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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.
Administration tools
Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
The Administration Process
The Administration Process is a program that automates many routine administrative tasks.
Using AdminQ to process web user requests
Use Administration Quick (AdminQ) to expedite the processing of Administration Process (AdminP) requests that affect the user IDs of web users, for example, HCL Verse users. The users must have IDs in an ID vault.

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.
    - 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.
    - 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.
      - Specifying the administration server for the Domino® Directory
        Choosing the administration server for the Domino® Directory depends on your network setup, the available equipment, and the anticipated changes that will be made to the Domino Directory via the Administration Process.
      - Setting up the Administration Process
        You complete a set of tasks to set up the Administration Process.
      - Administration Process support of secondary Domino® Directories
        Domino® supports the use of secondary Domino Directories for maintaining user names and groups that you want to store in a directory other than your primary Domino Directory, NAMES.NSF. For example, you may want to maintain Notes® users with Notes IDs in NAMES.NSF, but maintain Web-only users in a secondary Domino Directory.
      - Processing administration requests across domains
        The Administration Process for the Domino® Directory must be set up on a server in each domain.
      - Setting up ACLs for the Administration Process
        Each administrator who uses the Administration Process to perform tasks must have the appropriate access rights and roles in the Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF), secondary directories -- if applicable, Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF), and the Certification Log database (CERTLOG.NSF).
      - Modifying the Action field in the Access Control List (ACL)
        The Access Control List (ACL) dialog box for Notes® (.NSF) applications contains an Administration Server field and an Action field on the Advanced panel. Use caution when modifying these fields.
      - The Administration Requests database
        Use the views in the Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF) to sort and examine requests in many ways.
      - Managing Administration Process requests
        Managing administration process requests involves approving requests, forcing requests when they must be processed immediately, and checking the Administration Requests database for errors.
      - Customizing the Administration Process
        You can customize the Administration Process.
      - Using AdminQ to process web user requests
        Use Administration Quick (AdminQ) to expedite the processing of Administration Process (AdminP) requests that affect the user IDs of web users, for example, HCL Verse users. The users must have IDs in an ID vault.
        The Administration Quick Requests database
        AdminP creates the Administration Quick Requests database (adminq.nsf) from the adminq.ntf template. adminq.nsf is used by AdminQ in its request processing.
        Customizing AdminQ
        You can use notes.ini settings to customize AdminQ.
        How AdminQ rename requests are processed
        When you rename a web user who has a vaulted ID, for example, an HCL Verse user, the steps to process the request occur automatically.
        How AdminQ recertify requests are processed
        When AdminQ is enabled on the domain administration server and you recertify the ID of a web user or a Notes user, the following steps to occur to process the request automatically.
        How AdminQ key rollover requests are processed
        When you initiate a Notes ID key rollover request from an ID vault Security Settings policy, the following steps occur to update the keys in the ID file of web user who has a vaulted ID.
      - Statistics generated during administration request processing
        The Administration Process records statistics to help you monitor the request processing activity of the administration process tasks.
      - Administration request messages
        The response Log documents in the Administration Requests database contain error messages that describe any errors that occur during the processing of an administration request. Error messages also appear on the console of the administration server. Administrators who want to be notified when one of these events occurs on a server, can create an Event Handler document in EVENTS4.NSF to define how they want to be notified.
      - Administration Process requests
        An administration request is created by the administrator performing an action; it represents an administration task and is run by the server task AdminP (Administration Process). When an administration request is generated, it appears in the Administration Requests database.
    - 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.

Using AdminQ to process web user requests

Use Administration Quick (AdminQ) to expedite the processing of Administration Process (AdminP) requests that affect the user IDs of web users, for example, HCL Verse users. The users must have IDs in an ID vault.

About this task

Before AdminQ was available, AdminP requests that affected Notes user IDs required web users to use an HCL Notes client to authenticate with a Domino server to complete the requests. With AdminQ, the Notes client authentication is no longer required for the completion of these requests.

AdminQ is a thread spawned by AdminP. It works in conjunction with existing AdminP requests. As of HCL Domino 12.0.2, AdminQ runs automatically on the domain administration server and vault administration servers. The first time AdminQ runs, AdminP creates the Administration Quick Requests database (adminq.nsf) which is used by AdminQ for request processing.

You can disable AdminQ by adding ADMINQ_ENABLE=0 to the notes.ini setting on the administration server for the domain. For more information, see Customizing AdminQ.

On Domino 12.0.1, AdminQ has to be enabled by adding ADMINQ_ENABLE=1 to the server notes.ini.

AdminQ comes into play when you perform any of the following tasks for users who have IDs in a vault:

Rename web users (Available starting with HCL Domino 12.0.1 requiring that the ID vault be on the administration server. As of Domino 12.0.2, the ID vault can be on any server.) Can apply to Notes users if the setting ADMINQ_WEB_ONLY=0 is used.
Recertify web users or Notes users (Available starting with Domino 12.0.2. Requires the 12.0.2 or higher adminq.ntf design.)
Roll over the public keys in web user ID files. (Available starting with Domino 12.0.2. Requires the 12.0.2 or higher adminq.ntf and idvault.ntf designs.)