Friday, April 20, 2012

IBM Lotus Domino and Sametime Stencil


Created a stencil bundle which can be used to draw Lotus Domino and Sametime visio diagram. Click here to download the stencils. 





Monday, April 16, 2012

Missing applications in Lotus Notes Open Button


This happens when the bookmark.nsf is corrupt.
You can resolve the issue by deleting and recreating a new bookmark.nsf (But you will loose all your bookmarks)
If you have roaming enabled, deleting the bookmark.nsf won’t help because lotus notes will pull a replica of bookmark.nsf from server.
Temporary fix:
Enter this notes.ini entry in client’s machine. Save notes.ini and restart lotus notes.
DisableRoaming=1
Rename the bookmark.nsf to bookmark.old .
This will recreate new bookmark.
Permanent fix:
Unroam the user. Rename the bookmark.nsf to bookmark.old and restart lotus notes client.
Note:  You will loose all your bookmarks, if you recreate a new bookmark.nsf  ( I have tired to fixup, compact, updall the bookmark.nsf but nothing helped. I tried it as a last option. Let me know, if you find any other fix to this. ) 


Thursday, March 1, 2012


NSF Buffer Pool (Now know as UBM- Unified Buffer Manager) is responsible for caching disk I/O for all the databases on a server, improving the performance of the server. The Notes Index Facility(NIF) operates in the buffer and then Writes/Reads to disk if it needs to.

How NSF Buffer Pool calculated in Domino Servers?
By default domino calculates the NSF Buffer Pool Size based on the type of OS and amount of RAM installed. Roughly it allocates 3/8th of Installed RAM.  
Note: You can change the size of Buffer pool by adding a notes.ini entry “NSF_Buffer_Pool_Size_MB=” (Please refer this technote, before making any changes )

How to check how much buffer is in use?
In the server console enter this command
Database.Database.BufferPool.Per*

Note: Over 95 % is good but 99.9% is bad.

Refer the below technotes for more information.