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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.
Hiding folders in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator
Use the server notes.ini setting ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES to prevent specified folders in the Domino data directory from displaying in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator.

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.
    - Installing the Domino® Administrator client
      The Domino® Administrator is available for installation in the Notes® single-user Allclient kit on a supported Windows™ release. The Notes single-user Allclient kit is not available for Linux™ or Macintosh.
    - Setting up the Domino® Administrator
      After Domino® Administrator installation, the first time you start the Domino Administrator, a setup wizard automatically runs. After you answer the questions displayed by the setup wizard, the Domino Administrator client opens automatically.
    - Starting the Domino® Administrator
      There are several ways to start the Domino® Administrator.
    - Selecting a server to administer in the Domino® Administrator
      The first time you start the Domino® Administrator, the system automatically creates a server list, based on the domains listed in Administration Preferences.
    - Setting Domino® Administrator preferences
      To customize your Domino® Administrator work environment, set optional preferences.
    - Hiding folders in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator
      Use the server notes.ini setting ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES to prevent specified folders in the Domino data directory from displaying in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator.
    - Roadmaps to Domino® Administrator tools
      Most tabs on the Domino® Administrator include a set of tools that change based on the selected tab. For example, the People and Groups tab includes two tools: one for managing people and one for managing groups.
  - 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.
  - 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.
- Managing users
  The Administration Process helps you manage users by automating many of the associated administrative tasks. For example, if you rename a user, the Administration Process automates changing the name throughout databases in the Notes® domain by generating and carrying out a series of requests, which are posted in the Administration Requests database.
- Monitoring servers
  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.

Hiding folders in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator

Use the server notes.ini setting ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES to prevent specified folders in the Domino data directory from displaying in the Files tab of the Domino Administrator.

About this task

Use this feature to hide specified Domino folders that you don't interact with so that the Domino Administrator doesn't load them and the folders that you do interact with will load more quickly. Hiding a folder prevents a server from loading the folder and any of its subfolders, which can save significant time with some hidden folders.

The following table describes the options for this setting. If you use the ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO setting to control whether the data/domino folder is loaded, any of these settings take precedence.

Best practice is to apply this setting through the NOTES.INI tab of a Configuration Settings document that applies to all servers.

Note: This feature applies only when the Administration preference Retrieve only Domino file types (faster). Includes NSF, NTF, BOX etc. is enabled. To see this preference, from the Domino Administrator select File > Preferences > Administration Preferences and select the Files tab.


Setting	Description
ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES= <folder>, <folder>	Hides specified folders. Specify folder names relative to the data directory. Use a comma (,) or semicolon (;) as a delimiter. To hide the data/domino or data/xsp folders, you must specify them. To hide a specific subfolder but not the parent folder, specify the subfolder but not the parent folder. Examples of folders that you probably do not want to hide are folders that contain .nsf or .ntf files.
ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES= 1	Hides the data\domino folder.
ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES= 0	Hides no folders, shows all, including data\domino and data\xsp.

Note: If ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES is not specified, the data\domino and data\xsp folders are hidden.

For example:

ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DIRECTORIES=domino,xsp,W32,rmeval,proxytemp,Properties,xmlschemas