Welcome
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 Domino® Administrator
The Domino® Administrator is the administration client for Notes® and Domino. You can use the Domino Administrator to perform most administration tasks.
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: Server tab
Use the Server tab in the Domino® Administrator to monitor your Domino system.
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.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 14.0 documentation.
What's new in Domino 14?
Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 14.
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 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.
      - 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: 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, 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

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.

Domino server monitor

Add and remove servers, tasks, and statistics to and from the server monitor