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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.
Installing
Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
Installing and upgrading Domino® servers
Perform a new or upgrade install of one or many Domino® servers.
Preparing for installing and setting up Domino® servers
Installing an HCL Domino® server is the first part of deploying a server. The second part is using the Domino server setup program to configure the server.
Domino on Docker
HCL Domino® 11.0.1 includes a Docker-compatible Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) of Domino that is part of your entitlement and available for download through the HCL Licensing Portal. HCL Domino 11.0.1 is pre-installed on this image, allowing you to deploy Domino servers as containers with just a few commands.
Creating a secrets file for a password-protected server ID
If a Domino server ID is password-protected and you run the Domino container in detached mode where an administrator cannot input the password directly, create a secrets file to store the password. The Domino server reads the password from the secrets file.

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.
  - Installing and upgrading Domino® servers
    Perform a new or upgrade install of one or many Domino® servers.
    - Preparing for installing and setting up Domino® servers
      Installing an HCL Domino® server is the first part of deploying a server. The second part is using the Domino server setup program to configure the server.
      - Entering system commands
        Some of the procedures that follow include instructions for entering commands at the system command prompt.
      - Domino on Docker
        HCL Domino® 11.0.1 includes a Docker-compatible Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) of Domino that is part of your entitlement and available for download through the HCL Licensing Portal. HCL Domino 11.0.1 is pre-installed on this image, allowing you to deploy Domino servers as containers with just a few commands.
        Domino on Docker requirements
        Understand the requirements and current limitations for Domino on Docker.
        Types of Domino containers
        Use the docker run command to create a container that runs Domino. You can create the following types of Domino containers, based on the docker run arguments that you specify.
        Docker run command arguments
        To create containers for Domino, you use the the docker run command with the following arguments.
        Creating a secrets file for a password-protected server ID
        If a Domino server ID is password-protected and you run the Domino container in detached mode where an administrator cannot input the password directly, create a secrets file to store the password. The Domino server reads the password from the secrets file.
        Deploying a new Domino server on Docker
        To deploy a new Domino server in a Docker container, complete the following steps.
        Upgrading a containerized Domino server
        Upgrading a containerized Domino server is done differently than upgrading a non-containerized server.
        Creating a container to run Domino processes with the server down
        If you need to run Domino processes such as fixup or updall when the server is down, create a specialized container.
        Useful Docker commands
        Following are descriptions of some Docker commands that are useful for interacting with containers.
      - Domino® server installation
        The first step in deploying a Domino® server is installation, or copying the program files to the system's local drive.
      - Disabling concurrent I/O and direct I/O on Domino® servers on AIX®
        Concurrent I/O (CIO) and Direct I/O (DIO) are not supported with Domino® servers. CIO is a file system feature introduced in IBM® AIX® 5.2.0.10, also known as maintenance level 01, in the Enhanced Journaling File system (JFS2). This feature improves performance for relational databases.
      - Domino® server setup program
        The Domino® server setup program guides you through the choices you make to configure a Domino server. Setting up the first Domino server in a domain establishes a framework that consists of the Domino Directory, ID files, and documents. When you set up additional servers, you build upon this framework.
      - Domino® On-Disk Structure
        In this release, Domino® supports file format, on-disk structure (ODS) 53.
      - Using the Domino® server setup program
        The following procedures describe the ways you can use the server setup program.
      - Understanding the Domino® server certification log
        The Domino® certification log records server certification and ID information.
      - Domino® server registration
        Before you install and set up additional servers, you must register them. In effect, registering a server adds the server to the system. The server registration process creates a Server document for the server in the Domino® Directory and creates a server ID. After registering and installing a server, you use the server setup program to obtain a copy of the Domino Directory for the new server and to set up the server to run particular services and tasks -- for example, the HTTP service, the Mail Router, and so on.
      - Optional tasks to perform after Domino® server setup
        You can perform addition tasks after server startup.
      - Starting and shutting down the Domino® server
        Start the Domino® server at the server console.
      - Starting Domino® as an application or a Windows™ service
        If you have installed Domino® as a Windows™ service, when you start the Domino server, you are prompted to specify whether to start Domino as an application or a Windows service.
      - Using instant messaging in the Domino® Directory
        The Domino® Directory is enabled for instant messaging, meaning that you can conduct an online chat directly from the Domino Directory.
      - Running the Domino-Portal integration wizard
        Use the Domino-Portal integration (DPI) wizard to configure an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server to work with your Domino-based infrastructure.
    - Uninstalling a Domino® server
      While it is not necessary to uninstall a Domino® server prior to upgrading to a new Domino release, you may want to uninstall a server.
  - Installing and upgrading Notes® clients
  - Upgrading
    Use this documentation to upgrade the existing Domino® server and subsequently upgrade the Notes® client to a new release. You can also upgrade additional clients such as Domino Administrator and Domino Designer clients and additional features and plug-ins such as the embedded HCL Sametime® 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.
- 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

Creating a secrets file for a password-protected server ID

If a Domino server ID is password-protected and you run the Domino container in detached mode where an administrator cannot input the password directly, create a secrets file to store the password. The Domino server reads the password from the secrets file.

About this task

Ignore this procedure if you plan to run the Domino container in interactive mode. For more information about container execution modes, see Docker run command arguments.

You can create a secrets file manually or through orchestration software such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes. If you create it manually, during remove server setup use the docker cp command to copy the secrets file to the container volume.

If you create the secrets file using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes, the file is added to the volume automatically. For more information, see the following resources:

Docker: Manage sensitive data with Docker secrets
Kubernetes: Secrets

Regardless how you create a secrets file, when you create a container to run Domino, you use the docker run argument --env secretpwfile=<container secrets file> to specify its location.