I found this post from Michael Brown rather useful.

I’ve known about this for a very long time, but it’s good to see someone discuss it again and provide an IBM Technote 1099635 on it.

Posted by david, filed under Administration, Reference, Tricks. Date: October 28, 2008, 11:41 am | No Comments »

I don’t know if this is new in 7.0x or was always there in 6.5, but I’ve just discovered “Search in results” tick box under the “more” settings when searching within a view.

How many times have you poured through your logs searching for when a compact job finishes, or looking for a mail message id, or some other particular incident?

I generally do not full text index my server logs, but do use the “Search This View” under the View menu which brings up the familiar search query bar above the view that is present when a database is full text indexed.
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Posted by david, filed under Administration, Tricks. Date: October 21, 2008, 9:36 am | 1 Comment »

I’ve recently stumbled upon using compact -S5 in our weekly Saturday compact program document.

Like most shops, we run Fixup on Fridays and then Compact on Saturdays on all databases.

We found that a couple of servers that have about 400GB worth of mailboxes were not finishing their compact jobs. The compact was taking somewhere in the range of 36 to 48 hours. We weren’t sure how long it was taking because we had to shut it down on Monday morning when people got into the office and starting trying to access their databases.

I found the -S switch which will compact only database which will only compact databases with more white space than you specify in the . Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by david, filed under Administration, Optimization, Program Docs, Tricks, maintenance. Date: October 20, 2008, 12:45 pm | 6 Comments »

I was taking a look at this article at IBM.

I noticed that they added these variables to R6.5.x server:
NSF_DBCache_MaxEntries=4100
Server_pool_tasks=60
Server_max_concurrent_trans=60
Server_show_performance=1
Server_TransInfo_Range=9

and these notes.ini variables to 7.0x server:
NSF_DBCache_MaxEntries=4100
server_pool_tasks=60
server_max_concurrent_trans=60
server_show_performance=1
Server_TransInfo_Range=9
Cluster_replicators=3
FTUpdate_Idle_Time=25
Update_Idle_Time=25
EnableForcedFillOnFileExtend=1
NSF_DBCache_Max_Clean_Hold_Time=9999

Just wondering exactly what they do. It would have been nice if they would have explained the benefits of the performance improvement instead of just comparing the two versions of Domino.

Posted by david, filed under Optimization, notes.ini. Date: October 14, 2008, 5:35 pm | 1 Comment »

I just want to mention that I love HP (and previously Compaq) servers. I love installing Windows 2003 with a Smart Start DVD and all of the HP Insight Management agents, the Windows drivers for the various systems components being installed when it’s all said and done.

I’ve been playing with the HP Systems Insight Management Console for the last few months. It’s a great tool and lots and lots of granular monitoring, patch and firmware deployment, etc.

I just realized this week that you could go to HP’s website and install what’s called a Proliant Support Pack.
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Posted by david, filed under Deployment, HP, Hardware, Monitoring, Windows, maintenance. Date: October 1, 2008, 7:57 am | No Comments »

I’m sure that most admins have been using text files to generate IDs for a long time.

I haven’t.

I sat down to register 284 users this week. It was a new process to me, so I’m going to go through the list of steps here.
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Posted by david, filed under Administration, Deployment, Registration, Tricks. Date: October 1, 2008, 7:30 am | No Comments »