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Course ContentCourse OutlineDomino Servers on the Network
• Domino on the network
• Domino Server services
• Domino Server platforms and scalability
• OS licensing requirements
• Hardware requirements
• NotesBench
• Example platform performance
• How to interpret results
• Domino Server licenses
• Notes client licenses
• Migration/interoperability
• Notes client communication protocols
• Web browsers
• File server
• What Domino is NOT
• Sharing Server resources
• Running Notes client on a Domino Server
Install Domino Server
• Pre-installation: OS optimization
• Pre-installation: ODBC/RDBMS drivers
• Pre-installation: Network connectivity
• Pre-installation: File system security
• CD versions
• Installing from a network drive
• Install software
• Name/Partitioned Server dialog box
• Data/executable directories
• Server choice
• Customize installation
• Program folder
• Reboot server
• Results
• Exercise: Server install
• Silent install
• QMR/QMU updates
Setup Pre-Planning
• To centralize or distribute?
• Domino Domain
• Multiple Domino Domains
• Notes Networks
• Organization structure
• Domino Server names
• Exercise: Setup pre-planning
Set Up First Server
• Common configuration and administration
• Exercise: Server Setup
• Start Setup
• Step 1: Server choice
• Step 2: Server name and title
• Step 3A: Organization Certifier
• Step 3B: Organizational unit certifier
• Step 4: Domain name
• Step 5: Administrator name and password
• Step 6A: Server tasks
• Step 6B: Customize Server tasks
• Step 7B: Network settings
• Step 7B: Customize protocols and host name
• Step 8: Review
• ID files created by Setup
• Contents of Server and User IDs
Start Server
• Start the Domino Server
• Exercise: Start the Domino Server
• Startup
• Server tasks
• Turn off unnecessary Server tasks
• Other ways to start tasks
• Configure Domino to run as a Windows Service
• Exercise: Rename ID files
Install and Configure Domino Administrator
• Minimum platform requirements
• Requirements for Windows directory sync
• Connection requirements
• NotesCONNECT
• Install Domino Administrator software
• Name/Shared Installation Server dialog box
• Data directory
• Client choice
• Customize installation
• Program folder
• Reboot client
• Results
• Exercise: Install and configure Domino Administrator
Quick Tour of Domino Administrator
• Start Domino Administrator
• Startup page
• User interface
• Sequence to use Domino Administrator
• Get Administrator Help
• Directory Profile
• Exercise: Domino Administrator interface
• Administration Preferences
• Web Administrator
• Domino Console
Server Configuration Documents
• NOTES.INI
• Console command to edit the NOTES.INI
• Server Configuration
• Server Configuration document
• Exercise: Server Configuration document
• Multiple Server Configuration documents
Server Console
• Server Console
• Useful Console commands
• Downing a Server
• Remote Server Console
• Server Console properties
• Server Console filters
• Remote Console properties
• Remote Server Console display stop trigger
• Customize the Send button
• Customize the Command button
• Start Domino Administrator to 'Local'
• Running pieces of Administrator
Server Logging
• View the Domino Server Log
• Log filters
• Logging levels
• Keeping the Domino Server Log file small
• Exercise: Server Log
• View Log document
• Domino Server Log analysis
• Exercise: Log Analysis
Server Monitoring
• Server Status
• Exercise: Server status
• Server Monitoring
• Start Monitoring
• Change list of Servers to monitor
• Save list to Profile
• Start Monitoring
• Two monitoring views
• Add tasks to monitor
• Monitoring preferences
• Polling time recommendations
• Exercise: Server Monitoring
Server Statistics
• Server statistics
• Configuration information
• Performance statistics
• Memory statistics
• Disk statistics
• Network statistics
• Reset statistics
• Statistics graphical interface
• Exercise: Statistics
• Statistics monitoring
• Statistics Reports database
• Exercise: Set collection interval
• Statistics Reports
Performance Charting
• Realtime statistics chart
• Chart options
• Historical chart
• Platform statistics
• Platform statistics from the Console
• Platform statistics from Domino Administrator
• Windows Performance Monitor
Event Generators and Handlers
• Event Generators overview
• Event Handlers overview
• Event Generator: Statistics
• Recommended replication threshold
• Event Handler: Statistics
• Event Generator: Database
• Event Generator: Domino Server Response
• Event Generator: Mail Routing
• Event Generator: Task Status
• Event Generator: TCP Server Response
• Exercise: TCP/IP Probe and Event Notification
• Event Generator: Server and Add-In Tasks
• Event Handler: Server and Add-In Tasks
• Create Server and Add-In Tasks from log
Database Tools
• 'Internal' tools
• 'External' tools
• Files function tab
• Files display preferences
• Folder tools
• Database tools
• Database white space
• Compact
• Database white space and inactivity Event Generators
• Database quotas
• Finding quota violations
• Other ways to free disk space
• Database rollout
• Exercise: Database tools
Activity Analysis
• Database activity
• Database Catalog
• Exercise: Database Catalog
• Basic server usage logging
• Detailed server activity logging
• Enable detailed server Activity Logging
• Analyze\Activity tool
• Database analysis
Security Overview
• Security model
• General observations
• Levels of effort
• Lock server console
• Basic network security
• Port access lists
• Directory Folders
• Create Directory Folder
• Directory Folder caveats
• Network data encryption
• 'Firewall network'
• Small shop solutions
• Domino firewall domain
• Resources
User Authentication and Names
• Authentication process
• Failure to authenticate
• Exercise: Failure to authenticate
• Anonymous users
• Distinguished names
• 'Authenticated name' for Notes users
• 'Authenticated name' for browser users
• Alternate name
• Domino Administrator responsibilities
• Developer responsibilities
• Increasing authentication security
• Advanced topics in authentication
Expand the Organization
• Hierarchy of Certifiers
• Advantages of Organizational Units
• Disadvantages of Organizational Units
• Register users with Organization Certifier
• Create OU Certifier from Organization Certifier
• Create OU Certifier from OU Certifier
• Prepare to be a Certificate Authority
• Step 1: Identify Administration Server
• Step 2: Identify Registration Server
• Step 3: Create Certification Log database
• Exercise: Create Organizational Unit Certifier
• Exercise: Register user under OU
• Step 5: Create Mail-In Database for Certification Requests
• Certifier security
• Add multiple passwords to Certifier ID
Cross Certification
• Three methods to cross certify
• Method 1: On-demand cross certification
• Method 2: Verbally cross certify key
• Method 3: Safe ID copy cross certification
• Server-to-Server cross certification
• Exercise: Server-to-Server cross certification using Safe Copy
• Organization-to-Organization cross certification
• Exercise: Organization-to-Organization cross certification
• Picking the right OU level to cross certify
• Exercise: Cross certify Instructor's Organization
• User access to extra-Domain Servers
Group Administration
• Group member lists
• Standard groups
• Create Group document
• Exercise: Create groups
• Group views
• Find Group Member
• Manage Groups
• Rename Group
• Delete Group
• Organizational wildcards
Server Access Lists
• Domino Directory administration
• Security tab
• Recommended Server Access practices
• Exercise: Limiting access
• Server access for browsers
Database Security
• Access Control List
• ACL Entries
• Add users to the ACL
• Acceptable ACL Entries
• Standard settings
• User Type
• Conflicting/overlapping access
• Explicit versus Effective Access
• Maximum Internet name & password access
• Access privileges
• Roles
• Create and assign a role
• Exercise: Define ACL and roles
• Set Administration Server
• Enforce local security
• Manage the ACL with Domino Administrator
• Copy and Paste ACLs
• Server and Domain-wide ACL management
• Exercise: Database Catalog
• System database ACLs
• Exercise: Monitor ACL changes
• Encrypt Server databases
• Exercise: Encrypt Server database
Administration Process
• Administration Process workflow
• Major areas of work
• Security requirements
• Configure AdminP
• Administration Server setting guidelines
• Administration Requests database
• The views you need to pay particular attention to are:
• One Administrative Server or many?
• Extended Administration Server
• When tasks are performed
• Server console commands
• Domino Administrator Tell Task tool
• Exercise: AdminP in action
Administrator Rights
• General user access to the Server
• What being listed as an 'administrator' gets you
• Administrator use of Domino Administrator
• Full Access Administrator mode
• Domino Console Server access fields
• Administrator access to the Domino Directory
• Administrator access to system databases
• OU Administrators
• Extended ACL
• Enable xACL
• Define the xACL
Certificate Authority Process
• Certifier ID source
• Configuration steps
• Step 1: Add languages and password recovery to the Certifier ID
• Step 2: Migrate the Organization Certifier ID to the CA Process
• Step 3: Unlock or activate the Certifier
• Step 4: Use the CA Process
• Step 5: Migrate any OU Certifier IDs to CA Process
• Step 6: Add or delete CAs or RAs
• Issued certificate list database
• Certificate Revocation Lists
Adding Servers to the Domain
• Step 1: Register Server
• Administrative requirements to register Server
• Server name guidelines
• Additional Server registration
• Exercise: Remove Server configuration
• Exercise: Register additional Server
• Step 2: Run the Server Setup program
• Protocol access
• Server security requirements
• Server Setup application
• Exercise: Server Setup on Additional Server
• Exercise: Register new administrator
• Exercise: Reconfigure Notes/Domino Administrator
Replication Fundamentals
• What replication is NOT
• What replication IS
• Cluster Replication
• Why replicate databases
• Database Replica ID
• Document Universal Note ID
• Add documents
• Field modification record
• Single source field update
• Dual source field update
• Document deletion
• Design/ACL replication
• What is NOT replicated
Create a Replica Database
• Prepare source of replica
• Only one replica on a Server
• Immediately create one replica copy
• Exercise: Create one replica copy
• Create replica using AdminP
• Transporting large replicas
Replicate Databases
• Force replication
• Exercise: Replicate from the client
• Replicate from the Server Console
• Exercise: Replicate from the Server Console
• Replicate via Domino Administrator
• Verify replication
• Replication statistics
• Exercise: Replication results
Replication Settings
• General perspective
• Sequence of conditions
• Connection document
• ACL settings
• Differential access via ACL
• Document Reader access list
• Replication Settings: Basics
• Replication Settings: Space Saver
• Replication Settings: Send
• Replication Settings: Other
• Replication Settings: Advanced
• Exercise: Selective Replication
Scheduled Replication
• Replication topology
• How often should you replicate?
• Replication Type
• Scheduling guidelines
• Deterministic replication
• Example topology
• Example schedule
• Cluster Replicator
Replication Connections
• Connection documents
• Required replication connections
• Connection topology
• Create Connection document
• Replication schedule grid
• Exercise: Connection documents
• Multiple Replicator tasks
Troubleshoot Replication
• Replication history and cutoff dates
• Clear the replication dates
• Deletion stub purge
• Replication conflict handling
• Replication conflicts in Domino Directory
• Preventing conflicts
• Document locking
• Enable document locking
• Document locks and mobile users
• Phantom documents
• General troubleshooting
• Enforce consistent ACL
• Domino Server Log
• Replication logging
• Note ID
• Connection trace
• Replication failure Event Generator and Handler
• Third-party replication monitoring tools
Primary and Configuration Directories
• Distributed directory architecture
• Centralized directory architecture
• Pros and cons
• Hybrid directory architecture
• Directory Type settings
• 'Show Xdir' console command
• Change the directory type
Full Text and Domain Search
• Full Text Search
• Full Text Index options
• Full Text Search index properties
• Exercise: Create Index
• Limitations of Full Text Search
• Search for information
• Search results
• Exercise: Full Text Search
• Valid search operators
• Improve your results
• More options
• Exercise: Use the Search Builder
• Save searches
• Full Text Search versus Domain Search
• Full text index settings
• Configuration overview
• Database Catalog versus Domain Catalog
• Domain Catalog
• Catalog replication
• Configuration procedures
• Procedure 1: Enable Domain Catalog and Indexer Server tasks
• Procedure 2: Include Domino databases in index
• Procedure 3: Include other files in index
• Procedure 4: Restart server
• Notes Client configuration
• Search using Notes Client
• Search using Browser
• Exercise: Domain Search
• Domain Search and security
• Design considerations
• Domain Search
• Advanced options
• Exercise: Domain Search
• Delete Domain Index
• Indexer tuning
• Other search products
Server and Database Maintenance
• Recommended maintenance schedule
• Database utilities
• Corrupt documents
• FIXUP
• FIXUP NOTES.INI options
• Corrupt view indexes
• UPDALL
• UPDALL logging options
• COMPACT
• If all else fails
• Indirect (.IND) files
• Automatic Fault Recovery (Windows/UNIX)
• Free but unsupported tools
• Program documents
• Exercise: Run FIXUP from a Program document
• System-level maintenance
• Anti-virus software
• Server backup options
• Backup software
• Backup directories
• Open files
• Exit a Server automatically
• Backup frequency
• Restore a document
Server and Database Performance
• Option 1: Fine tune the Server
• Option 2: Fine tune applications
• Advanced database properties
• Option 3: Optimize the Domino Directory
• Option 4: Enable network compression
• Option 5: Upgrade hardware
• Option 6: Cluster Servers
• Option 7: Dedicate Domino Servers
• Resources
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