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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.
Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Planning directory services
HCL Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
Planning LDAP features
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory.
Planning LDAP accounts on Notes® clients
HCL Notes® clients can use LDAP accounts set up in Contacts to connect directly to a remote LDAP directory server. Using an LDAP account, a Notes user can browse the remote LDAP directory and can search for addresses in the remote LDAP directory when sending mail.

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.
  - Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
    Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate HCL Domino® into your existing 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
    HCL Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
    - Using directory servers in a Domino® domain
      An HCL Domino® domain is a network of clients and servers whose users, servers, connections, and access control information is described in a single database called the Domino Directory. When you set up the first server in an organization, Domino creates a Domino domain and a Domino Directory for the domain. When you add servers to the domain they pull replicas of the Domino Directory. To create an additional domain and Domino Directory, you perform a first server setup.
    - Using a central directory architecture in a Domino® domain
      A central directory architecture is an optional directory architecture you can implement in an HCL Domino® domain. This architecture differs from the traditional distributed directory architecture in which every server in a domain has a full replica of the primary Domino Directory.
    - Planning LDAP features
      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory.
      - Planning the LDAP service
        A HCL Domino® server that runs the LDAP task functions as an LDAP directory server, ready to process requests from LDAP clients. Such requests can come from any of the popular Web browser clients that have built-in LDAP support to retrieve directory information, or from custom LDAP applications designed to search for and manage directory information.
      - Planning LDAP accounts on Notes® clients
        HCL Notes® clients can use LDAP accounts set up in Contacts to connect directly to a remote LDAP directory server. Using an LDAP account, a Notes user can browse the remote LDAP directory and can search for addresses in the remote LDAP directory when sending mail.
      - The ldapsearch utility
        Run the ldapsearch.exe utility from the operating system prompt to search any LDAP directory.
    - Planning directory access control
      Use the database ACL to control the general access that users and HCL Domino® servers have to the Domino Directory. Optionally, use an extended ACL to refine the general database ACL and further restrict access to specific portions of the directory. An extended ACL is available for only a Domino Directory and an extended directory catalog.
    - Planning new entries in the Domino® Directory
      The tools you can use to add entries to the HCL Domino® Directory are the HCL Notes® user registration program, migration tools that are integrated with the Notes user registration program, Domino directory synchronization tools, and third-party LDAP applications. You can also add an entry manually, for example you typically add a group entry manually. You might also develop a custom Notes application to add entries.
    - Planning the management of entries in the Domino® Directory
      You can use the HCL Domino® Administrator, the Web Administrator, directory synchronization tools, and third-party LDAP applications to manage entries in the Domino Directory.
    - Planning directory services for Notes® clients
      There are a variety of directory services features available to HCL Notes® clients.
    - Planning directory services in a multiple-directory environment
      HCL Domino® provides directory catalogs and directory assistance to help companies operate in environments with secondary directories.
    - Planning internationalized directory services
      Options are provided for internationalized directory services.
    - Planning directory customization
      You can add forms and views to the HCL Domino® Directory to accommodate specific needs of your company. If you use the LDAP service, you can also use the Domino LDAP Schema database (schema.nsf) to define new object classes and attributes to be added to the directory.
    - Directory services terms
      This topic is an overview of Domino terminology around directory services.
  - Planning a mail routing topology
    HCL Domino® offers you considerable flexibility in configuring your mail system infrastructure, allowing you to use HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 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

Planning LDAP accounts on Notes® clients

HCL Notes® clients can use LDAP accounts set up in Contacts to connect directly to a remote LDAP directory server. Using an LDAP account, a Notes® user can browse the remote LDAP directory and can search for addresses in the remote LDAP directory when sending mail.

About this task

Some of the issues to consider before setting up LDAP accounts on Notes® clients are:

Would you rather set up directory assistance on Notes® clients' mail servers or directory servers to provide Notes® users with access to a remote LDAP directory rather than use LDAP accounts? You might use directory assistance to avoid having to update client LDAP accounts if the remote LDAP directory configuration changes; if you use directory assistance, you change only the Directory Assistance document for the remote LDAP directory if the directory server configuration changes.
What settings do you want to use in an LDAP account? For example, if an LDAP directory server requires a search base, you should specify a search base in the account. Should you use a simple search filter that searches only for a cn attribute to locate user entries, or a more complex search filter that also searches for a mail, uid, sn, or givenname attribute? If searches of the cn attribute only are adequate for your needs, using the simple search filter improves the speed of searches.
Should you use Desktop policy settings documents to set up and modify the LDAP accounts? This approach automates the process of creating and updating the accounts.

LDAP accounts for the Bigfoot and VeriSign directories are set up by default.