The purpose of this document is to provide you with useful information for troubleshooting general Lotus Domino server performance issues.

IBM® Lotus® Domino® Object and Attachment Service (DAOS) is a feature introduced in Lotus Domino 8.5.0, aimed primarily at reducing disk space. This document is a detailed, stepbystep guide to preparing, planning, deploying, and maintaining a successful DAOS implementation.

DB2, Domino, and DB2NSF setup on a Windows operating system normally works without issue. However, setting up the environment on AIX can be sensitive and may cause problems if exact steps are not followed. Attempting to install a DB2 and Domino setup using DALD "(Db2 Access for Lotus Domino) we ...

NotesDomino 8.5.x The upgrade cookbook linked below provides recommended approaches for upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.x. Within the cookbook you'll find best practices, lessons learned, key information and instructions, and links to more detailed information in other familiar resources ...

Using Live Text and Widgets to improve productivity of daily work Fei Fu (fufei@cn.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM Ming Quan Rao (raomingq@cn.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM Peng Yu (pengyu@cn.ibm.c

Alloy by IBM and SAP: Best practices and tips for deployment Shrikant Veeturi System Software Engineer IBM Software Group Pune, India Girish Padmanabhan Principal Software Engineer IBM Software Group Pune, India August 2009 Summary: how to deploy Alloy™ by IBM® and SAP® in your organization, ...

A new article entitled "Managing reporting in Alloy by IBM and SAP 1.0" has been published to the developerWorks site by Girish Padmanabhan and Amita A. Vadhavkar. As stated in the article summary, this article provides a highlevel architectural overview of Alloy, indepth explanations of all the ...

Pierre Carlson has created an informative post, DeveloperTalk for Lotus Notes Plug-in Development , in the Lotus Expeditor wiki containing both conceptual and task-based information about creating Eclipse-based features and plug-ins for deployment to Notes users. The document, an attachment to ...

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 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

A new article by Hardy Groeger (ISSL Solution Architect) on Alloy by IBM and SAP has been published on developerWorks.  "Implementing custom workflow decisions in Alloy 1.0 by IBM and SAP" uses a simple customer example to explain the necessary steps to implement a custom workflow ...

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 ...

Abstract The http:www01.ibm.comsoftwarelotusproductsalloywhitepaper?cmspCT601SAP7010Technical White Paper: Alloy by IBM and SAP provides a highlevel overview of Alloy architecture, benefits, requirements for deployment, deployment and customization options, and an example ...

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

Abstract: Alloy™ by IBM® and SAP 1.0 (hereafter called Alloy) brings SAP data directly into a user’s IBM Lotus® Notes® client, using Lotus Domino® Web services and displaying it a proper Notes UI d

In this Notesspecific version of Andrew Davis's 2009 Lotusphere presentation you'll gain insight into the Notes client plugin deployment options available to Domino administrators. Andrew led the Notes 8 Install team and continues in the role of Notes Deployment Architect, including overseeing ...

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 ...

Join our Notes UI design experts Mary Beth Raven and Jamie Liu on a Notes Sidebar Safari using their informative and engaging presentation from Lotusphere 2009. Join the safari and learn the basics of using Notes widgets and Domino desktop policy to extend the Notes sidebar and deploy Notes ...