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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.
Administration tools
Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
The Administration Process
The Administration Process is a program that automates many routine administrative tasks.
Customizing the Administration Process
You can customize the Administration Process.
Creating an Administration Process view
By default, the Administration Process scans all documents in a database looking for matches in the Readers and Authors fields or Names fields, when an Administration Request for a particular value in that field is received.

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.
    - The Domino® Administrator
      The Domino® Administrator is the administration client for Notes® and Domino. You can use the Domino Administrator to perform most administration tasks.
    - The Web Administrator
      If you have a browser and want to manage and view settings for a Domino® server, you can use the Domino Web Administrator to perform most of the tasks that are available through the Domino Administrator. This section includes the following information about the Domino Web Administrator:
    - The Server Controller and the Domino® Console
      The Server Controller is a Java-based program that controls a Domino® server. Starting the Server Controller starts the Domino server it controls. When a server runs under a Server Controller, you can send operating system commands, Controller commands, and Domino server commands to the Server Controller.
    - The Administration Process
      The Administration Process is a program that automates many routine administrative tasks.
      - Specifying the administration server for the Domino® Directory
        Choosing the administration server for the Domino® Directory depends on your network setup, the available equipment, and the anticipated changes that will be made to the Domino Directory via the Administration Process.
      - Setting up the Administration Process
        You complete a set of tasks to set up the Administration Process.
      - Administration Process support of secondary Domino® Directories
        Domino® supports the use of secondary Domino Directories for maintaining user names and groups that you want to store in a directory other than your primary Domino Directory, NAMES.NSF. For example, you may want to maintain Notes® users with Notes IDs in NAMES.NSF, but maintain Web-only users in a secondary Domino Directory.
      - Processing administration requests across domains
        The Administration Process for the Domino® Directory must be set up on a server in each domain.
      - Setting up ACLs for the Administration Process
        Each administrator who uses the Administration Process to perform tasks must have the appropriate access rights and roles in the Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF), secondary directories -- if applicable, Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF), and the Certification Log database (CERTLOG.NSF).
      - Modifying the Action field in the Access Control List (ACL)
        The Access Control List (ACL) dialog box for Notes® (.NSF) applications contains an Administration Server field and an Action field on the Advanced panel. Use caution when modifying these fields.
      - The Administration Requests database
        Use the views in the Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF) to sort and examine requests in many ways.
      - Managing Administration Process requests
        Managing administration process requests involves approving requests, forcing requests when they must be processed immediately, and checking the Administration Requests database for errors.
      - Customizing the Administration Process
        You can customize the Administration Process.
        Scheduling Administration Request processing
        Each setting in the Administration Process section of the Server document controls the timing of specific types of requests. Interval settings and replication schedules for each server determine how quickly the administrative settings replicate throughout the domain. As these requests are carried out, the speed with which they are replicated to the appropriate databases in the domain depends on the replication schedule for those servers. If necessary, you can schedule separate replication events for more immediate updates.
        Redefining time interval defaults for administration requests
        You can specify the time interval, other than the default time interval, in which a specific administration request will execute. The settings that you specify override the default settings.
        Changing the number of threads used by the Administration Process
        By default, the Administration Process uses three threads to process requests. To improve Administration Process performance, increase the number of threads.
        Defining special purpose threads for specific administration requests
        You can specify one or more special purpose threads for a class of administration requests or for a specific administration request. An administration request's "class" is the request's time frame: immediate or interval.
        Creating an Administration Process view
        By default, the Administration Process scans all documents in a database looking for matches in the Readers and Authors fields or Names fields, when an Administration Request for a particular value in that field is received.
        Enhancing the Administration Process through the Extension Manager
        You can extend the Administration Process to enhance its current core functionality -- that is, processing all administration requests created through the Notes® user interface or by a Domino® server. Using the Extension Manager to extend the Administration Process, you can use the core Administration Process functionality and develop additional tasks based on Administration Process actions.
        Using an extended administration server
        An extended administration server is an administration server that processes Domino® Directory administration requests.
      - Statistics generated during administration request processing
        The Administration Process records statistics to help you monitor the request processing activity of the administration process tasks.
      - Administration request messages
        The response Log documents in the Administration Requests database contain error messages that describe any errors that occur during the processing of an administration request. Error messages also appear on the console of the administration server. Administrators who want to be notified when one of these events occurs on a server, can create an Event Handler document in EVENTS4.NSF to define how they want to be notified.
      - Administration process requests
        An administration request is created by the administrator performing an action; it represents an administration task and is run by the server task AdminP (Administration Process). When an administration request is generated, it appears in the Administration Requests database.
    - Domino® server commands
      This section describes the Domino® server commands that are available, as well as methods of issuing those commands.
    - Domino® server tasks
      The information in this topic describes Domino® server tasks and their defaults in the NOTES.INI file.
    - IBM® i server commands
      You can use IBM® i server commands to manage Domino® with IBM i.
  - Monitoring
    This section describes how to use the tools and features that help you monitor a Domino® system.
  - 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

Creating an Administration Process view

By default, the Administration Process scans all documents in a database looking for matches in the Readers and Authors fields or Names fields, when an Administration Request for a particular value in that field is received.

You can create a view that restricts the scanning for matches in Readers and Authors fields, or Names fields, to the documents appearing in that view. The view must be assigned the name $AdminP.

For information on creating a view, see IBM® Domino® Designer 9.0.1 Social Edition Help.