How to compact Domino directory (names.nsf) and Administration Request (admin4.nsf) database?

1. Ensure that the program directory is in your system path. If you don't have a system path entry for Louts Domino you can add a path entry. Example C:\lotus\domino (if you modify the path, you will need to reboot your server)

How to change the Program directory in system path?

Right click on my computer => Properties => Advanced

Click on environment variables.

Confirm that there is an entry for the path of lotus program directory. Or you can add the path by clicking on edit button. After entering path reboot the system.

2. Ensure that the notes.ini for the partitioned notes servers is in the relevant data directories.

3. Make sure that you don't have any other notes.ini files hanging around especially in the program directory. (Check for the notes.ini file in the program directory. Make sure that the there is only one notes.ini in the data directory. Delete if you have extra notes.ini file.)

4. You will need to run the command lines from the data directories not from the program directory.

Example:

Suppose your data directory is in E: drive

Go to command prompt. Change the directory to e:\louts\domino\data

And enter the command for compacting

Ncompact names.nsf

IBM Lotus Notes 8 on Linux desktop

Lotus Notes 8 Client on Linux Desktop

If a change is made to the agent in the template and the design task runs, the agent is disabled in the mailfile and the &OnBehalfOf field removed

Question

In Lotus Notes®, users have Editor access to their mailfiles. When a user enables the Out Of Office (OOO) agent, the AdminP task adds his/her name to the $OnBehalfOf field of the OOO agent and enables it. If a change is made to the agent in the template and the design task runs, the agent is disabled in the mailfile and the &OnBehalfOf field removed.

Answer

Notes is working as designed. If you must reenable the agents and repopulate the $OnBehalfOf field after the design task runs, you can create an agent to mark all administration requests in the Admin Request database to "run again" for OOO agent activation. This agent can be executed after signing the template and running the design task on server. This agent would look through the documents in the admin.nsf database, find those documents with the item, ProxyAction = "108", and set the ModifiedFlag to "1". After the agent runs, type the following command in the console, "tell adminp process all".

How to receive notification when users enable 'Full Access Administration' mode

Problem

You would like to receive a notification when Administrators enable "Full Access Administration" mode. How can this be done?

Solution

You can accomplish this by creating an Event Notification in the Monitoring Configuration database (EVENTS4.NSF), following the steps below: 1. Open the Monitoring Configuration database, expand the "Event Handlers" folder, and select the "By Server" view. 2. Click "New Event Handler". 3. On the Basics tab, select the server to monitor, and specify the notification trigger "Any event that matches a criteria". 4. On the Events tab, specify the "Criteria to match" options as follows: Select "Event can be any type", Select "Events can be any severity", and Select "Events must have this text in event message" and specify the text "full administrator access", without the quotes. 5. On the Action tab, specify a notification method. For example, select "Mail" and enter the email address to which emails should be sent when administrators enable "Full Access Administration" mode. 6. On the Action tab, select "Enable this notification". 7. Click "Save & Close". Notifications will also be generated if users are denied access when they attempt to enable "Full Access Administration" mode.

Renaming Users with the Administration Process (AdminP)

IBM - Frequently Asked Questions - Renaming Users with the Administration Process (AdminP): "Can you change the default 21-day limit to something else? Sure. A complete description of how to accomplish that is documented in the Domino Administrator Help, but in the 'Rename Selected Notes People' dialog box, the number of days you want to honor the old name is listed. The default is 21 days, however, you can change that setting to any number between 14 and 60."