Symetrik Domino Consulting

I took a look at the LotusLive site – https://www.lotuslive.com/

The product/service looks very nice.

A couple of comments:
1. The demos are unacceptable. The video quality is so bad that you cannot see the detail of what’s on the screen. What’s the point of a video demo that you cannot see.

2. There is no “contact us” link or other way to communicate with IBM if you have questions about the service. There is a contact us on “buy” page and the Sametime Unyte site. I guess if you are really serious, you would have an IBM sales rep knocking on your door.

For a long time, I’ve been frustrated with Domino on the massive amount of messages that we sometimes receive over the weekend, late at night, or early in the morning indicating that a mail.box or some other database is corrupt.

Here’s a list of the common event generators/notifications we receive and a step by step guide on how I setup corrective actions to fix the problem and prevent the event task from spewing thousands of notification messages.

• Event/notification: Error compacting mail\somedatabase.nsf: Database is corrupt — Cannot allocate space
• Corrective Action: New event handler runs “load compact -c ”




• Event/notification: Router: Mailbox file mail1.box is corrupt
• Corrective Action: New event runs “load fixup ”




• Event/notification: Unable to update activity document in log database for bookmark.nsf: Database is corrupt — Cannot allocate space
• Corrective Action: New event handler runs “load fixup log.nsf”

This should significantly reduce the amount of messages that are generated by runaway event monitor notifications.

The following events cannot have event handlers run on them.

• Event/notification: Unable to store document in MailServer1/MyDomain mail\usermailbox.nsf (NoteID = 1264886) from mail\usermailbox.nsf (NoteID = 1209126): Database is corrupt — Cannot allocate space
• Reason: the command would have to be generated on remote server. No possible way to pass an argument to remote server on R6.5.6.




• Event/notification: Unable to replicate MailServer1/MyDomain mail\usermailbox.nsf: Database is corrupt — Cannot allocate space
• Reason: the command would have to be generated on remote server. No possible way to pass an argument to remote server on R6.5.6.




• Event/notification: Database is corrupt
• Reason: This event is generated by the router task based upon messages in the mail routing view in the log. The database that is corrupt is listed on a seperate line in the log than the “Database is corrupt” text, so there is no way to determine by which database to run a command on.

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I Love Limericks, I’ll be honest. So when I saw this page on Mary Beth Raven’s Blog, I couldn’t resist.

Here’s 5 that I submitted:
there once was a man named Jake
in Lotusphere he wanted to partake
he jumped on a plane
looked out the pane
and knew it wasn’t a mistake

There once was a man named Bill
He thought Lotusphere was a thrill
He drove straight down
To Orlando town
Where he wouldn’t catch a chill

There once was a smart fellow
He swore he only bled yellow
he wrote lots a code
with a workload
but at Lotusphere he was mellow

There once was a man named Gwen
He was a Domino admin
He smiled with a grin
as he wrote with his pen
Using Exchange is a sin

There once was a man in his prime
at his desk he acted a mime
his boss came over
looked over his shoulder
and said blogging is a waste of time

Move along…this isn’t the employee that’s been wasting time that you’re looking for.

I stumbled onto this 5 year old post by Jack Dausman in a series of posts he calls “Secrets of the Administration Guild”

It describes how to create a smart icon in the normal Notes client with code to bring up a Remote Console popup dialogue without having to have the Admin client open or installed.

The code is: @Command([AdminRemoteConsole])

I will have to say that it’s a pretty clever little trick and could be darn useful to give “semi-admins” in regional sites a way to run compact on a server or something.

I just downloaded the 8.5 full client. I saw a post this morning regarding The Domino Configuration Tuner, which works on all versions of server, but requires an 8.0 or greater client to run.

I stopped using 8.0 and 8.01 a long time ago and went back to using 7.03.

I just have to say wow. There really is a huge improvement in the client. I wish it would have been like that from the start…we might be planning a R8 upgrade instead of an Exchange migration otherwise.