Friday, October 20, 2006

Domino Administrator/Manager Blogs, Where are you?

Where are the real managers of the network? If you manage or have managed a Domino network, or a Notes network for those of us who have been around since before Domino was born, what issues do you see still today? Are you blogging it?

I see the same ones as I saw years ago.

Basic issues:
Person doc entries incorrect(names or domains or emails or duplicates), basic flaw but pervasively causes 90% of all mailbox problems and in some cases server failures. Usually this is caused by turnover in jr. admins over time.

Connection docs that make no sense or have incorrect IP addresses. Check your logs for this issue.

Server crashes at night same time or close to it - usually an Agent is at fault but maybe an index needs to be recreated.

One user "sees" data, another doesn't - template issues, ensure proper propagation of standard versions. Sometimes related to different versions of clients running 6.5.3 vs. 6.5.5.

Also make sure you have 2 things set up from day one. Server automatic restart on the first tab of the server doc. and notification to you via email or however you want it, when the server fails and restarts.

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