Domino @ Symetrik Design

Today, I had quite a bit of fun writing and debugging a weekly maintenance script.

I use this on all of my normal servers, but today, fine tuning this for a partitioned Domino server became a little bit of a challenge.
Tailoring all of the command line input from each of the different commands took a little bit of research.

Thanks to for Jean-Yves Riverin’s FAQ article on NSD
Frequently asked question – How to analyze Notes/Domino NSDs?

I also found other bits on the input method for nserver.exe, ncompact.exe, and nfixup.exe on the Notes/Domino 6 and 7 forum: Read the rest of this entry »

When working on some new partitioned servers today, I saw this on the console of all three servers.

06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.

I couldn’t quite figure it out because the 3 partitioned servers I was building/working on had nothing to do with this new cluster that another team member had just built for our Vietnam office. Read the rest of this entry »

I stumbled upon this today while looking for the notes.ini settings on specifying an IP address for a partitioned server (it’s been a long while).

Technote: 1090975
Title: Error “Unable to find path to server” with Notes or Domino on Windows 2000

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* In addition to these options, the NOTES.INI variable DNSServer may be used to override Windows 2000 system name server settings. This option is provided for those System Administrators who do not wish to edit their system’s registry. To specify the name servers to be used by Domino, add the following line to your server’s NOTES.INI file:

DNSServer=IP Address, IP Address

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Why you would want to override a local hosts file setting in Windows NT/2000/2003, I’m unsure. In a perfect world, of course you would always want to use DNS where possible. You would only place an entry in the local hosts file for specific cases, and that’s manual. Why would you want to override something that you’ve manually set.

Unless, what they are saying is that this will force Domino to use DNS every time instead of using the local computer name and/or local hosts file for lookups.
Example: DNSServer=192.168.7.1,192.168.7.2

I posted this over at the Notes 8.5 Beta forum:

I’ve just downloaded the 8.5 Beta 1 all clients (Admin, Designer, and Notes).

I previously tried out 8.0 (non-beta) and 8.01.
Both of them were just way to sluggish and slow and buggy and periodically froze up.

I have a desktop and a laptop at my desk, and I eventually restorted to mostly using my laptop which has 6.5.6 CCH2 on it because I have to rely on it for administration.

I infrequently used the extra desktop machine on my computer unless I really had to because it was frustrating when it would lock up. Read the rest of this entry »

The migration of Lotus system will be implemented in Vietnam office shortly, so please help me install the Notes cliet on Oanh’s laptop and also teach her how to use this application because it seems to be strange to her.

No wonder there is such a backlash against Notes.

Earlier today, I was searching for an old product that I used to use called Intelliwatch by a company called Candle.

Apparently, IBM has purchased this and re-branded it as “IBM Tivoli Intelliwatch Pinnacle.”

I found this great article posted on the Domino Power website about What’s new in R7 monitoring or DDM (Domino Domain Monitoring). It’s written about GSX Monitoring, which used to be a competitor of Candle Intelliwatch and theoretically is a competitor to the native R7 DDM.

It’s pretty interesting to see where the monitoring function has gone, and it’s got some nice reference links. It’s a little old, but it’s worth a read.

What’s really new with Domino Domain Monitoring?

I haven’t figured out how to put an ideajam into my wordpress blog yet, so here’s is just the link:

Manual replication to all servers in the domain