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Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for HCL Domino.
Administering with Domino Administrator
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
Managing databases
Topics in this section describe how to set up and manage Domino® databases.
Fixing corrupted databases
Corrupted databases don't occur frequently when you use transaction logging. When you use transaction logging to log changes to databases, a server automatically uses the transaction log to restore and recover databases after a system failure -- for example, after server failures or power failures. If a disk failure occurs, you use the transaction log along with a certified backup utility to restore and recover the databases.
Detecting corrupted databases
You can identify corrupt databases without bringing down the Domino® server. In some cases, the cause of database corruption may be determined by examining the database in the corrupt state.
Collecting corruption data for all databases on a server
The automatic detection and collection of corrupted database occurs at database open. The automatic facility will collect any database detected to have corruption within the configuration parameters currently active.

Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for HCL Domino.
- Administering with AdminCentral
  The AdminCentral application (admincentral.nsf) is automatically created by adminP on the Domino administration server. You can open AdminCentral directly from your Notes Standard or Nomad web client, without the need to start Domino Administrator. This application provides a simplified and easy-to-use way of managing fully functional Notes users and groups in a Domino deployment.
- Administering with Domino Administrator
  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.
  - 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.
    - Database design, management, and administration
      The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and Domino® system administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino system administration.
    - Domino on-disk structure (ODS)
      Domino on-disk structure (ODS) refers to the file format of a database. Each release of HCL Domino® and Notes has a default ODS version for databases. A new release may offer a new ODS version that provides database enhancements not available with earlier ODS versions.
    - Increase the document summary data limit to 16 MB
      Starting with Domino 9.0.1 FP8, you can increase the document summary data limit on databases to 16 MB. Databases must be at ODS 52 or higher.
    - Organizing databases on a server
      You can organize databases in folders.
    - Backup and restore
      As of Domino 12, functionality to back up and restore Notes databases and their associated transaction logs is provided with Domino servers.
    - Attachment consolidation
      The Domino® server employs the Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) to save significant space at the file level by sharing data identified as identical between databases (applications) on the same server.
    - Full-text indexes for single databases
      You can create full-text indexes to allow users to quickly search for information in databases. To search in a database, users enter a word or phrase in the search bar of the database to locate all documents containing the word or phrase.
    - Controlling attachment indexing on servers
      Use the notes.ini setting FT_INDEX_ATTACHMENTS on a server to control full-text indexing of attachments for all databases on a server.
    - Database libraries
      You can create a database library that contains databases that pertain to a specific collection of users or to a specific topic. For example, a corporate database library might include all databases that deal with corporate policies and procedures, and a marketing database library might include databases that are useful to the marketing staff.
    - Database catalogs
      A database catalog provides a list of all databases on a server. You use the server Catalog task to create a database catalog. The Catalog task bases the catalog file (CATALOG.NSF) on the CATALOG.NTF template and adds the appropriate entries to the catalog's ACL.
    - The Files tab in the Domino® Administrator
      The Files tab in the Domino® Administrator provides an easy way for you to manage files in the Domino data folder.
    - Replicating unread marks
      Unread marks can be replicated for selected databases, most notably mail databases, by using the advanced database properties from the Domino® Administrator or from the database properties box. When you enable the replication of unread marks on mail databases, users can read their mail from a workstation on ServerA, and after replication, can read their mail from a workstation on ServerB, with unread mail clearly delineated from mail that has previously been read.
    - Using indirect files to run database maintenance tasks
      You can use indirect files to run the same maintenance task multiple times, resulting in significant time savings. The fixup, compact, updall, design, convert, and replicate tasks support using indirect files. You can also create batch files or scripts that run several maintenance tasks serially against different indirect files to help complete them quickly. If you have multiple CPUs, you can run the same maintenance tasks against multiple indirect files so they run concurrently. It is recommended you only run as many concurrent maintenance tasks as you have CPUs, otherwise they will start competing for CPU resources and can take longer to complete.
    - Updating database indexes and views
      A view index is an internal filing system that Notes® uses to build the list of documents to display in a database view or folder.
    - Synchronizing databases with master templates
      To use a consistent design for multiple databases, database designers can associate databases or elements within databases with a master template.
    - Fixing corrupted databases
      Corrupted databases don't occur frequently when you use transaction logging. When you use transaction logging to log changes to databases, a server automatically uses the transaction log to restore and recover databases after a system failure -- for example, after server failures or power failures. If a disk failure occurs, you use the transaction log along with a certified backup utility to restore and recover the databases.
      - Detecting corrupted databases
        You can identify corrupt databases without bringing down the Domino® server. In some cases, the cause of database corruption may be determined by examining the database in the corrupt state.
        Collecting corruption data for all databases on a server
        The automatic detection and collection of corrupted database occurs at database open. The automatic facility will collect any database detected to have corruption within the configuration parameters currently active.
        Capturing corruption data for a specific database
        The dbcapture tool is provided as a standalone tool to collect a specific database manually at the discretion of the administrator or user.
      - Using Fixup
        When you restart a server, the server quickly searches for any unlogged databases that were modified but improperly closed because of a server failure, power failure, hardware failure, and so on. A few minutes after server startup is complete, the Fixup task then runs on these databases to attempt to fix any inconsistencies that resulted from partially written operations caused by a failure.
      - Fixup options
        The information in this topic describes the options that are available when you run Fixup.
    - Moving databases
      It may be necessary to move a database from one server to another -- for example, to distribute databases evenly among servers. If there are replicas of the database, the server to which you move the database should have the appropriate Connection documents to replicate the database to other servers that store replicas. If you're moving a database to a server in a cluster, replication between the server and other servers in the cluster that have replicas of the database occurs without Connection documents.
    - Using load convert to convert non-mail databases
      You can use the server's mail convert utility to convert non-mail databases to another type of non-mail database. Non-mail databases are all databases that do not have a $Inbox folder.
    - Redirecting client references to databases
      You can redirect Notes® client references from deleted or moved databases to a database replica that you specify.
    - Running a database analysis
      A database analysis reveals changes in documents, user activity, and other details such as replication data.

Collecting corruption data for all databases on a server

The automatic detection and collection of corrupted database occurs at database open. The automatic facility will collect any database detected to have corruption within the configuration parameters currently active.

Procedure

Edit the NOTES.INI file on the Domino® server.

Set the following Domino® configuration variables:

Table 1. NOTES.INI parameters for automatic database corruption detection
Parameter	Description
DATABASE_CAPTURE_ENABLED	Enables the automatic collection of a corrupted database as detected by the server when the database is opened. Set to 1 to enable. Note: Upon startup, the Domino® server will enable the function and reset the value of the variable in the NOTES.INI file so that the corrupt database collection is not started on subsequent server restarts without user intervention.
DATABASE_CAPTURE_LIMIT	The maximum number of corrupt databases that will be collected by the server. If not set, the default value is 10. If set to 0, there will be no limit on the number of corrupt databases collected.
DATABASE_CAPTURE_SIZE_LIMIT	The limit, in megabytes (MB), of the total size of all collected databases. If not set, the default value is 100. If set to 0, there will be no limit on the total size of corrupt databases collected.
DATABASE_CAPTURE_DIRECTORY	The directory, relative to the data directory, that will contain the collected databases. The default is IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT\ACDC, placing the corrupted database files into the data\IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT\ACDC directory.

Results

Collected databases have the same name as the source database file with a .cor extension.