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Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes. Ease of Deployment Domino Managed ClientMonitoring and DDM Round TwoAdmin integration with other productsMiscellaneous improvements. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes. Ease of Deployment Domino Managed ClientMonitoring and DDM Round TwoAdmin
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2. IBM Lotus Domino 8 Administration Rob Ingram – Product Manager, Lotus Domino
Chip Carter - Development Manager, Lotus Domino Administration
3. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes Ease of Deployment – Domino Managed Client
Monitoring and DDM – Round Two
Admin integration with other products
Miscellaneous improvements
4. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes Ease of Deployment – Domino Managed Client
Monitoring and DDM – Round Two
Admin integration with other products
Miscellaneous improvements
5. Ease of Deployment -- Domino Managed Client Notes Smart Upgrade
Used to deliver major feature and maintenance upgrades to the Notes client(s)
Supports upgrades from 6.x or 7.x to Notes 8
Provisioning
Domino 8 can deploy incremental features and composite applications to Notes 8
Leverages Eclipse client provisioning technology in Notes 8
Works side by side with Smart Upgrade
Policy based management
Changes to provide new control features in Notes 8
New policy content/settings in Domino 8 to manage new features
6. Ease of Deployment -- Smart Upgrade Problem – upgrading Notes clients on locked down desktops
Solution - Smart Upgrade ‘Run as Admin’
Standalone install kit preparation utility
Works with Any Smart Upgrade capable Notes client (6.0 and higher)
All Notes 6.x and 7.x users can now upgrade using Smart Upgrade
Refer to IBM Redpaper 4180 “Understanding Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade"
7. Ease of Deployment -- Smart Upgrade Run As
8. Ease of Deployment -- Smart Upgrade Run As
9. Ease of Deployment – Provisioning Based on Eclipse platform embedded in Notes 8
Provisioning allows not only client upgrades but centrally administered features on a per-user basis
Changes to layout
Addition or subtraction of individual features and composite applications
Domino Provisioning supports NRPC and HTTP
Domino can also serve as a generic Eclipse HTTP update site
Admins can control (via policies) end user enablement for updating
Works side-by-side with Smart Upgrade
Use provisioning if you want to manage add on features
Otherwise, use the mechanism with which you’re comfortable
10. Ease of Deployment -- Provisioning
11. Ease of Deployment: ProvisioningEclipse Update Sites in Domino 8
12. Ease of Deployment - Policy Based Management Architectural Improvements and New Control Features How to Apply Feature - provides admin choices in applying policy items end users (at item level granularity)
Three options are available uniformly:
Don't change/apply settings
Set initially
Set and prevent users from making changes
Setup policy is no longer necessary (“set initially” covers this)
Uniform UI across all settings documents (mail, desktop, activities, etc.)
Simplified and improved UI (desktop policy settings, for example)
New XML policy mechanisms support current/future Eclipse features
Policy extensibility is there but not exposed – a future release
13. Ease of Deployment - Policy Based Management New Policy Content to Manage New Features New desktop settings
Replication settings
Many new settings for navigation, prompt level, etc.
More than 95% of preference settings are now policy manageable
Inbox management (trimming)
New mail settings
Follow up, attention indicators, message recall and others
Productivity editor settings
IBM OpenDocument (ODF) editor options, default file format types (ODF, Office, SmartSuite), template management, etc.
Activities policy settings
And more…
14. Ease of Deployment - Policy Based Management Architectural Improvements and New Control Features
15. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes Ease of Deployment – Domino Managed Client
Monitoring and DDM – Round Two
Admin integration with other products
Miscellaneous improvements
16. Monitoring - Administrator’s Life before Domino 7 Domino generates errors and messages
Error … “Object Store Manager: File does not exist”
Message … “Index update process started”
Log.nsf records errors and messages sequentially, but some messages are deliberately excluded
Pros and Cons
Pros:
A large record for all errors and messages
useful for debugging, but only if you know what you are looking for
Cons:
log.nsf becomes dumping ground for lost information
Info not prioritized, organized, correlated, etc.
Admins forced to look other places for current event info
17. Monitoring – Domino Domain Monitoring Advantages As of Domino 7, all events are cached and tracked by DDM
DDM.NSF is the on-disk version of all currently cached events
DDM.NSF records a related events into a single report document
DDM.NSF
Pro: great for recording problem context
Pro: great for tracking and organizing problems
Pro: great for exposing knowledge about problems
Pro: great for resolving problems
Con: sub-optimal for tracking problem sequence
Con: sub-optimal for extracting ad hoc data from reports
Refer to IBM Redpaper 4089 for more info on DDM
18. Monitoring - Improvements in Domino 8 DDM By Database views
Indicators for reports that automatically close
Automatic Report Closing probe
WebSphere Services probe
Common Corrective Actions for all enhanced events
Reusable PC/PS/CA
Dedicated customer PC/PS/CA entries
Agents can now be referenced by Corrective Action and Event Handler
Expanded Knowledge Base of PC/PS/CA
19. The implementation of Probable Cause, Possible Solution and Corrective Action has been completely overhauled
The DDM report interface is easier to understand
Customer modifications will no longer collide with new versions
Corrective actions are reusable
Corrective actions can be implemented as Notes agents
A single event can now reference corrective actions that are implemented in LotusScript, Notes formulas, or as a Notes agent
Event Handlers can reference the same Notes agent that a corrective action references
20. The resolution of many issues are not detected so their reports must be manually closed
Now you can automatically close reports that have been open but inactive for a specified period of time
24. Point to the WebSphere server and applications
25. The probe will detect ...
If the server is not running
If the application is not found
If the application is not running
If the application is not responding
26. Improved task monitoring on a per process/thread basis
Eliminates false positives
Supports tracking of multiple threads in a single process or thread
Improves server performance by eliminating constant status line manipulation
Provides consistent monitoring results for different monitoring mechanisms
27. MonitoringDomino 8 Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) Enterprise customers can now view Domino and other enterprise application events in a single monitoring interface
Domino now forwards events to Tivoli Enterprise Console
Simple to configure using existing Domino interfaces
28. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes Ease of Deployment – Domino Managed Client
Monitoring and DDM – Round Two
Admin integration with other products
Miscellaneous improvements
29. Admin IntegrationDB2 Admin Improvements in Domino 8 Domino DB2 administration usability additions
DB2 move group container tool
Admin Client support for DB2 Query View Row limit setting
DB2/Notes default user
Enhanced management of Domino master DB2 account/password
Update and “outage-proof” Domino's DB2 account password
UI to support clean updating of Domino's DB2 account password
30. Admin Integration Domino/Websphere Portal/Websphere App Server Integration of monitoring capabilities/info for extended products
Ability to monitor WAS (WebSphere) from Domino 8.0/DDM with auto-discovery.
Other extended product monitoring features coming post Domino 8.0
Domino/Portal “bridge” for administrators
Portal/Domino install improvements
DPI Wizard for Domino/Portal administrators
Better documentation on Domino/Portal integration
Integration of Portal and Domino administration UIs
31. Admin IntegrationDomino Portal Integration (DPI) Wizard New utility to connect Domino and Portal
Standalone DPI wizard
Makes Domino and Portal integration seamless and painless
Over 120 separate configuration steps eliminated!! 40 fold improvement in time to configure.
Can be used for separately or co-installed configurations
Available with Portal 6.0.1
Refer to session ID 213 for more information
32. Admin IntegrationDomino Portal Integration Wizard
33. Admin IntegrationDomino Portal Integration Wizard
34. Lotus Domino 8 Administration Themes Ease of Deployment – Domino Managed Client
Monitoring and DDM – Round Two
Admin integration with other products
Miscellaneous improvements
35. Miscellaneous Improvements Admin Process (AdminP) in Domino 8 Performance improved - quick check for name in database
Eliminates need to search each note in the db for the name.
Improves design element and Reader and Author changes
Critical request scheduling
Change scheduled request (e.g.: run a daily request immediately)
Dedicated (special purpose) threads for immediate/interval requests
Ensures execution when all general purpose threads are busy
Improved unread marks synch when creating replicas (optional)
Direct Deposit
Support for new features:
Update Bookmarks & Replication Page on Db Move/Delete ?
OOO Service
Inbox management (trimming)
36. Miscellaneous ImprovementsDatabase Redirection Problem: “Stale” db/server references on Notes after db moves/deletes
Solution: Database Redirection
Database redirect “markers” created by default on db moves/deletes
Redirect is used when Notes attempts to open a moved/deleted db
If referenced, the stale Notes reference is replaced
If not referenced, the client removes references to deleted db
New Domino 8 Admin Client tool:
Create or modify db redirects
Designate references for particular users or groups
Database redirects are only used by Notes 8 clients, not servers
37. Miscellaneous ImprovementsDatabase Redirection
38. Miscellaneous ImprovementsDatabase Redirection
39. Miscellaneous Improvements Automatic Maintenance of Inbox
Problem:
Inbox size can have a big impact on Domino mail server performance
Maintaining Inbox size can be inconvenient and hard for end-users
Removing many documents from folders causes replication and view update overhead during business hours
Solution:
Domino 8 provides new control of Inbox contents
Administrators can centrally manage with policies or per-server configuration
40. Miscellaneous Improvements Enabling Automatic Maintenance of Inbox Without policies:
41. Miscellaneous Improvements Enabling Automatic Maintenance of Inbox Using policies:
42. Miscellaneous ImprovementsDomino 8 Server Install Problem – Script and GUI-based installers for multiple Domino Server platforms
Solution – ISMP (Install Shield Multi-Platform) installer introduced for AIX, Solaris, and Linux (in addition to Windows)
Graphical Install UI for non-Windows platforms
Consistent interface across platforms – one installer
Reduced support and maintenance costs/issues
Opportunities to incorporate new technologies
43. Miscellaneous Improvements Web Administration in Domino 8.0
44. Miscellaneous Improvements Other Improvements to Administration Improvements to client versioning
Updates to admin preferences and user registration UI
Cross platform server install
Many other initiatives in security, directory, database management
45. What’s Planned Beyond Domino 8 Areas being considered for future releases – subject to change
Admin Client – Refresh it, simplify it, extend it to support integrated new features such as Chaparral
Policy Based Management – More content, dynamic group support
Server policy management
Avoid ambiguities in settings between servers and replicas
Lock down configurations of servers with dedicated roles
Allow for a hierarchy of settings and delegation of administration
AdminP - Improve performance, decrease latency of requests, decrease load on servers, decrease data size
Better application lifecycle management
46. What’s Planned Beyond Domino 8 Areas being considered for future releases – subject to change
Notes/Domino integration with IBM Common Store Archiving
Integrated with Notes and Domino Administration
Reduces mail Domino storage
Single copy mail attachment storage
Easy to install and deploy
User or administrator driven archiving
Massive scalability
Full compliance and discovery extensions available
Exposure of additional admin APIs – DDM, Policies, etc.
47. What’s Planned Beyond Domino 8 Areas being considered for future releases – subject to change
Domino Domain Monitoring
Extend mission from problem prevention to optimization
Cover more areas and expand corrective actions
Workflow and usability improvements
Autonomic advances
Domino Quick Tune – Static analysis tool to find and provide recommendations and selectable, automated corrective actions
Provisioning enhancements
Composite Applications Dashboards for Administrators
48. What’s Planned Beyond Domino 8
Fill out the Admin Survey!!
49. Related sessions and information..