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IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate IBM® Domino® into your existing environment.
Functions of Domino® servers
Before you install and set up the first Domino® server, consider the function and physical location of the servers that your company needs and determine how to connect the servers to each other.

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.
  - Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
    Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate IBM® Domino® into your existing environment.
    - Planning your Domino server deployment
      Before you install and set up the first IBM Lotus Domino server, you must plan server and organizational naming and security. If you are adding an additional server to an existing Domino infrastructure, you must have already registered the server and its server ID and password must be available.
    - Getting started with Domino® for IBM® i
      You can get information on install and deploying Domino® on an IBM® i server.
    - Functions of Domino® servers
      Before you install and set up the first Domino® server, consider the function and physical location of the servers that your company needs and determine how to connect the servers to each other.
    - Hierarchical naming for servers and users
      Hierarchical naming is the cornerstone of IBM® Domino® security; therefore planning it is a critical task. Hierarchical names provide unique identifiers for servers and users in a company. When you register new servers and users, the hierarchical names drive their certification, or their level of access to the system, and control whether users and servers in different organizations and organizational units can communicate with each another.
    - Domino® domains
      A Domino® domain is a group of IBM® Domino servers that share the same Domino Directory. As the control and administration center for Domino servers in a domain, the Domino Directory contains, among other documents, a Server document for each server and a Person document for each IBM Notes® user.
    - Partitioned servers
      Using Domino® server partitioning, you can run multiple instances of the Domino server on a single computer. By doing so, you reduce hardware expenses and minimize the number of computers to administer because, instead of purchasing multiple small computers to run Domino servers that might not take advantage of the resources available to them, you can purchase a single, more powerful computer and run multiple instances of the Domino server on that single machine.
    - Certifier IDs and certificates
      Certifier IDs and certificates form the basis of IBM® Domino® security. To place servers and users correctly within your organization's hierarchical name scheme, you create a certifier ID for each branch on the name tree. You use the certifiers during server and user registration to "stamp" each server ID and user ID with a certificate that defines where each belongs in the organization. Servers and users who belong to the same name tree can communicate with each other; servers and users who belong to different name trees need a cross-certificate to communicate with each other.
    - Domino® server services
      Before you start the IBM® Domino® Server Setup program, decide which services and tasks to set up on the server.
    - Domino® naming requirements
      Refer to these guidelines when naming parts of the IBM® Domino® system.
    - Building the Domino® environment
      After installing the first IBM® Domino® server and any additional servers, configure the servers and build the environment.
  - Planning server-to-server connections
    Servers must connect to each other to exchange data, for example to replicate databases and exchange mail. You can create connections between servers across a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), by using a pass-through server (a server that acts as an intermediary server between a client and its destination), or over the Internet. Create a Server Connection document whenever you need to establish any new or additional server connections. You can modify this document when necessary.
  - Planning directory services
    IBM® Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
  - Planning a mail routing topology
    IBM® Domino® offers you considerable flexibility in configuring your mail system infrastructure, allowing you to use IBM Notes® routing, SMTP routing, or both, for internal and external messages.
  - Planning a cluster
    When planning a cluster, it is important to consider the performance and ability of your hardware. The cluster must have enough CPU power, memory, and disk space to handle the cluster traffic and the number of databases and replicas required.
  - Planning the TCP/IP network
    The default TCP/IP configuration for an IBM® Domino® server is one IP address that is globally bound, meaning that the server listens for connections at the IP addresses of all NICs on the computer. Global binding works as long as the computer does not have more than one IP address offering a service over the same assigned TCP port.
  - Planning the NetBIOS network
    The IBM® Domino® network is compatible with NetBIOS, a set of IBM session-layer LAN services that has evolved into a standard interface that applications use to access transport-layer network protocols.
  - Messaging overview
    The IBM® Domino® mail system has three basic components: Domino mail servers, Domino mail files, and mail clients. The Domino mail server is the backbone of an organization's messaging infrastructure, acting both as an Internet mail server and an IBM Notes® mail server. Domino provides standards-based Internet messaging through its support of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). At the same time, Domino supports Notes mail through the use of Notes routing protocols -- Notes remote procedure calls (NRPC) -- and the Notes rich text message format.
  - Planning your Notes® client deployment
    Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the IBM® Notes® client.
  - Planning security
    An important aspect of planning security for your Domino® environment is understanding the tasks and features involved with securing each type of resource.
- 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.
- 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

Functions of Domino® servers

Before you install and set up the first Domino® server, consider the function and physical location of the servers that your company needs and determine how to connect the servers to each other.

Consider your company's need for the following:

Servers that provide Notes® or browser users with access to applications
Hub servers that handle communication between servers that are geographically distant
Web servers that provide browser users with access to Web applications
Servers that manage messaging services
Directory servers that provide users and servers with information about how to communicate with other users and servers
Pass-through servers that provide users and servers with access to a single server that provides access to other servers
Domain Search servers that provide users with the ability to perform searches across all servers in a Domino® domain
Clustered servers that provide users with constant access to data and provide load-balancing and failover
Partitioned servers that run multiple instances of the Domino® server on a single computer
Firewall servers that provide Notes® users with access to internal Domino® services and protect internal servers from outside users
xSP servers that provide users with Internet access to a specific set of Domino® applications

Select one of the following installation options:

Domino® Utility Server -- Installs a Domino® server that provides application services only, with support for Domino® clusters. The Domino® Utility Server is an installation type for Domino® that removes client access license requirements. Note that it does NOT include support for messaging services. See full licensing text for details.
Domino® Messaging Server -- Installs a Domino® server that provides messaging services. Note that it does not include support for application services or Domino® clusters.
Domino® Enterprise Server -- Installs a Domino® server that provides both messaging and application services, with support for Domino® clusters.