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Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
Administration tools
Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
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.
Starting and stopping the Domino® Console
You can run the Domino® Console from any machine on which a Domino server or the Domino Administrator is installed. To use the Domino Console to communicate with a Domino server, the server must be running under a Server Controller.

Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
- Translated documentation
  The HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation is currently available in the following languages.
- What's new in Domino® 11?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 11.
- Overview
  Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.
- Domino trial
  A trial version of HCL Domino® 11.0.1 is available free of charge.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Securing
  This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring 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.
    - 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.
      - Starting and stopping the Server Controller
        You can start the Server Controller, the Domino® server, and the Domino Console.
      - Starting and stopping the Domino® Console
        You can run the Domino® Console from any machine on which a Domino server or the Domino Administrator is installed. To use the Domino Console to communicate with a Domino server, the server must be running under a 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 HCL 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 HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Notices

Starting and stopping the Domino® Console

You can run the Domino® Console from any machine on which a Domino® server or the Domino® Administrator is installed. To use the Domino® Console to communicate with a Domino® server, the server must be running under a Server Controller.

To start the Domino® Console

About this task

For information on using the Domino® Console, choose Help > Help Topics from the Domino® Console menu.

Procedure

Make sure that the Domino® server or the Domino® Administrator is installed on the machine.
Run the following command directly from the program directory, or from a directory path that points to the program directory:
```
jconsole
```
Note: The Domino® Console also starts by default when you start a Server Controller.

To stop the Domino® Console

Procedure

From the Domino® Console, choose File > Exit.
If the Console is currently connected to a Server Controller, when you see the prompt Exiting the Console by disconnecting all active connections. Do you want to continue? do the following:
1. To also stop a Domino® server and Domino® Server Controller running locally, select the option Also, bring down Domino (if running) and quit the local Server Controller - local server name.
2. Click Yes.