Explanation: This setting determines how and which groups are searched by LDAP. The LDAP service always searches Domino groups specified as "Multi-purpose," "Access Control List only," "Servers onl

Explanation: notes.ini SERVER_MAX_CONCURRENT_TRANS and notes.ini SERVER_POOL_TASKS settings work together to determine how many NRPC threads can be actively processing server transactions. In most en

Explanation: notes.ini FT_Index_Ignore_Attachment_Types debuted in Notes/Domino 5.0.5, and lets administrators specify additional file types to ignore in the indexing of attachments. For example, the

Explanation: notes.ini AIX_LIMIT_SHM_SEGMENTS helps to manage the memory usage of Domino running on AIX. Default: This notes.ini setting is absent by default. Recommendation: Use AIX_LIMIT_SHM_SE

Explanation: notes.ini DEBUG_FIXUP_RESET_ACL should only be used when it is determined that the ACL on a database is damaged. The setting should only be used temporarily. Default: This setting is

Explanation: notes.ini INOTESDISABLEXPAGECMD disables the XPages feature introduced in Domino 8.5. Default: By default this setting is absent from the server's notes.ini. Recommendation: Remove this setting from the server's notes.ini and restart the HTTP server. Restrictions: This setting affects ...

Explanation: notes.ini DEBUG_disable_dirman_refresh=1 completely disables DbDirMan, an in memory cache of all the server-side databases. This prevents some Domino Administrator features from working and may affect other server-side features. Domino 8.5 has new settings to reduce DbDirMan behavior. ...

Explanation: Some of the following information is also available as part of the entry for SERVERNAMELOOKUPNOUPDATE. While the Update task is explicitly updating Domino Directory (names.nsf) views, any NameLookup or NIFFindByKey calls that need to access a view being updated will back up on the ...

Explanation: Many performance enhancements have been made to NameLookup to avoid the appearance of a hang when trying to do name lookups while views are being updated. To take advantage of these enhancements, the NameLookup Cache Version must be updated. Default: The default for this setting is ...

Explanation: The Domino server maintains a database cache to improve performance by keeping recently used files open for quicker access, avoiding constant disk reads and writes. This cache is disable

Explanation: Streaming Cluster Replication (SCR) was introduced as a performance enhancement to cluster replication in 8.0 but was found to cause problems in 8.0, 8.0.1, and 8.0.2. These issues were fixed in 8.0.2 FP1 and 8.5. The DEBUG_SCR_DISABLED parameter can be used to disable SCR while ...

Explanation: This rule is related to NSF_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE_MB (and/or NSF_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE) Default: The default value used when ConstrainedSHM=1 depends on the operating system and the version of

Explanation: On Domino 6.x and 7.x systems where the physical RAM is greater than 2 GB, Domino 6.x and 7.x servers will calculate the maximum size of the Unified Buffer Manager (UBM) at 38 of the physical RAM. This can be problematic on UNIX systems in particular. The UBM can reach a size of up ...

Explanation: On Domino 6.x and 7.x systems where the physical RAM is greater than 2 GB, Domino 6.x and 7.x servers will calculate the maximum size of the Unified Buffer Manager (UBM) at 38 of the physical RAM. This can be problematic on UNIX systems in particular. The UBM can reach a size of up ...

Explanation: Beginning with Domino 8.5, the format of transaction logs can be optimized for Domino servers that use a block size different than the default block size of 512 bytes. The NOTES.INI op

The purpose of this knowledge collection is to provide links to a select group of documents and resources that educate readers on the items and issues to take into consideration when upgrading to Lotus NotesDomino 8.5. It is highly recommended that you visit our recently published Upgrade ...

What is the Domino Configuration Tuner? The Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) evaluates server settings according to a growing catalog of best practices. All servers in a single domain can be evaluated together. DCT generates reports that explain the issues DCT uncovers, suggest mitigations, and ...