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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
Domino IQ
Domino 14.5 adds support for running an AI inference engine in the Domino backend.
Troubleshooting tips
Here is some helpful information if you encounter a problem with Domino IQ.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Domino IQ
    Domino 14.5 adds support for running an AI inference engine in the Domino backend.
    - Installing Domino IQ
      The Domino IQ installation is separate from Domino. It involves downloading a .zip file and unzipping it to the Domino program directory. This feature is available only on Windows and Linux 64-bit Domino servers with hardware NVIDIA GPU cards installed. HCL recommends NVIDIA GPU hardware with compute capability of 8.0 or higher for faster AI inferencing response time.
    - Enabling Domino IQ servers
      Use the Domino Directory to set up one or more Domino IQ servers.
    - Understanding LLM guard models
    - Configuring the Domino IQ database
      Specify settings in the Domino IQ database (dominoiq.nsf).
    - RAG for the Domino IQ server
      Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with information fetched from relevant data sources like databases. This technique helps in keeping the response from LLMs more grounded, current and domain-specific.
    - Downloading an LLM model manually
      Download pre-trained data models in GGUF format.
    - Configuring the Certstore database for TLS
      Specify TLS communication settings in the Certstore database (certstore.nsf).
    - DominoIQ task status and controls
      Use Domino IQ server task status, along with console/tell commands, to help monitor and Domino IQ.
    - Security considerations for Domino IQ
      When you use Domino IQ to integrate any AI solution, you must test that solution for performance, quality, and security (including for Domino's out of the box IQ features). For better security, your model should support paraphrasing capability, which Domino IQ leverages.
    - Troubleshooting tips
      Here is some helpful information if you encounter a problem with Domino IQ.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring Verse
    HCL Verse provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL Verse.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

Troubleshooting tips

Here is some helpful information if you encounter a problem with Domino IQ.

Set DEBUG_DOMIQ=1 in the Notes.ini file of each Domino IQ server. Additional logging can be found in Domino's console.log file for the Domino IQ task and NotesLLM Query. Searching the console.log for DominoIQ will find most of the debug, the exception being some lower levels of code.
The Domino IQ server sends the output of the AI inference server to the dominoiq_server.log file in the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT directory. The dominoiq_server.log is unique to each run with the format of the name being: dominoiq_server_<servername>_<YY_MM_DD@HH_MM_SS>.log
To log basic responses from the AI inferencing server, set the Notes.ini DEBUG_DOMINOIQ_LLMREQUEST=1 on the Domino IQ server.
To get detailed trace logging to and from the AI inferencing server, set the Notes.ini DEBUG_DOMINOIQ_LLMPAYLOAD=1 on the Domino IQ server. This will log the detailed connection/request/response tracing to a file prefixed with "domiqllm" under the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT directory.
There are various individual logs for different parts of the IQ feature in IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT directory:
- Logging for the query model: dominoiq_server.log
- Logging for the guard model: dominoiq_guard.log
- Logging for the embedding model: dominoiq_embed.log
- Logging for the vector database: dominoiq_vector.log
Similarly, the payload logging is broken out by function:
- Query thread logging: domiiqllmthr<thread id>_*.log
- Embedded thread logging: domiiqembthr<thread id>_*.log
- Vector database thread logging: domiiqvecthr<thread id>_*.log
- Guard thread logging: domiiqgrdthr<thread id>_*.log
The file qdrant_config.yaml gets updated with the hostname and port from the vector configuration in the account document. There are cases where extraneous characters get added to the end of the file causing the vector database process to see it is a bad configuration file and exit. This can be seen by examining the dominoiq_vector.log and seeing an error to the effect of "Error: simple key expect '<?>" at byte <number> line <number> column <number>" in theqdrant_config.yaml.
To resolve, edit qdrant_config.yaml to remove any text after the line : "http_port: <number>" and save the file. Use the server console command "dominoiq start" to relaunch Domino IQ.