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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 Domino® Administrator
The Domino® Administrator is the administration client for Notes® and Domino. You can use the Domino Administrator to perform most administration tasks.

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.
      - Installing the Domino® Administrator client
        The Domino® Administrator is available for installation in the Notes® single-user Allclient kit on a supported Windows™ release. The Notes single-user Allclient kit is not available for Linux™ or Macintosh.
      - Setting up the Domino® Administrator
        After Domino® Administrator installation, the first time you start the Domino Administrator, a setup wizard automatically runs. After you answer the questions displayed by the setup wizard, the Domino Administrator client opens automatically.
      - Starting the Domino® Administrator
        There are several ways to start the Domino® Administrator.
      - Selecting a server to administer in the Domino® Administrator
        The first time you start the Domino® Administrator, the system automatically creates a server list, based on the domains listed in Administration Preferences.
      - Setting Domino® Administrator preferences
        To customize your Domino® Administrator work environment, set optional preferences.
      - Roadmaps to Domino® Administrator tools
        Most tabs on the Domino® Administrator include a set of tools that change based on the selected tab. For example, the People and Groups tab includes two tools: one for managing people and one for managing groups.
    - 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.
    - 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

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.

You can administer the Domino® system using the local Domino® Administrator or using the Domino® Web Administrator (usually referred to simply as the Web Administrator).

Note: The Domino® Administrator client also offers Domino® domain monitoring (DDM) which you can use to view the overall status of multiple servers across one or more domains.