As you might have figured out already….. I read a lot of Technotes! Â What is even more amazing is at times I can actually remember what I read and put it to use. Â Over the last week the competition for “Best Technote ever” Has been heating up.
First I thought Technote 1329568 was a contender, I mean you just have to like anything that begins “Oops, that didn’t work”.  However, it lost all originality when a couple of days later Technote 1329564 was published with the same beginning.
Now this is BRILLIANT!, I think every technote should include contact information, while my day might be ruined by a server crash, Â it would be OK if the server told me who could fix this specific issue. Â Should you run in to this particular issue (it affects Domino 8.5 on AIX) simply call 1-800-IBM-SERV Option 2,1,1 and ask to speak to Russ (unless of course you have his e-mail address or direct line), and yes I know Russ.
DAOS is great it really is, so great that I can’t wait to be running it in production, the DAOS Estimator, while a great tool for building a slam dunk business case for upgrading to Domino 8.5, takes a while to run, especially if you have a larger mail server. I have been waiting for a few days now to blog some DAOS numbers, and looks like the wait is going to be a few hours longer. So here is a list of things that I can think of that have happened since I started running the DAOS Estimator on my server: 1. Version 1.2 of the DAOS Estimator tool was released (also check out Concerns over DAOS Estimator? and the response). 2. One of my kids developed a cough and was taken to the doctor. 3. My family went away for the weekend and spend two nights away from home. 4. The NY Rangers fired their coach 5 We learnt that Lotuscript is still being developed (even though nobody actually ever said it wasn’t). 6. Another one of my kids came down with a stomach ailment and threw up all over his crib. 7. Gmail was down for a few hours and if this runs a few hours longer I will be able to add that President Obama delivers the State of the Union. OK all kidding aside to be fair…. my server contains almost 7000 mail files or mail-in databases, which occupy 4TB of space, so while I need to wait a little while longer to get the summary results from looking at the individual files I can see that the estimated space savings are tremendous. Once it finishes I will do a full write up on it’s findings. My mail file which is on an 8.5 Server has already been DAOSified, it went from 1GB to 400 MB, not a bad savings!
Browsing around tonight I came across recently updated Technote 1088423 How to place a Notes database on a CD or DVD, overall a handy technote to have around if you ever need to archive an NSF to a CD and expect to be able to open the database with out copying it back to a hard drive. For some reason this paragraph caught my eye
3. Do an operating system level copy (use a DOS or OS/2 copy command)
maybe it is time they removed the part about the OS/2 Copy command? This coming from a person who once upon a time ran an R3 client on OS/2. On the other hand maybe I should be sleeping at midnight and not aimlessly reading technotes
When you configure a Domino server to use multiple ports the order in which the ports are started can be important, while port 1352, will bind to all configured ports, and HTTP Binding is configured in the Server Document, other internet protocols (SMTP, POP3, LDAP, IMAP) will bind to the first port on the PORTS= line in the notes.ini. So for example if a Domino server is configured with two ports named public and private so the notes.ini looks like this PORTS=public, private if no further configuration is done SMTP for example would bind to the public port, however if the public port was disabled and then re-enabled, the PORTS= line would be rewritten like this PORTS=private, public Therefore on the next server restart SMTP would bind to private, most likely rendering it unreachable. There are two ways to manage the server to prevent this from happening 1. Specify the port for each protocol in the notes.ini as documents in Technote 1097004
To force IMAP, LDAP, POP3, or SMTP to bind to a TCP/IP port other than the first listed port, use the following notes.ini parameter: NotesPort=
This method was introduced in Domino 6.0 2. Specify the port order in the notes.ini as documented in Technote 1279003
The PortOrder parameter is used as a state variable to hold the location of disabled ports so that if the disabled port is ever re-enabled, it will be added back to the Ports parameter in its previous position in the list. Here’s an example: State 0: Ports=Port_1, Port_2, Port_3
