news and ideas get to the people who need them with minimal hassle, both in terms of user trouble and administrator effort. The book is designed to ease the Notes administrator's job even further, by providing a concise list of tools and procedures that come into play during the setup and day-to-day operation of a Notes environment. This book won't be much help to you if you're completely new to Notes, but it may well save your day if you work with multiple groupware environments (perhaps as a consultant) or if you've been called on to make a structural change in a Notes installation that's gone generally untouched for some time. It'll also back you up if you're fresh from Notes training and need help on the job.

This book excels in its documentation of command-line utilities, and of the entries that appear in the NOTES.INI file. The latter occupies nearly a third of this book, and lists every possible entry that the NOTES.INI parser understands. Each entry in the list appears with its proper syntax, as well as its legal values. You'll find well-reasoned descriptions of each entry as well, along with references to related entries. Documentation of utilities (which are categorised by functional unit, such as mail) is similar.

Topics covered: The tools and settings with which administrators of Lotus Notes need to be familiar. Sections explain the Notes database infrastructure, its methods of routing and tracking mail, and its performance-monitoring utilities. More focused sections show how Notes works with the Domino environment, Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS), and Internet Cluster Manager (ICM). A long section documents NOTES.INI values. --David Wall

About the Author
Greg Neilson has over 11 years of IT experience. He has worked with Lotus Notes/Domino since 1993 and has deployed it on various platforms, including Windows NT, OS/2, AS/400, AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He is certified as an CLP Domino R5 Principal System Administrator and a CLP Domino R5 Principal Application Developer. He also has an MCNE and MCSE+I.

Excerpted from Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell by Greg Neilson. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 13 - Domino Server Tasks and Console Commands

In this chapter, I discuss how to specify which component tasks Domino loads at startup and how to configure Domino to run scheduled maintenance tasks. This type of configuration is usually done once as the server is commissioned, with occasional changes as needed.

There is also a set of commands that you can issue at the Domino server console to dynamically control the operation of the server. These commands are typically used to diagnose and resolve issues with Domino operations, make dynamic configuration changes to the Domino server, or to override scheduled operations and make things such as mail routing or database replication happen immediately.

Domino Server Tasks
A few lines in NOTES.INI define which server tasks are started when the server starts up, and also which scheduled tasks are to run at various times during the day.

The ServerTasks= line lists the tasks to start as the server starts up. The scheduled tasks are listed in the ServerTasksAt0= to ServerTasksAt23= lines. These specifications use the 24-hour clock, where 0 is midnight and 23 is 11:00 P.M.

Another option for scheduling tasks is the Program document in the Domino Directory. The Program document is described in Chapter 2, Domino Directories.

By default, the following tasks are configured to start, depending on how the server has been configured:

When the Quick and Easy Configuration setup option is selected, the tasks set to start at startup are Router, Replica, Update, AMgr, AdminP, CalConn, Event, Sched , Stats, and Maps. Then other tasks are added depending on which other client audience options are selected:

Web Browsers adds HTTP and DIIOP

Internet Mail Packages adds IMAP and POP3

News Readers adds NNTP

Enterprise Connection Services adds DECs

When the Advanced Configuration setup option is selected, the tasks set to start at startup are AdminP, AMgr, Update, Replica, Router, and Maps. Other tasks, such as CalConn, Event, Sched, and Stat, are optionally added if selected. Other tasks are added if they are selected by name. These are:

HTTP, DIIOP

IMAP, POP3

LDAP

NNTP

DECS

When the server has been upgraded from 4.x, you are not required to run the setup application after the code has been installed. This means that the original list of startup tasks is retained. Because the Reports task no longer exists in R5 and has been replaced by the Collect task, you must remove it. You also must remove the SMTPMTA statement, since this function has been added to the Router process.

Then, for the scheduled tasks in NOTES.INI, these entries are added as part of the original installation:

ServerTasksAt1=Catalog,Design
ServerTasksAt2=UpdAll,Object Collect mailobj.nsf
ServerTasksAt3=Object Info -Full
ServerTasksAt5=Statlog

You should also be aware that after you reinstall or upgrade your Domino server code, these entries are usually added again to NOTES.INI, if they had been removed.

Here is a list of all of the Domino server tasks, their functions, and the specific console commands they accept:

AdminP
The Administration Process automates many administration tasks. This task has the following commands available to modify its behavior while it is running:

tell adminp process all
Instructs the admin process to process all new and modified immediate/interval/daily/delayed requests.

tell adminp process daily
Instructs the admin process to process all new and modified daily requests.

tell adminp process delayed
Instructs the admin process to process all new and modified delayed requests.

tell adminp process interval
Instructs the admin process to process all immediate and interval requests.

tell adminp process new
Instructs the admin process to process all new requests.

tell adminp process people
Instructs the admin process to process all new and modified requests to update Person records within the Domino Directory.

tell adminp process time
Instructs the admin process to process all new and modified requests to delete mail files that become unlinked.

tell adminp show databases
Lists the databases that an administration server manages, and also lists databases that do not have an administration server configured.

AMgr
The Agent Manager runs scheduled and triggered agents in Domino databases. This task has the following commands available to modify its behavior while it is running:

tell amgr pause
Pauses the agent manager service, so no new agents can be scheduled for execution on the server.

tell amgr resume
Resumes the agent manager service, so new agents can be scheduled for execution on the server.

tell amgr schedule
Displays the scheduled agents that are to run today, and also the database in which they reside.

tell amgr status
Displays the status of the agent manager, and also configuration information of the agent manager from the server document in the Domino Directory.

Billing
Collects the configured usage information for billing.

Calconn (Calendar Connector)
Used to request free/busy time information for users whose mail databases reside on other servers.

Catalog
Maintains the Domain Catalog, which helps users to find and locate Domino databases and files of interest to them within the Domino domain.

Chronos
Performs updates of database full text indexes for databases that are configured to be updated hourly or daily. This task is autostarted by Domino and does not need to be added to NOTES.INI in order to run. You can cause this task to run immediately by issuing the commands load chronos daily or load chronos hourly.

Cladmin (Cluster Administration Process)
Ensures correct operation of the Domino application-level cluster.

Cldbdir (Cluster Database Directory Manager)
Maintains the cluster database directory.

Clrepl (Cluster Replicator)
Replicates between servers in a cluster in real time. Cluster replication is event-driven, whereas standard replication is schedule-driven. This task has the following commands available to modify its behavior while it is running:

tell clrepl log
Instructs the cluster replication tasks to immediately log information into the server log database, rather than wait for the defined log interval. Use this command when cluster replication is encountering problems--you can view the log entries for the errors and ensure that the problem is resolved before the next cluster replication attempt.

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Customer Reviews

Indispensable
This is a superb book. Although it is not as detailed as Rob Kirkland's system admin "bible" it is a vital addition to anybody's Domino library. The book acts as a quick reference guide to common subjects (console commands, .INI files, server tasks, DECS etc. etc. etc.) and is absolutely invaluable. A must-buy.

Great choice for the busy Domino Admin
An excellent and pithy book covering almost every aspects of the admin role. The sort of book you dip into rather than read. Lives on my desk.

Direct and simple
If you are just looking for a very simple Lotus Domino Administration guide you must buy this book.
It's not very deep and may not help you in solving very complicated and tricky situations, but it's not their purpose either.
But if you are giving your first steps in Administrating Lotus Domino (R5) this will sure answer your entire questions.