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Posts Tagged ‘Administration’

I take a look at our admin4.nsf database every morning as part of the things that I “check on” in our environment.

I usually look for pending deletes that other admins in other regions don’t have the access to approve, or don’t know to approve.

I also look at the errors to see who is using an ID file with a public key certificate that does not match their person document. This error pops up when they are using a certificate that is different than the one their person document was generated with.

This disallows adminp to update the Internet password field with their Lotus Notes Client ID file password. That option is set in the user security preferences on the Security Basics tab. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday was a rough day being a Domino mail server admin.

First, let me explain our environment. Most of our company is on Domino and Notes 6.5.1.-6 (mostly Notes 6.5.4).

There is one division that refuses to move to Notes because they love outlook, and their main excuse is that there is the 100 mail rule limitation of Notes. They actually use email as a system like I’ve never seen. They manage a fleet of ships, and each ships sends different kinds of messages, these messages are sent to groups that are nested several times, so many many people receive them. Some people need them for one reason or another. These messages also go into a linux application server and are search able via a web interface.

So basically, they cannot live without having sometimes 200 mail rules. They are pushing electronic mail to the boundaries. I’m sure there is a better way for them to do all of this, but who has the time to pitch a better idea to them, especially when they have no budget. Read the rest of this entry »

We made the decision to roll back half of our hosted Domino severs from our newly outsourced hosted servers at our outsource facility.

Most of our servers are clustered, and we use clustering for fail over, not load balancing, so our odd number servers are primary, and even number servers are the failover cluster mates.

Since at our hosted facility, the production environment was down, and the disaster recovery site wasn’t being backed up, we wanted to fall back the even number servers to our original facility in-house. This way, at least we would have a backup, or fall back plan, if our servers went down again at the outsource facility.

First, we removed the machines from the cluster in the NAB. Read the rest of this entry »