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Planning directory services
HCL Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
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 directory catalogs
A directory catalog is an optional directory database that can aggregate entries from multiple HCL Domino® directories into a single database. A directory catalog provides enterprise-wide directory access via a single database.

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 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, 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 directory catalogs
      A directory catalog is an optional directory database that can aggregate entries from multiple HCL Domino® directories into a single database. A directory catalog provides enterprise-wide directory access via a single database.
    - Planning directory assistance
      Servers use directory assistance to look up information in a secondary directory -- a secondaryHCL Domino® Directory, an extended directory catalog, or a remote LDAP directory.
    - Comparison of directory catalogs and directory assistance
      Using a condensed directory catalog on a server is no longer supported.
    - Directory search order
      The order in which HCL Notes® and HCL Domino® search directories depends on the nature of the search and the configuration of the directory.
    - Distinguished name syntax in multiple-directory environments
      For a multiple directory environment that include entries that reside in both HCL Domino® and LDAP directories, it's important to understand in what contexts to use an HCL Notes® distinguished name and in what contexts to use an LDAP D distinguished nameN (defined in RFC 2253).
  - 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.
- 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.

Planning directory catalogs

A directory catalog is an optional directory database that can aggregate entries from multiple HCL Domino® directories into a single database. A directory catalog provides enterprise-wide directory access via a single database.

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Directory catalogs are either client-based or server-based. Using a client-based condensed directory catalog, sometimes referred to as a mobile directory catalog, HCL Notes® users can access directory information for an enterprise offline, when not connected to the network. Servers use extended directory catalogs to look up information originating from a secondary Domino® Directory.

Some of the questions to ask when planning directory catalogs are:

Which documents and fields should be aggregated into a directory catalog? Which information you aggregate depends on the type and purpose of the of directory catalog.
If your company uses multiple Domino® directories, should you set up servers to use a directory catalog? The more Domino® directories a company uses, the more benefit there is to aggregating the directories in an extended directory catalog used by servers.
Note: In this release of Domino®, using a condensed directory catalog on a server is no longer supported. If you created condensed directory catalogs and are using them on servers running earlier releases, they will continue to operate, but are not recommended.
Do you want to use a server-based directory catalog for client authentication? If so, how you enable the use of the directory catalog for this purpose depends on the type of server-based directory catalog you use.
If you plan to use a condensed directory catalog on clients' machines, how should the entries be sorted? You should sort a condensed directory catalog according to how users typically enter names when addressing mail, so that type-ahead addressing can find the names.