Lotus Training : Lotus Domino 7 Monitoring and Maintenance

Lotus Domino 7 Monitoring and Maintenance

Lotus Training Overview

This course covers all aspects of monitoring and maintaining a Domino Server. Domino�s self-monitoring capabilities have expanded with each revision, the latest being Domino Domain Monitoring added to Domino 7.

With this knowledge you will better understand the recommendations on how to increase server reliability and improve server and database performance.

Lotus Training Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

Use the Domino Server Log to focus on specific operational areas, adjust various logging levels, apply log filters, and use the Log Analysis tool to identify particular server events over time.

View statistical counters related to server performance and capacity, collect statistics from multiple servers, chart specific statistics in real time, and chart past statistics to get a sense of emerging trends.

Use several methods to view database and server activity including the granular server and database activity data provided by the Activity Trends Collector Server, which can be reported as current observations and historical trends.

Monitor overall server and individual task status and health.

Define Event Generators to keep watch on many aspects of how Domino is running, and define Event Handlers to respond to the events.

Configure Domino Domain Monitoring to automate problem analysis and provide possible solutions and corrective actions to quickly resolve issues.

Start Domino under the Domino Controller and then use the Domino Console to remotely control the server as well as issue operating system shell commands on the remote server computer.

Configure Domino to automatically restart after a crash and how to collect diagnostic files following a crash in a central repository for further analysis.

Perform routine maintenance on the server and to recover from database corruption using various database utilities.

Run server tasks, including database utilities, on a schedule using Program documents.

Determine which anti-virus and backup software packages are available for Domino.

Learn how to use the Server.Load utility to stress a server so that you can monitor its performance as you fine tune its settings, optimize applications, balance workload between servers, optimize the Domino Directory, and enable network compression.

Determine when to upgrade the server hardware and understand which changes affect different aspects of performance.

Decide when to cluster servers to benefit from automatic failover and load balancing.

Configure servers to assume specialized roles, such as mail routing or replication hub, mail, directory, remote office, etc.

Lotus Training Audience

This course is part of a series of Domino administration training courses. Follow these paths to master all aspects of administering the Domino Server, Lotus Notes, and other clients:

Courses later in the series assume that you have mastered the content of earlier courses.

This course is designed for network/database administrators who are responsible for supporting Lotus Domino Servers and Notes clients. It assumes that you have:

extensive experience using Notes 7

experience using Domino Administrator 7 to manage Domino servers

mastered the Topics covered in Lotus Domino 7 Administration Basics.

You will find the course especially rewarding if you have already installed a Domino Server and a handful of Notes clients and have had some experience designing Domino databases.

Lotus Training Course duration

This course is sold as a 2-day course.

Lotus Training Course outline

Topic 1: Domino Server Log

View the Domino Server Log

Log filters

Logging levels

Keeping the Domino Server Log file small

Exercise: Domino Server Log

Analyze\Log Document tool

Log Analysis tool

Exercise: Log Analysis tool

Write DEBUG messages to text file

Topic 2: Server Statistics

Show Statistic command

Configuration information

Performance statistics

Memory statistics

Disk statistics

Network statistics

Replication statistics

Platform statistics

Reset statistics

Statistics graphical interface

Exercise: Statistics

Collect statistics in Monitoring Results

Exercise: Collect statistics and read reports

Configure Domino Administrator to collect statistics

Exercise: Local statistic collection

Realtime statistics chart

Chart options

Exercise: Realtime statistic chart

Historical chart

Exercise: Historical chart

Windows Performance Monitor

Topic 3: Database and Server Activity

Method 1: Basic database activity

Method 2: Database and user activity in the Domino Server Log

Method 3: Database Catalog

Exercise: Update Database Catalog

Method 4: Activity logging

Exercise: Enable activity logging

Run Analyze\Activity tool

Exercise: Run Analyze\Activity tool

Method 5: Database analysis

Method 6: Activity Trends

Configure Activity Trends

Topic 4: Server Status and Monitoring

Server Status

Server Monitoring

Start monitoring

Change list of servers to monitor

Save server list to profile

Monitoring window

Column sorting

Switch tabs to find details

Two monitoring views

Add tasks to monitor

Add statistics to monitor

Monitoring preferences

Polling time recommendations

Exercise: Server Monitoring

Server Health Monitor

Enable Server Health Monitoring

View health metrics

Recommendations to restore health

Exercise: Server Health Monitoring

Topic 5: Event Generators and Handlers

Server tasks

Event Generators overview

Event Generator: Statistics

Recommended replication threshold

Event Handlers overview

Event Handler for a specific Statistics event

Pre-configured generic Event Handler

Topic 6: Non-Statistics Events

Event Generator: Database

Exercise: Monitor ACL changes

Exercise: Monitor replication failure

Event Generator: Domino Server Response

Event Generator: Mail Routing

Event Generator: Task Status

Event Generator: TCP Server Response

Handling events and simple events by type and severity

Create generic Event Handler by event type and severity

Monitoring Configuration Setup Wizards

Server Monitoring Configuration Troubleshooting Wizard

Create Event Handler from Remote Server Console

Create Event Handler from Domino Server Log

Topic 7: Domino Domain Monitoring

Review of Event Generator probes

DDM objectives

Compatibility and platforms

Key elements of DDM

Probe areas

DDM probe views

Create DDM probe

Exercise: Define DDM probes

Scheduled probes chart

Probe results in the Domino Domain Monitor database

Domino Domain Monitor ACL

Domino Domain Monitor interface

DDM Event document

Exercise: Read DDM events

Manually run a DDM probe

DDM Server Collection Hierarchy

Create a DDM Server Collection Hierarchy

DDM replication

DDM data collection failure

DDM Filters

Tivoli Enterprise Console Server settings

Topic 8: Domino Controller and Console

Advantages of the Domino Console

Advantages of the Domino Controller

Installation and configuration

Operate the Domino Controller and Console

Commands

Issue command to multiple servers

Periodic commands

Server access fields

Topic 9: Server Recovery and Diagnostic Collection

Automatic Server Recovery

Caveats

Configure Automatic Server Recovery and diagnostic collection

Diagnostic collection

What to do with diagnostic files

Third-party recovery tools

Topic 10: Server and Database Maintenance

Recommended maintenance schedule

Corrupt documents

Database utilities

FIXUP

FIXUP NOTES.INI options

Corrupt view indexes

UPDALL

UPDALL logging options

COMPACT

If all else fails

Indirect (.IND) and < files

Program documents

Exercise: Run FIXUP from a Program document

System-level maintenance

Anti-virus software

Server backup options

Backup software

What directories to back up

Open files

Exit a Server automatically

Backup frequency

Restore a deleted document

Topic 11: Server and Database Performance

Server.Load utility

Interpret Server.Load results

Performance-enhancing options

Option 1: Server performance tuning

Option 2: Application performance tuning

Option 3: Server workload balancing

Option 4: Domino Directory optimization

Option 5: Network compression

Option 6: Hardware upgrade

Option 7: Server clustering

Option 8: Dedicated Domino Servers

Performance resources