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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.
Setting up a registration profile in AdminCentral
One of the first tasks in using the AdminCentral app is to create a Notes user registration profile that streamlines the various choices that an experienced Domino administrator has to make when registering Notes users.

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.
  - How do AdminCentral requests work?
    AdminCentral (admincentral.nsf), created from the admincentral.ntf template, is used by AdminCentral threads in the AdminP task for processing user registration, user recertification, and group creation requests.
  - Setting up a registration profile in AdminCentral
    One of the first tasks in using the AdminCentral app is to create a Notes user registration profile that streamlines the various choices that an experienced Domino administrator has to make when registering Notes users.
  - Managing Notes users and groups
    Once you have created registration profiles for your Domino deployment in the AdminCentral app, you can use the app to easily create Notes users and groups, recertify users' certificate, delete or rename users, and perform password reset actions for a selected user, from either your Notes client or Nomad browser client.
  - Setting up a deletion profile
    With this profile document, you can customize a Notes user's deletion options, similar to what you can do in the Domino Administrator client.
  - Viewing the Admin Activity log
    The AdminCentral app provides an Activity Log page which lets the administrator view all the different requests that are submitted for various actions such as user registration/recertification and group creation.
  - Using the remote server console
    Get access to the remote server console.
- Administering with Domino Administrator
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.

Setting up a registration profile in AdminCentral

One of the first tasks in using the AdminCentral app is to create a Notes user registration profile that streamlines the various choices that an experienced Domino administrator has to make when registering Notes users.

Note: Starting in Domino 14.5, if there are custom password policy settings assigned to the user's policy, AdminCentral will generate passwords as part of user registration.

Registration profiles can be created and saved in AdminCentral by clicking the settings icon and then clicking the Create Profile button. You need to have the ProfileAdmin role to see this option.

Screenshot of AdminCentral "Planning" page

If there are multiple Organization and Organizational Unit certifiers in your Domino Domain that have been migrated into the Domino certification authority, create one registration profile per certifier. After one registration profile is created, you can click Copy into new profile to easily create profiles for other certifiers.

When you create a new profile, or copy into a new profile, the following tabbed form is displayed:

All of the fields on the form's tabs are similar to the options for user registration that are available in the full Domino Administrator client. The following sections show examples of filled-in fields on the tabs in a registration profile named "14regprof1" where the current default profile is "Redwood."

Certifier Information tab

Sample field content for Certifier information tab

Mail Configuration tab

Sample field content for Mail configuration tab

Internet tab

Sample field content for Internet tab

Group Assignment tab

Sample field content for Group assignment tab

Organizational Information tab

Fields on the Organizational information tab

Email Notifications tab

Sample field content for Email notifications tab

As an administrator, you can enter email addresses for up to three persons, selectable from Domino Directory, to send a notification email containing users' registration info. You can also customize this email notification with header/footer information that contains any relevant organization-specific information to be sent along with the user registration information.

Note: You should not use groups. Also, all of the recipients must have Notes certificates because the mail is encrypted with Notes encryption.

When the user registration request is completed, the administrator receives an email notification similar to the following one: Email received via notification of user registration upon request completion

Email received via notification of user registration upon request completion

Note: The AdminCentral thread on the server generates a strong password based on the specified Security Policy settings.