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IBM® Lotus® Domino® 7 Server & Administration

Kevin O’Connell

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IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 7 Products

� IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Core products�Lotus Notes and Domino

�Lotus Domino Web Access (formerly iNotes Web Access)

�Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft® Outlook

�Lotus Domino Designer

� IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Extended products�Lotus Sametime®

�Lotus QuickPlace®

�Lotus Domino Document Manager

�Lotus Workflow™

�Lotus Enterprise Integrator® for Domino



Take off the Gloves!

� Package and enhance tools to simplify administration

� Deliver complete open-standard based solutions on Linux

� Provide in-line upgrade of server and client

� Without requiring Rip & Replace!

Anything less is simply not enough!Anything less is simply not enough!



IBM Lotus Domino 7 Themes

� Attractive TCO�Opportunity for significant performance and scalability gains

�Major Administration improvements

� Many Valuable Enhancements�Messaging

�Security features

�Lotus Domino Web Access

� New Application Platform Capabilities�Web Services support

� IBM DB2 database integration

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Lotus Domino 7 Performance



Lotus Domino 7 Performance Goals

� Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvement Scope� Improve NotesBench scalability

�Reduce Domino CPU utilization

�Validate results in live IBM production environment

� Test Measurements conducted using�R6Mail (Lotus Notes client) NotesBench workload (6.x and 7.x mail templates)

�R6iNotes (Lotus Domino Web Access) NotesBench workload (6.x and 7.x mail templates)

�New enterprise mail workload created to measure CPU improvement

� Results in deployed environments will vary�Differences in workload

�Platform tuning factors



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Full performance report is available from the Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvements link at http://www.ibm.com/lotus/domino



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CPU Improvement for Lotus Domino 7 Notes Mail



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Lotus Domino 7 - 35% CPU reduction in IBM production systems

Lotus Domino 7 Beta 3

Lotus Domino 7 Beta 4

Lotus Domino 6.5.1

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Lotus Domino 7 Administration



Lotus Domino 7 Administration Goals

� Reduce largest direct administration costs�Server monitoring and admin costs

�Client Deployment/Upgrade costs

�User, Desktop lockdown

� Reduce largest indirect costs � Improved scalability to allow server consolidation

� Improved monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime

� Align with IBM Autonomic Computing



What’s new in Lotus Domino 7Administration highlights

� NEW !! Activity Trends

� Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring

� Improved Policy Based Management

� Smart Upgrade Improvements

� Linux/Mozilla Web Admin Client



Activity Trends Formerly available with Tivoli® Analyzer

� A capacity planning and resource/load balancing tool for Lotus Domino domains

� Gathers and analyzes Lotus Domino activity data

� Resource balance many Lotus Domino servers by moving databases across servers

� Key technologies:�Patented heuristic methods

�Visual analysis tools

�Self-healing, -optimization, -configuration

�Automated change management with full administration-cycle support



Activity Trends

Resource Balancing



Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring

� Addresses TCO by providing a means to quickly monitor and determine the health of an entire domain at a single UI location and quickly resolve problems. �Automate problem determination/analysis by feature

�Rollup, prioritize and resolve problems across servers

�Hide details until you need them.

�Make Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring checks and reporting configurable and flexible

�Pave the way for further autonomic initiatives



Screen shot of DDM



Policy Based Management

� Apply settings to multiple users based on�Organizational structure

�Explicit, non-organizational assignments

� In version 6.5�Notes Client desktop/setup: security,

registration, archiving

� In version 7�Client Policy Lock-Down for all

settings

�Mail and calendar settings

� Benefits:�Reduced cost of client support



Smart Upgrade Improvements in Lotus Domino 7

� Smart Upgrade tracking

� Governor - Limit the number of Smart Upgrades per hour (also in v6.5.4)

� Smart Upgrade server cluster failover to another server

� Smart Upgrade failover from shared drive path kit to Attachment kit.

� Smart Upgrade fields added to the desktop policy settings document.



Linux/Mozilla Web Admin

Fully featured Domino Web Admin experience for Linux web browser

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Other Domino Enhancements



Improved Email Management

� Spam management�DNS blacklists (also in version 6.x)

�Private blacklists

�Private whitelists

�DNS whitelists

� Message disclaimers

� Archiving by date



Lotus Domino Server – Security & LDAP

� Security�Single Sign-on - more flexible naming for Single-Sign-On LTPA token

�Stronger encryption in Lotus Notes RPC

� 1024-bit RSA keys

� 128-bit symmetric keys

�Programmatic interfaces for manipulating secure email

�Various ID management improvements

� LDAP� Improved performance

� LDAP server thread pooling

� DA LDAP miss caching

�Lotus Domino Domain Monitor LDAP server health monitoring



Lotus Domino Web Access

� Lotus Domino Web Access�Rich user experience and

features – mail, calendar, contacts, to do

�Offline support

�Windows or Linux

� Internet Explorer or Mozilla

� New in version 7�S-MIME security

�More IM integration

�User productivity features

�Enhanced cache clearing

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New Application Platform Capabilities



Why Integrate Lotus Domino with DB2?

� Consolidate Lotus Domino data in DB2 relational database �Leverage DB2 for storage of Lotus Domino data

�Allows enterprises to integrate Domino data with other DB2 applications

(e.g. IBM Workplace applications)

� Enable Lotus Domino Developers to build new applications�Combine Lotus Domino collaborative capabilities with DB2 relational data using

Standard Query Language (SQL)

�Tools built into Lotus Domino Designer®



Lotus Domino 7 - Platform Support

� Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server

� Windows 2003 Server & Enterprise Edition

� AIX 5.2 & 5.3

� Solaris 9.0

� zOS 1.5 and higher

� OS/400 V5R3 (iSeries)

� Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL)

� Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 8 & 9 (Intel 32 architecture)

� Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 8 (zSeries)

� Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 9 (zSeries) � (Lotus Domino running in toleration mode on 64-bit Linux)

� Currently planned for future release:� Solaris 10.0



Lotus Notes and Domino 7 -- Early Deployment

Successful large scale early deployment @ IBM

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Lotus Domino 7 - Features & Benefits

Key Features

Enhanced performance

Lotus Domino Domain Monitor, Activity Trends, Policies

DB2 alternative data store

Web Services, DB2

Expanded platform support

Key Features

Enhanced performance

Lotus Domino Domain Monitor, Activity Trends, Policies

DB2 alternative data store

Web Services, DB2

Expanded platform support

Business Benefits

Enable server consolidation

Address admin/support cost

Consolidate data

New integrated applications

Flexible deployment

Business Benefits

Enable server consolidation

Address admin/support cost

Consolidate data

New integrated applications

Flexible deployment

Functional Area

Scalability

Administration

Database

Applications

Platforms

Functional Area

Scalability

Administration

Database

Applications

Platforms



Additional Information

� Links available at http://www.ibm.com/lotus/domino�What's new in Lotus Domino 7

�Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvements

�Lotus Domino and DB2 feature

�Ferris Research: New Features and TCO Benefits of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7

�Plus much, much more

� IBM Lotus Domino and DB2 feature for Domino 7 program - developerWorks�http://www.lotus.com/ldd/d7db2.nsf



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