IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 System Administration Bootcamp Training  

• Examining the Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes Architecture

• Recognizing the role of the Domino system administrator
• Understanding the key elements of a Domino environment:

What are Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes?

• What is a Domino database?
• What is a composite application?
• What is a directory?

Performing Basic Administration Tasks

• Starting the Lotus Domino Administrator client
• Using on-line help:
• Navigating the Lotus Domino Administrator client
• Setting administration preferences

Examining Lotus Domino Security Mechanisms

• Recognizing the elements used for Domino security:

What is a domain?

• What is a Domino Named Network?
• What is a certifier ID?
• What is a Notes ID?
• What is a server ID?
• What are certificates (Notes & X.509)
• What is an organization?
• What is an organizational unit?

Designing a hierarchical naming scheme

• Deciding on an authentication mechanism and anonymous access
• Defining groups
• Securing a database using the Access Control List
• Securing a server using the server access list
• Securing a workstation using the Execution Control List

Examining Mail Routing in Lotus Domino

• Understanding how Lotus Domino routes mail:

What are the components for mail routing?

• What routing protocols does Lotus Domino support?
• How does mail route within a Domino Named Network?
• How does mail route between Domino Named Networks?

Designing a mail routing topology Examining Lotus Domino Replication

• Understanding Lotus Domino replication:

Replication terms

• Replication logic -- source and target servers, and source and target documents
• Replica databases

Initiating replication

• Recognizing factors that affect replication

Extending Lotus Domino Environment

• Identifying what other functions a Domino server can perform
• Recognizing how clusters increase server availability
• Understanding how Domino partitions work
• Identifying what Internet protocols Lotus Domino supports
• Integrating other IBM products such as, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and IBM WebSphere Portal

Installing and setting up the first Lotus Domino server and administrator

• Considering deployment scenarios
• Designing a hierarchical naming scheme
• Installing and setting up the first Domino server
• Installing and setting up the Domino Administrator client
• Creating a database to track Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes licenses

Setting up servers in the Lotus Domino domain

• Creating additional certifiers for servers and users per an established naming scheme
• Creating server IDs per an established naming scheme

Adding Lotus Notes workstations to the Lotus Domino domain

• Creating internal Lotus Domino user IDs per an established naming scheme
• Installing the Lotus Notes client software
• Setting up the Lotus Notes workstation
• Creating user groups
• Specifying desktop settings using policies

Setting up the administration environment

• Specifying administration preferences
• Allowing and restricting server access
• Allowing administrators access to the Domino Directory
• Recording server activity in the Domino Server Log file

Setting up the replication schedule to synchronize Lotus Domino system databases in the domain

• Designing a replication topology
• Creating a group for server replication
• Scheduling replication
• Monitoring replication

Configuring intranet Lotus Domino mail routing

• Creating Domino Named Networks
• Routing mail between Domino Named Networks
• Scheduling mail routing

Configuring internet mail routing

• Enabling SMTP routing
• Configuring basic and advanced settings for SMTP routing
• Restricting mail flow to and from the Internet

Enabling message controls

• Controlling mail delivery
• Setting mail restrictions
• Creating whitelist and blacklist filters
• Implementing message disclaimers
• Enhancing transfer performance
• Enabling mail journaling
• Understanding how mail rules are executed
• Creating mail rules
• Stopping the processing of mail rules
• Using the blacklist tag and whitelist tag mail rule conditions
• Establishing mail quotas
• Archiving mail using policies
• Controlling Inbox size

Enabling server and messaging monitoring

• Testing mail routing
• Enabling message tracking
• Monitoring mail delivery
• Monitoring mail statistics
• Enabling message recall

Troubleshooting common mail setup problems

• Testing mail connections
• Restarting the Router
• Forcing mail to route
• Managing dead and undelivered mail

Managing Users

• Moving a users mail file
• Changing a users name
• Acting on name change requests
• Changing a users location in the hierarchy
• Extending a Notes ID
• Setting up ID file back
• Recovering an ID file
• Deleting users

Managing Groups

• Creating groups
• Changing a users group membership
• Managing groups
• Renaming groups
• Deleting groups

Managing Non-Notes and Notes Clients

• Setting up browser clients
• Configuring Smart Upgrade
• Enabling Smart Upgrade tracking
• Setting up roaming users
• Enabling or disabling roaming user upgrade status

Deploying Composite Applications

• Understanding composite application deployment fundamentals
• Configuring Lotus Notes 8 clients to access composite applications on a WebSphere Portal server
• Introducing composite application provisioning
• Configuring clients for user-initiated updates

Managing Servers

• Using the server console window
• Defining a backup process
• Enabling Transaction logging
• Analyzing activity data
• Automating server tasks

Updating Servers

• Searching for server references in a domain
• Setting up authentication with other Domino organizations
• Changing server access
• Decommissioning a server
• Recertifying a server ID
• Changing administrator access

Setting Up Server Monitoring

• Identifying mechanisms for collecting server information
• Starting the Statistic Collector task
• Creating event generators
• Creating event handlers
• Choosing a notification method in an event handler
• Creating probes
• Enabling agent logging

Using Domino Domain Monitoring

• Creating and configuring Domino Domain Monitoring probes
• Using Domino Domain Monitoring

Monitoring Server Performance

• Viewing Domino Domain Monitor events
• Viewing real time statistics
• Viewing statistics with Server Monitor
• Using the Domino Web Administrator
• Using the Domino Console

Resolving Server Problems

• Solving authentication and authorization issues
• Troubleshooting replication problems
• Troubleshooting connection problems
• Solving agent manager issues
• Recovering from a server crash
• Configuring Automatic Diagnostic Collection and the Fault Analyzer

Resolving User Problems

• Troubleshooting workstation problems
• Recovering from a workstation crash
• Troubleshooting database issues
• Troubleshooting connection problems
• Tracking user mail messages