By Greg Neilson
August 2000
Pages: 370
Series: In a Nutshell
ISBN 10: 1-56592-717-6 |
ISBN 13: 9781565927179
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
The release of R5 has made Domino easier for its 55 million users than ever before. For example, it's now possible to centrally modify client configurations or visually monitor the health and status of the network's Domino servers from a single screen. Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell is the quick reference for getting the most out of this reliable and scalable integrated server platform.
Full Description
- Domino architecture and key concepts
- R5 administration tools
- Domino directory and console commands
- Database properties and Access Control
- Configuring Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS)
- Supporting the Notes client
- Domino for IIS
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Book details
First Edition: August 2000
Series:
In a Nutshell
ISBN: 1-56592-717-6
Pages: 370
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 3 Reviews)
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Easy and Fast for console command searching, October 07 2005
If you are the one who like to work on a console or edit the notes.ini to automate tasks, then this book is for you.
Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell Review, February 16 2001
The best book dedicated on Domino Administration I have found so far :-)
Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell Review, August 30 2000
Until now it was easier to fit a herd of camels through the eye of a needle than find a good Domino book. Greg Neilson has done Domino administrators a service, putting together an excellent book, one which deserves to be on every Domino administrator's desk.
While most people these days tend to run Domino on NT, a Unix version has long been available, and last year Lotus released their Linux version. You can therefore run Domino on a RaQ3 or RaQ4, which use Intel-compatible CPUs, but you cannot run Domino on a Qube, which uses a MIPS CPU. The Domino adminstration tools, however, run only under NT (or Win9x or WinME), unless you get them running under Linux with the help of Wine.
Lotus Domino in a Nutshell is not the definitive Domino administration book. That has yet to be written. It doesn't explain in exhaustive, accurate detail how to work with and around Domino's many peculiarities.
What it does do is document how the various Domino administrative parts are supposed to work and what command options are available to you.
It's worth reading through at least once because you'll find all sorts of interesting tidbits which you may not already know. For example, NT has a setting which allows you to give foreground applications more attention than background applications, and,in theory, that should make Domino faster. It never made sense to me (if you're not logged in, how does NT know Domino is most favoured or most cursed?). And in fact it turns out that setting has absolutely no effect under NT Server, but it does affect performance under NT Workstation, which makes perfect sense. Another tidbit is that it's worth buying a Domino agent, if your backup tools provide such a thing, because you can then integrate the Domino logging tools to help you make a much more accurate restore than you would otherwise. I had simply assumed that the backup vendors (mostly an accursed lot, brothers in arms with the oiliest of used car salesmen) after having soaked you a thousand or two dollars for their main product hoped that you'd be just as foolish to let almost another thousand dollars dribble out of your pocket.
The Table of Contents is self-explantory, so I won't bother summarising each chapter. But if you need to run Domino behind IIS you'll find a very brief but useful chapter. The same is true of the ICM chapter - if you don't know what ICM stands for you're a lucky fish indeed and can skip that chapter.
My two favourite chapters are Chapter 13, which lists the server tasks and console commands, and Chapter 14, which describes in glorious detail the Notes.ini file.
There is a three page appendix on running Domino under Linux. It's worth reading before trying to install Domino on Linux, but it's obviously not going to be of much help on a Sunday evening when you're stuck at the office, your wife wants to know if you'll be home soon for dinner, and Sheila, your bright 4 year old is reminding you that you should have listened and gone with HP's OpenMail instead. But this is a minor quibble, and hopefully the author will find more useful tidbits to toss in here for the second edition.
Another useful appendix is the one on Net resources. There you'll find links to various Web sites and newsgroups, most of which I hadn't come across before, and some of them look quite promising.
If you administer Domino servers you'll want this book. You'll want to petition O'Reilly to have the author write the definitive Domino manual. If you do that you'll have to incur the wrath of his wife and children, but as he lives in Oz it might be safe to do. I'm not brave enough to do that, but, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Media reviews
"a thorough book for the Domino professional." --Jeboadiah Bell, Freelance Informer, Oct 13, 2000
"If you're somewhat new to Domino administration and are struggling a bit with it, you'll find Neilson's book very helpful...If you're more experienced in Domino administration but have some gaps in your knowledge, you'll also probably find something helpful in this book.. I commend the author and editor for how easy it is to read this book. It's not intimidating, the author doesn't speak down to you, and it's clearly written. In fact, the only mistake I found listed in the errata is about who should have received credit for the cover art. (The animal on the cover is a Dalmatian, for fans of the O'Reilly books.) So many books are rushed to print these days without thorough copy and technical editing. It's nice to see O'Reilly sticking to its standards. All in all, I found
Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell a handy aid in learning more about Domino administration. The book is well written and edited, and it's evident that the author knows the material. I suggest you consider adding Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell to your bookshelf. It's definitely worth the price." --Jim Hoopes, DominoPro, Oct 2000
