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Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
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).
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use IBM® Domino® directory services.
Directory assistance
Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
Setting up directory assistance
To set up directory assistance in an Domino® domain, complete these procedures.
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or extended directory catalog
To set up directory assistance for an IBM® Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in the directory assistance database.
Shortcut for specifying local replicas of a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog in a Directory Assistance document
You can enter an asterisk (*) in the Server Name field on the Replicas tab of a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog to indicate that directory assistance should first look on its local server for a replica of the directory.

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).
  - Configuring a network
    This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful IBM® Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
  - Configuring users and servers
    Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Editing the NOTES.INI file
    You should rarely, if ever, need to modify a server's or client's NOTES.INI file. The NOTES.INI file contains many settings that Domino® and Notes® rely on to work properly. An accidental or incorrect change may cause Domino or Notes to run unpredictably. Therefore, you should edit the NOTES.INI file only if special circumstances occur or if IBM® Support Services recommends that you do so.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use IBM® Domino® directory services.
    - The Domino® Directory
      The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
    - The LDAP service
      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
    - LDAP schema
      A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.
    - ldapsearch utility
      Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.
    - Directory assistance
      Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
      - How directory assistance works
        To configure directory assistance, you create a directory assistance database from the template DA.NTF, and replicate it to the servers that will use it. A server must have a local replica of a directory assistance database to use directory assistance. Then you add the database file name to the Directory Assistance database name field in the Domino® Directory Server documents of these servers.
      - Directory assistance services
        Before you set up directory assistance, read about the services directory assistance can provide.
      - Directory assistance concepts
        Before you set up directory assistance, read about these directory assistance concepts.
      - Setting up directory assistance
        To set up directory assistance in an Domino® domain, complete these procedures.
        Creating and replicating a directory assistance database
        Create a directory assistance database on one server, and then create a replica of the database on each server in the domain that will use it for directory assistance.
        Setting up servers to use a directory assistance database
        After you create a directory assistance database and replicate it to servers, set up the servers to use the database. To set up a server to use a directory assistance database, add the file name of the server's replica of the database to the Directory assistance database name field of the server's Server document in the primary Domino® Directory.
        Creating a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or extended directory catalog
        To set up directory assistance for an IBM® Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in the directory assistance database.
        Shortcut for specifying local replicas of a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog in a Directory Assistance document
        You can enter an asterisk (*) in the Server Name field on the Replicas tab of a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog to indicate that directory assistance should first look on its local server for a replica of the directory.
        Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        To set up directory assistance for a remote LDAP directory, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in a directory assistance database.
      - Directory assistance examples
        These examples illustrate directory assistance for one secondary Domino® Directory, for an extended directory catalog, and for an extended directory catalog and a remote LDAP directory.
    - Directory catalogs
      A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
    - Extended ACL
      An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.
    - Setting up Domino® Active Directory synchronization
      When the Domino® server is installed on a Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003 server, as an administrator, you typically need to maintain two separate directories for the same set of people and groups. Maintaining user and group information involves adding entries to both directories, deleting entries, ensuring that passwords are the same when users use Notes® Single Logon, coordinating group membership in both directories, and ensuring that user or group settings, such as email addresses and telephone numbers, are identical.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    IBM® iNotes® (previously IBM Domino® Web Access) provides IBM Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of IBM iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the IBM® Domino® Web server, the Domino Web Navigator, and other Web servers such as IBM HTTP.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
- 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.
- 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

Shortcut for specifying local replicas of a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog in a Directory Assistance document

You can enter an asterisk (*) in the Server Name field on the Replicas tab of a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or Extended Directory Catalog to indicate that directory assistance should first look on its local server for a replica of the directory.

About this task

This feature is useful in an environment where multiple servers use directory assistance to search local replicas of a directory with the same file name. Use an asterisk to represent all the servers that have local replicas of the directory with the same file name, rather than specifying each server individually in its own Server Name field.

For example, if servers A, B, C, and D each store local replicas of the directory RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF configured for directory assistance, use an asterisk to specify only one Server Name/Directory Filename entry in the Directory Assistance document for RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF:

Table 1. Directory Assistance document entries using an asterisk shortcut
Server Name	Directory Filename
*	RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF

If you do not enter an asterisk, you muse make these four Server Name/Directory Filename entries:

Table 2. Directory Assistance document entries without using an asterisk shortcut
Server Name	Directory Filename
Server A	RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF
Server B	RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF
Server C	RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF
Server D	RENOVATIONSWEST.NSF

If some servers use directory assistance but do not have local replicas of the directory, add at least one explicit Server Name/Directory Filename entry in the Directory Assistance document for these servers to use. If you use the directory assistance failover method, specify at least one explicit Server Name/Directory Filename entry for servers with local replicas to use as an alternate in the event the replica is unavailable.