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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.
Server Health Monitor
You can monitor and troubleshoot performance issues using a number of different tools.
Working with Server Health Monitor statistics
Health statistics are recorded in the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF).
Monitoring server health in the Domino® server monitor
You monitor server health in the Domino® server monitor by using monitoring profiles.

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.
      - Server Health Monitor statistics
        The Server Health Monitor reports a statistic for the overall server and for individual components. Each statistic corresponds to a rating.
      - Server Health Monitor ratings
        The Current® Reports view of the Health Monitoring database (DOMMON.NSF) displays the assigned rating for each enabled server and server component. When a server rating is Warning or Critical, the Overall Health Report provides recommendations for correcting the problems.
      - Using the Server Health Monitor
        Using the Server Health Monitor, you can perform various tasks to monitor the health of servers and server components.
      - Server Health reports
        Based on information gathered by the Domino® Server Monitor, the Server Health Monitor issues Health reports. Health reports are stored in the Health Monitoring database (DOMMON.NSF).
      - Working with Server Health Monitor statistics
        Health statistics are recorded in the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF).
        Monitoring server health in the Domino® server monitor
        You monitor server health in the Domino® server monitor by using monitoring profiles.
        Domino® server monitor
        The Domino® server monitor displays real-time statistics and provides a visual representation of the status of servers and server tasks. You can view all servers or a subset of servers, and you can view the status by state or by timeline.
        Viewing the Domino® server monitor
        The Domino® server monitor has two views: By Timeline and By State.
        Starting the Domino® server monitor
        The Domino® server monitor does not start by default; however, you can change the monitoring defaults in the Administration Preferences so that it does.
        Profiles and the Domino® server monitor
        To facilitate monitoring servers, tasks, and statistics, the Domino® server monitor creates a set of default profiles.
        Creating a custom profile in the Domino® server monitor
        To create a custom profile, you modify a default profile and then save it with a new name.
        Modifying a default profile in the Domino® server monitor
        You can add tasks or statistics to a default profile. If you add or remove a server from a default profile, Domino® prompts you to save the profile with another name.
        Specifying profiles to use when you start the Domino® server monitor
        By default, the profile that was being monitored when you stop the server monitor is the profile that will be monitored when you start the server monitor. To override this default behavior, you can specify which profiles to monitor when you start the Domino® server monitor.
        Setting task status indicators for the Domino® server monitor
        In the By State view, each task that you monitor has an associated status level. You determine which status levels to monitor, then each task that you monitor displays a current status indicator or task error.
        Using shortcuts in the Domino® server monitor
        The Domino® server monitor includes shortcuts that provide additional information on the server and server task status without having to move from the Server > Monitoring tab.
      - Viewing server health with the Server Health Monitor
        After the first polling interval passes, the Server Health Monitor posts a report of server health, which you can view in the Domino® server monitor for a quick visual representation of your server's health.
    - 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.
    - 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

Monitoring server health in the Domino® server monitor

You monitor server health in the Domino® server monitor by using monitoring profiles.

You must be actively monitoring each server from which you want to collect health statistics. This means that the Domino® server monitor must be running for you to collect Server Health statistics. By default, the Domino® server monitor includes a set of default server profiles that are created in the Domino® Directory. However, you can create custom profiles that monitor the servers, server tasks and health statistics that you choose.

By default, when you start the Domino® server monitor, it begins monitoring servers in the last profile that was selected when you shut down the Domino® server monitor. The servers in each subsequent profile that you monitor, are added to those servers previously monitored. If you monitor several different profiles in a single session, the number of servers monitored may be quite lengthy, which may impact the performance of the Server Health Monitor. To clear the list of servers monitored, stop and then start the Domino® server monitor.

You can also customize which profiles to monitor upon startup, by specifying profiles you want to monitor in the background, no matter which profile was monitored when you shut down the Domino® server monitor.

You can perform the following tasks when you work with monitoring profiles:

Creating monitoring profiles in the Domino® server monitor
Modify a system profile
Specify monitoring profiles to monitor when you start the Domino® server monitor