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This has been resolved. The server needed a complete reboot, not just the HTTP Task. This is now working as expected.

Having an issue with HCL Domino 12 and installing an SSL Certificate using the new process. Have reviewed the documentation and appear to have completed al steps?

I have used the CertMgt and CertStore to create new SSL Certificates for the website. However the website is still using the old kyr file and is showing the old certificate.

I have restarted HTTP task and the server is still not using the correct certificate. Cannot reboot the server atm (waiting for an outage).

When I check CertMgt using

tell certmgr show certs

It says that the certificate is valid. Also, when looking in the certstore,NSF is shows that the certificate is valid and OK. It simply (?) seems that the server is now using the correct certificate.

I have checked the kyr file and that has not been updated, however I believe that it is no longer updated so that might not be an issue?

This is the first time using certmgr - server was running v10 last year so we used the openssl commands.

I have 2 Domino Servers as follows:

• ServerA: On LAN. Runs SMTP & router, accepts inbound and outbound email.
• ServerB: External web server. Runs router task only.
• Configuration document for Server A has:
  • SMTP used when sending messages outside of the local internet domain: Enabled
  • SMTP allowed within the local internet domain: All messages
  • Servers within the local Notes domain are reachable via SMTP over TCPIP: Always
• Configuration document for Server B has:
  • SMTP used when sending messages outside of the local internet domain: Disabled
  • SMTP allowed within the local internet domain: Disabled
  • Servers within the local Notes domain are reachable via SMTP over TCPIP: Only if in same Notes Named Network (because Always is the only other option)

Connection document is setup between both servers. Port 1352 is open in both directions and replication occurs regularly.

As both servers are on the same Notes Named Network (NNN), my understanding was Notes would route mail natively from ServerB to ServerA as it knows ServerA is the mail sender.

The failure message on ServerB is:

'No route found to domain external-domain.com from server ServerB.  Check Server, Connection and Domain documents in the Domino Directory.'

• I am able to initiate a pull and push from ServerA to ServerB, and from ServerB to ServerA. This was my proof that 1352 is open in both directions.
• I don't want ServerB to be able to route external mail and is blocked by firewall. I want ServerA to send all mail.
• My understanding was if they are on the same NNN then no specific connection documents would be needed, and in fact are ignored.

Any suggestions for what I am doing wrong?

Our network has a NetGear SRX5308 Firewall / Router with no local DNS server. We have an external webserver one of our applications connects to and sometimes there is a delay in the resolution of the DNS name. Once the connection is made for the first time then the subsequent connections are very quick. Is there a way to create a host entry on the SRX to manage this resolution (I have not managed to do this yet). And if not, would anyone recommend a method to do this (without necessarily setting up a DNS server?).

Our environment: - 1 application server (internal) - 1 web server (external) - 10 desktops - basic config.

No directory. Computer names set directly on computer, static IP addresses configured on router.

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Running Domino 8.5.3 and have found one of my databases has never purged any deletion stubs. I have checked the following:

• Updall is set to run in ini file at 2am.
• No errors when Updall runs.
• Remove documents not modified not modified in last days is set to 90. I have changed this number of days and re run updall. No purging.
• I have checked the stubs using ScanEzi - they date back to 2005.
• I have run a fixup, compact and updall.
• Using ScanEZ I can see that the purge interval is set correctly, and that they documents should have deleted -2000 days ago (lol).
• The issue appears to be server wide. Not just the main application, but also names.nsf and other custom apps.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Here is my environment:

• My email server is hosted externally (not on Lotus Domino) - let's call it domain.com
• I have an existing Lotus Domino Application Server (9.01) [ServerA]
• A new Domino Application Server (9.01) [ServerB]

Configuration:

• Any emails generated by the application are sent to an ISP (authenticated) using the 'Relay host for messages leaving the local internet domain' setting on the configuration document (with authentication). This is only configured for the administration server.
• I have some group mailboxes that receive Domain.com email via Andy Brunner's excellent POP3Collect solution. This downloads the emails from the external host to the Lotus Domino server and routes them to the group mailboxes. In order to achieve this, it modifies the email so that it goes to a fictitious domain called InternalDomain.com. I then have mailin databases configured with email addresses (@internaldomain.com).
• In order to configure the Domino Server to send emails, it does not know that the server is on domain.com (because if it did then it would try to route emails to the Domino server). I had to create a Global Domain Document for InternalDomain.com. All emails to domain.com then get routed to the ISP for delivery.

My issue:

• This has all worked perfectly well. Then I added another server. Both Domino servers are on the same notes named network. I assumed that Domino would know that in order to route emails it would send them to the server configured to send mail to the ISP. This is not the case. Email is dying on the new server, and is not going to the admin server for delivery.
• I would like to continue to route all mail from the one server. I have thought about using a SMTP connection document, however my ISP requires me to authenticate in order to send mail, so I see the only option as having the configuration document setting for the ISP details.
• How can I get the new server to send all emails to the admin server for delivery?

Additional info re configuration document:

• I had the setting 'SMTP allowed within the local internet domain' in the configuration document set to 'Disabled' as I believe that would mean it will force the routing to be done via Notes Routing, not SMTP. If I change it to 'All messages' then this has no impact on the mail not becoming dead.
• The 'Servers within the local Notes domain are reachable via SMTP over TCPIP' setting is set to 'Only if in same NNN' - again no difference if it is different.
• If I change 'SMTP used when sending messages outside of the local internet domain' to Enabled then the server tries to route the emails directly from there. Not routing them through [ServerA] as required.
• The mail continues to die, and I get the message 'No route found to domain gmail.com. Check Server, Connection and Domain documents in Domino Directory.

If there is an alternative way I can route the mail to the external SMTP host (using a username and password) then I am open to that.

I am sure something dead basic os being overlooked and may have been set historically that may be preventing this.

I am trying to install a SATA SSD into a hot swappable server (Dell PowerEdge T320). The drive is not visible within the Windows 2008 R2.

Server details:

• Dell T320 PowedEdge
• PERC H710 Raid Controller
• Samsung SSD 128GB SSD 850 Pro

I have updated the BIOS - still can't see the drive there. Also can't see it within Disk Management. The drive caddy is fully inserted.

Dell tell me that although they also sell Samsung SSD drives, that because I did not buy it from them it, 'most likely' will not work as they only sell SSD drives that work with their specific servers.

Any suggestions on how to make this drive usable?

I am configuring a Domino web server. I have configured it as follows:

• Web server has no connection to admin server. Connections are initiated by the Admin server.
• Admin server has a connection document, replicating core system dbs and the application.
• Connection document is also configured for mail. The admin server is the server configured to send mail, so I want the email to be collected from the web server when this connection initiated by the admin server is made, and for the email to simply wait on the web server until this happens.
• Both servers are in the same notes named network.

I have a situation where the email is dead and is not being collected by the admin server as it cannot find a route to deliver the email. I thought this would be covered by them being in the same notes named network, with the admin server being the only one with config to send mail.

I don't want to have a connection from my web server to the admin server (for security reasons) - can anyone recommend a suitable configuration for this scenario?

Our ISP only accepts 5 emails per transmission. If I do a manual send (route *), then I usually get the error:

57 Retry( 2) SMTP  [$Retry MY_ISP.COM] (Push)
Last error: 421 4.4.2 Message submission rate for this client has exceeded the configured limit
Next retry: 14/07/2014 08:46:21 AM

The retry interval appears to be 30 minutes after I do a 'route *'. I would like it to retry again in less time.

I have checked the configuration document Router/SMTP > Restrictions and Controls > Transfer Controls > Initial transfer retry interval - this is set to 15 minutes.

I have asked the ISP if they can change their config to accept more emails but do not expect this to change. If we send bulk emails then this causes a delay in mail sending.

Can anyone advise: - Why the interval is 30 mins instead of 15 mins (as configured)? - Can I change it to retry every 5 mins? - Any pearls of wisdom?

I have 2 Dell PowerEdge Servers, a Dell T310 and a Dell T320 - both running Windows 2008 Server. My main application runs on the T320 (with Raid 1 on the data drive - configured using Dell utility), and I would like the T310 as a failover machine.

So - in my ideal world I would like the following:

• If T320 dies, I would like to remove one of the data drives (raid 1), put in in the T310, change the IP address and turn on the application.
• Backups are performed on USB and taken offsite.
• Looking for something quick so small business is not offline for hours.

This is not a problem from an application configuration perspective, however I am not sure about the concept of pulling out the mirrored drive and putting it into another server.

The reason I thought of this, was the size of the application does not lend itself to cloud storage. Also, the data cannot be replicated easily between both servers. We have about 300Gb of data.

Can anyone advise how this can best be done? Is this a silly idea?

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I have our mail in a hosted exchange environment. We have an internal application server which I need mail delivered directly to it for autoprocessing. The application does not allow pop configuration, I need the actual email delivered to the server for it to then be autoprocessed. I am looking to have some specific email addresses (but not all) routed to this server to allow some auto processing of some inbound emails.

We are a small company - limited infrastructure. Only 1 server. No DMZ etc...

This is the solution I have thought of:

I have 1 domain. Create a sub-domain (eg mail.domain.com), and forward the emails initially for [email protected] to [email protected], and then have those emails routed directly to the mail server. As we do not have a DMZ, I was thinking of using MessageLabs, and having them route mail to the sub domain (test.domain.com) to the company firewall - and only allow connections from MessageLabs.

Any thoughts? I'm trying to not overcomplicate this, and essentially just want 4 email addresses to be delivered to a specific mail server. Any other ideas?

I have found some information on this but have not found the exact answers to these questions.

Background

• I have installed backup exec 2012 (with agents for databases)
• I have configured a storage pool, with 2 USB drives (1TB)
• The backups are configured to backup to one of the 2 drives (depending on which one is connected)

I have 2 questions:

• How do I get Backup Exec to tell me which disk to insert? I have used tapes before and it told me then which tape to use? I was hoping this was available for disks too. (Whilst there are only 2 at the moment, there will be more).
• And then how do I get Backup Exec to delete old backups when the disk if full.

News just in...

Checked with Symantec, and they do not support USB drives for Backup Exec. Symantec does support USB RDX backup devices, and it 'usually works' with standard USB drives (as per the configuration recommended in this post).

Can Lotus Domino be setup as a reverse proxy server? I have 1 Domino server (web facing) which I would like to configure as a reverse proxy server for an IIS application running on another server?

Is this possible, or do we need to use an apache (or another) web server to do this?

I have checked the IBM docco - they speak about it for iNotes however I do not think it's the same thing.

I have implemented DAOS on a Lotus Domino Server (8.5.3 FP2) as follows:

Lotus Domino Server Document:

• Store file attachments in DAOS: Enabled
• Minimum size of object before Domino will store in DAOS: 64000 bytes
• DAOS base path: E:\DAOS
• Defer object deletion for: 30 days

Transaction logging is running, and the specific test database has the following advanced properties set:

• Domino Attachment and Object Service (ticked)
• Use LZ1 compression for atachments
• Compress Database Design
• Compress Data

I have restarted the server. When I run a compact -c, it compacts the database, but does not reduce the size. I have checked the DB in Windows Explorer (60Gb) and the size is the same pre and post. I have checked the directory (E:\DAOS) and it is 35Gb in size.

When I run the command 'Tell DAOSMgr Status tmp\test.nsf', I get the following response. From looking up on the net, I believe ticket count = 0 means that the db is not really DAOS'ed?

Admin Process: Searching Administration Requests database
DAOSMGR: Status tmptest.nsf started
DAOS database status:

Database: E:\Lotus\Domino\Data\tmp\test.nsf
Database state = Synchronized
Last resynchronized: 03/09/2012 02:49:13 PM
Ticket count: 0
DAOSMGR: Status tmp\test.nsf completed

I have run fixup on the database. When I have tried to run the DAOS estimator it has always crashed. This was a problem with larger databases on earlier versions of domino, but not anymore.

Can anyone tell me why the size has not reduced? Am I missing anything?

I have implemented DAOS on mail files (on a Lotus Domino Server), but not on a bespoke notes application. The estimator (version 1.5) keeps crashing when I try to run it on a 40Gb and 60Gb database (both have loads of attachments).

3 questions:

• Can I run DAOS on a non Notes mail database?
• If some of the data is archived to another database, on the same server, then will the link to the data be preserved?
• Should I be concerned implementing, without having a chance to run the estimator first?

Thanks

I have an application running on a Domino Server (8.5.3) on Windows 2008 64 bit O/S.

Since the recent upgrade to 2008, the agents with OLE integration to MS Word no longer run when the Domino Server runs as a service. This does work when it's run as a standard application.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this is happening.

My immediate thought is Windows 2008 - so I have tried the following:

• turning off UAC
• changing the environment variable for the location of the temp (and tmp) directory to be c:\temp
• made sure that MS Word runs as administrator
• tested running MS Word in compatibility mode

The error occurs when the system is trying to edit the document. This all works fine when Domino is running as a local application.

Does anyone have any other thoughts for what I can change?

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I am looking to trial having a mailbox on a Domino server - prior to moving the whole domain over upon successful proof of concept.

The current environment has:

Mail hosted, available via POP3 or IMAP. Domino users all send mail from one mailbox. The Domino environment has been configured as follows:

All users share the same email file (as all emails must go from that one user). There is a global domain document with a fictitious domain, ensuring that all email, including emails on the same domain, are routed via the SMTP server. I have looked at two products to pull the emails in from the mailbox, and put them into the mail.box on the server for distribution. I need to be careful on the configuration here as I still want emails to be routed to the external provider.

My proof of concept will span 3 mailboxes, so the one alternative is to set up 3 clients, all configured to receive email and then replicate that onto the server. This is a little messy.

Anyone got any recommendations?

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