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IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring IBM Domino® servers and databases.
Monitoring
This section describes how to use the tools and features that help you monitor a Domino® system.
Overview of server maintenance
As a Domino® administrator, a major part of your job is maintaining each server that you administer.
Backing up the Domino® server
Back up all Domino® server data files including databases, template files, the NOTES.INI file, and ID files. Following your company's standardized backup procedures, back up files directly to tape or to a file server and then to tape. Never rely only on replication as your method of database backup. A damaged or accidentally changed database may replicate, and then your only recourse is to recover the database from a server backup tape.

IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
- What's new in IBM® Domino® 10?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in IBM® Domino® 10.
- Overview
  Welcome to IBM® Domino® Administrator Help.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the IBM® Domino® server and subsequently deploy the IBM Notes® client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure an IBM® Domino® network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters. Also use this information to set up IBM iNotes® on a server using Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS).
- Securing
  This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring IBM Domino® servers and databases.
  - Administration tools
    Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
  - Monitoring
    This section describes how to use the tools and features that help you monitor a Domino® system.
    - Monitoring the Domino® system
      You can monitor system activity and platform use using one of three tools -- the Domino® Administrator, the Web Administrator, or the server console.
    - Server Health Monitor
      You can monitor and troubleshoot performance issues using a number of different tools.
    - Domino® domain monitoring (DDM)
      Domino® domain monitoring (DDM) provides one location in the Domino Administrator client that you can use to view the overall status of multiple servers across one or more domains, and then use the information provided by DDM to quickly resolve problems.
    - The Domino® SNMP Agent
      The Domino® SNMP Agent enhances the monitoring and control features of Domino by enabling third-party management stations, which use industry standard SNMP, to manage aspects of the Domino server.
    - Overview of server maintenance
      As a Domino® administrator, a major part of your job is maintaining each server that you administer.
      - Server maintenance checklist
        This table lists the server maintenance tasks that you should complete daily, weekly, or monthly to ensure that a server runs efficiently.
      - Backing up the Domino® server
        Back up all Domino® server data files including databases, template files, the NOTES.INI file, and ID files. Following your company's standardized backup procedures, back up files directly to tape or to a file server and then to tape. Never rely only on replication as your method of database backup. A damaged or accidentally changed database may replicate, and then your only recourse is to recover the database from a server backup tape.
      - Backing up servers that participate in attachment consolidation (DAOS)
        When databases on a server are set to participate in attachment consolidation, backing up the server requires an additional step of backing up all .NLO files stored in the Domino® Attachment and Object Service repository. Such files are never modified after creation, so after an initial backup, you need only perform incremental backups.
    - Tools for mail monitoring
      Domino® provides three tools that you can use to monitor mail. Message tracking allows you to track specific mail messages to determine if the intended recipients received them. Mail usage reports provide the information you need to resolve mail problems and improve the efficiency of your mail network. Mail probes test and gather statistics on mail routes.
    - Monitoring directory assistance
      You can monitor directory assistance by using Show Xdir command to display information about all the directories a server uses for directory services. You can also view directory assistance statistics.
    - Monitoring databases
      You can monitor database activity, replication, and document deletions.
    - Monitoring a cluster
      Domino® provides several ways to find out what is happening in a cluster and make adjustments to keep the cluster running smoothly and efficiently, so that no server is overloaded. You can monitor failover, workload balancing, and cluster replication to see how efficiently the cluster is running.
    - Monitoring slow or unresponsive servers with the Domino® Diagnostic Probe
      Use the Domino® Diagnostic Probe (DDP), a Java™ utility provided by IBM® Support, to monitor Domino 8.x and later servers that have been intermittently slow or unresponsive. The probe is a Java process (dbopen.jar) that runs in the background. The utility probes a specific Domino server over time by invoking database open transactions. If the probe detects a slow response, it will invoke Notes® System Diagnostic (NSD) to gather diagnostic data. This data is used by IBM Support to troubleshoot and determine the cause or causes of the performance degradation.
    - Monitoring quality of service
      Quality of Service, or QoS, is designed to react to the general operation of a Domino® server in order to keep that server functioning reliably and always available. If QoS detects that a server is not responding or hung, QoS probing can be configured to email an administrator about the problem and/or automatically terminate the server and restart it. QoS log information can also be useful for analysis by IBM® Support.
    - Understanding Quality of Service (QoS) behavior and logging
      This topic covers details of QoS including server and server controller behavior during kill events, failover trigger, and log file content.
  - Managing servers
    Manage Domino® servers by performing any of these tasks.
  - Managing databases
    Topics in this section describe how to set up and manage Domino® databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve IBM® Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with IBM® Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Glossary

Backing up the Domino® server

Back up all Domino® server data files including databases, template files, the NOTES.INI file, and ID files. Following your company's standardized backup procedures, back up files directly to tape or to a file server and then to tape. Never rely only on replication as your method of database backup. A damaged or accidentally changed database may replicate, and then your only recourse is to recover the database from a server backup tape.

About this task

You have two choices for backup procedures. You can use the traditional method of making backup copies of files, or you can use transaction logging.

Procedure

Domino® requires that these files be open when it runs: LOG.NSF, NAMES.NSF, MAIL.BOX and the server ID file. If your backup utility cannot back up open files, you must shut down the server before you create the backup file.
Copy the server ID file to a disk, and store the disk in a secure place.
Make a replica of the Domino® Directory on a workstation and keep it up-to-date by replicating the local replica with the server replica. Then if the Domino® Directory becomes corrupted, you can quickly restore it by creating a new replica from the local workstation replica. Even if you do this, continue to back up the Domino® Directory to tape. Never do this when transaction logging is used.
If your server participates in attachment consolidation using the Domino® Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) back up the files in the DAOS repository using a standard file backup utility.