60+ in 60Admin Tips Power HourChris Miller @IdoNotes on everything, yes everything

Speaker• Chris Miller

▪ @IdoNotes on everything ▪ IBM Champion 2011-2016 ▪ <insert blah blah blah here>

▪ See my blog, podcast and webcasts for more

This is where we give thanks

Paul Mooney Gabriella Davis

Rules of Engagement• You will fill out your session evals

• Now is fine, just mark awesome • Ask questions as we go along, doubtful we have time later

• At no point during this session will any room around us be louder than us

• If they clap, we clap louder • If they cheer, we cheer louder

Agenda

• Talk fast • Check time • Talk faster • Ignore timekeeper in back • Finish session when we are ready

• These tips are in no real order or grouping

#1• The goal of everything we do as admins is to start simple

▪ Occam's razor really works • Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions

should be selected

#2• Domino only has two rules it follows • Remember the two rules and you can solve anything

• Rule #1 • What you let it do (defaults)

• Rule #2 • What you tell it to do (change or set configs)

• It does not wake up in the morning to mess with you

#3• Mail File Digest - summary report for mailfiles and mail-in

databases from OpenNTF ▪ A simple server program that gives you summary or detailed mail

file information ▪ http://idonot.es/mailfiledigesttool

#4• Use Show Configuration console commands for quick

verifications of configurations • Show config domain - shows domain config • Show config ???? - will give you 4 character configs • Show config mail* - give anything starting with mail • Show Config * - of course gives you all

#5• Tell HTTP dump config • A text file of what the server says it actual HTTP settings are

• Used to verify that the server is behaving how you think

#6• Remove replication triangulation on databases that replicate

across tens of servers • Yes this is a thing • Triangulation stores replication events with servers it has not

even replicated with • Available in Domino 8.0.1 and higher

• NSF_REPLHIST_NO_TRI=1REPL_NO_WS_TRI_HIST=1REPL_NO_REMOTE_TRI_HIST=1

#7• Various Replication diagnostic tools are available such as the

Log_Replication notes.ini parameter for replication logging ▪ The log file and log_replication is pretty useless ▪ What if we want to know what exactly happens during replication?

• Set Log_Replication=3 to get information about each replicated note:

#7 - continued• Can we go even higher in Log_Replication? ▪ Why not go to 4

• This will show detailed logging information about each replicated field – Value 3 only showed us the document level

▪ Or how about 5

• This will give you only summary information on replication events

#8• Why are there so many Compact task flags yet we still feel so

limited? • There are currently how many flags and switches available? • This might be a trick question • The answer is at least 38 flags and switches • http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21084388 • Want even more? • Debug_Enable_Compact_8_5=1

• This adds 5 more capabilities and is over 5 years old

#8 - continued• -W nn Only Compact those databases which were NOT

compacted successfully in the last nn days • -w Only Compact system databases (Log.nsf, Names.nsf) • -X nn Limit the time for the compact of a single database to nn

Minutes (only works with the "in-place" compact) • -x nn Limit the total time for Compact to nn Minutes • -# nn Start multiple (nn) compact tasks simultaneously

#9• Force ini configuration changes both directions

• If you update a notes.ini you can push it back to the server configuration document

• Enable_Srvcfg_NAB_Update=1 • You can also push a change manually

• Set config <some update>=XX update

#10• Curious why all replicas are not created accelerated?

• IBM has placed numerous restrictions on Accelerated Create Replica capability in Domino

• Servers must be clustered (why?) • Source is FTI enabled and destination is not (why?)

• Override many of these restrictions • Adminp_Accelerated_Replica_Overrides=

• Values are 1, 4 and 5

#11

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