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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
Directory assistance
Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
Setting up directory assistance
To set up directory assistance in an Domino® domain, complete these procedures.
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
To set up directory assistance for a remote LDAP directory, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in a directory assistance database.
Configuring alias dereferencing in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
An alias entry in an LDAP directory is an entry that points to another entry. Searching the entry that an alias entry points to is known as dereferencing an alias.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
    - The Domino® Directory
      The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
    - The LDAP service
      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
    - LDAP schema
      A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.
    - ldapsearch utility
      Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.
    - Directory assistance
      Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
      - How directory assistance works
        To configure directory assistance, you create a directory assistance database from the template DA.NTF, and replicate it to the servers that will use it. A server must have a local replica of a directory assistance database to use directory assistance. Then you add the database file name to the Directory Assistance database name field in the Domino® Directory Server documents of these servers.
      - Directory assistance services
        Before you set up directory assistance, read about the services directory assistance can provide.
      - Directory assistance concepts
        Before you set up directory assistance, read about these directory assistance concepts.
      - Setting up directory assistance
        To set up directory assistance in an Domino® domain, complete these procedures.
        Creating and replicating a directory assistance database
        Create a directory assistance database on one server, and then create a replica of the database on each server in the domain that will use it for directory assistance.
        Setting up servers to use a directory assistance database
        After you create a directory assistance database and replicate it to servers, set up the servers to use the database. To set up a server to use a directory assistance database, add the file name of the server's replica of the database to the Directory assistance database name field of the server's Server document in the primary Domino® Directory.
        Creating a Directory Assistance document for a Domino® Directory or extended directory catalog
        To set up directory assistance for an HCL Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in the directory assistance database.
        Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        To set up directory assistance for a remote LDAP directory, create a Directory Assistance document for the directory in a directory assistance database.
        Configuring TLS in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        If an HCL Domino® server uses a remote LDAP directory to look up credentials during Internet client authentication, or to look up the members of groups during database authorization, specify that the server use TLS to connect to the LDAP directory server. Specify TLS so there are secure communications between the Domino server and the LDAP server, and so that the Domino server can use an X.509 certificate to verify the remote LDAP directory server's identity.
        Specifying a name and password for Domino® servers in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        In the Optional Authentication Credential section on the LDAP tab of a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory you can enter a distinguished user name and a password. If a Domino® server connects to the remote LDAP directory server, it presents the name and password so the remote LDAP directory server can authenticate the Domino server.
        Configuring search filters in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        For servers that use directory assistance to search a remote LDAP directory, you can control which LDAP search filters are used to search the directory. Use the Type of search filter to use field in the Directory Assistance document for the directory whose to control which LDAP search filters are used to search the directory.
        Configuring alias dereferencing in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
        An alias entry in an LDAP directory is an entry that points to another entry. Searching the entry that an alias entry points to is known as dereferencing an alias.
        Using Notes® distinguished names in a remote LDAP directory
        This feature allows organizations that migrate users from a Domino® Directory to a remote LDAP directory to continue to use the original Notes® distinguished names for users. This feature is also useful as a way to hide complex LDAP distinguished names from users.
        Special considerations for change detection
        Some subsystems in the Domino® server perform searches against LDAP servers. Directory Assistance, for instance, uses and retains LDAP search results for a period of time, eliminating the need to obtain refreshed information from the LDAP servers. Domino allows these subsystems to quickly detect if entries in certain LDAP directories have changed, allowing Domino subsystems to flush stale search results and conduct another search for current LDAP information.
      - Directory assistance examples
        These examples illustrate directory assistance for one secondary Domino® Directory, for an extended directory catalog, and for an extended directory catalog and a remote LDAP directory.
    - Directory Sync
      Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.
    - Directory catalogs
      A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
    - Extended ACL
      An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

Configuring alias dereferencing in a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory

An alias entry in an LDAP directory is an entry that points to another entry. Searching the entry that an alias entry points to is known as dereferencing an alias.

About this task

Dereferencing aliases can cause poor search performance for some LDAP directories. Select one of the following options in the Dereference alias on search field in a Directory Assistance document for an LDAP directory to control the extent to which alias dereferencing occurs when searching the remote LDAP directory.

Table 1. Dereference alias on search options
Option	Description
Never	Never dereference alias entries. If there are no alias entries in the LDAP directory that require dereferencing, choose this option to improve search performance.
Only for subordinate entries	Dereference alias entries subordinate to a specified search base, but do not dereference an alias search base entry.
Only for search base entries	Deference an alias entry for a specified search base, but do not dereference alias entries subordinate to the search base.
Always	Always dereference aliases. This selection is the default behavior.

Example of alias dereferencing

Suppose an LDAP directory has these entries:

o=Renovations1

o=Renovations2 (alias entry that points to o=Renovations1)

cn=John Doe, o=Renovations1

cn=John Doe, o=Renovations2 (alias entry that points to cn=John Doe, o=Renovations1)

The following table describes which of these entries are returned for a subtree search of o=Renovations 2 (o=Renovations2 and subordinate entries) for each Dereference alias on search option.

Table 2. Dereference alias on search option results
Option	Entries returned
Never	o=Renovations2 cn=John Doe, o=Renovations2
Only for subordinate entries	o=Renovations2 cn=John Doe, o=Renovations1
Only for search base entries	o=Renovations1 cn=John Doe, o=Renovations2
Always	o=Renovations1 cn=John Doe, o=Renovations1