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  3. Administering

    This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.

  4. Administration tools

    Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Roadmap: Server tab

    Use the Server tab in the Domino® Administrator to monitor your Domino system.

  8. Roadmap: Performance tab

    Use the Performance tab to view charts of your performance statistics in real time or historically.

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  • Welcome

    Welcome to the HCL Domino® 12.0.2 documentation.

  • What's new in Domino 12?

    Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 12.

  • Overview

    Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.

  • 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.

  • 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 TLS.

  • 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.

          • Roadmap: People & Groups tab

            Use the People & Groups tab in the Domino® Administrator to manage Domino directories.

          • Roadmap: Server tab

            Use the Server tab in the Domino® Administrator to monitor your Domino system.

            • Roadmap: Status tab

              Use the status tab to view information on tasks and users.

            • Roadmap: Analysis tab

              Use the Server > Analysis tab in the Domino® Administrator to view the Domino log file and statistics reports.

            • Roadmap: Monitoring tab

              Use the Monitoring tab in the Domino® Administrator to monitor Domino server tasks and to work with statistics and server performance information.

            • Roadmap: Performance tab

              Use the Performance tab to view charts of your performance statistics in real time or historically.

          • Roadmap: Messaging tab

            Use the Messaging tab in the Domino® Administrator to track mail.

          • Roadmap: Configuration tab

            Use the Configuration tab in the Domino® Administrator to configure Domino servers.

          • Roadmap: Replication tab

            Use the Replication tab in the Domino® Administrator to configure replication of databases (applications).

      • 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.

  • 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
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Roadmap: Performance tab

Use the Performance tab to view charts of your performance statistics in real time or historically.

The Activity Trends view is a separate product offering.

Tasks you may perform

Create statistic profiles

Display statistic charts

Enabling Activity Trends for monitoring

Creating a server group configuration for Activity Trends

Creating a statistics profile for Activity Trends

Adding and deleting statistics in a Trends profile

Working with resource balancing

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