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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.
Setting Domino® Administrator preferences
To customize your Domino® Administrator work environment, set optional preferences.
Setting Statistics preferences
You set statistics preferences to enable statistics reporting and statistics charting. The Statistics section in Administration preferences is also where you specify the polling and reporting time interval used for gathering and reporting statistics.

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.
      - Setting Basics preferences for domain management
        You can set basic administration preferences for how to manage Domino® domains.
      - Setting Files preferences
        By setting Files preferences, you can customize which columns appear on the Files tab, change the order in which columns display, and limit the types of files the Domino® Administrator retrieves.
      - Setting Monitoring preferences
        You can use the default Monitoring preferences or customize them.
      - Setting Registration preferences
        You can set default registration preferences that apply whenever you register new certifiers, servers, and users.
      - Setting Statistics preferences
        You set statistics preferences to enable statistics reporting and statistics charting. The Statistics section in Administration preferences is also where you specify the polling and reporting time interval used for gathering and reporting statistics.
    - 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.

Setting Statistics preferences

You set statistics preferences to enable statistics reporting and statistics charting. The Statistics section in Administration preferences is also where you specify the polling and reporting time interval used for gathering and reporting statistics.

About this task

You also enable statistic alarms for use with statistic event generators. If you create statistics event generators to report alarms, you must enable statistics alarms.

Procedure

From the Domino® Administrator, click File > Preferences > Administration Preferences.
Click Statistics.

Complete these fields:

Table 1. Statistics preferences
Field	Action
Generate statistic reports while monitoring or charting statistics	Do one: Enable the field and then specify, in minutes, how often to create statistics reports in the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF). Default is 45 minutes. The value must be greater than the monitoring poll interval specified in the Monitoring preferences. Disable the field if you do not want to create statistics reports or charts.
Check statistic alarms while monitoring or charting statistics	Do one: Enable the field to report an alarm when a statistic exceeds a threshold. You must enable this field to generate a statistic events. Alarms are reported to the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF). Disable the field if you do not want to generate alarms.
Chart statistic using same poll interval as monitoring	Do one: Enable the field to use the poll interval specified in the Monitoring preferences. Disable the field to set a charting interval that is different than the poll interval. Then specify a time interval in which to chart statistics. The default is 20 seconds.

Click OK.