Best practice to move a Domino Server to a new Windows Server with different IP-Adress

JThiel · April 22, 2025, 6:00am

Hello,

where can I find a best practice to move a Domino Server to a new Windows Server on another Hardware with different Servername and IP-Adress.

In all HowTos i found the new server has to get same IP like the old one.

In my case the old server has to stay with its IP for an other application.

Domino has to change to a new server because upgrading domino needs a newer windows server version.

Regards,

JT

anon-1954 · April 22, 2025, 6:08am

Below documentation may be helpful to you for this requirement

Reinstalling or moving a Domino® server from one computer to another

https://help.hcl-software.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/admn_reinstallingormovingadominoserverfromonecomputer_t.html

How to migrate Domino to another machine by Replication method

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0028842

About IP change, this documentation will be helpful.

Considerations for changing a server IP address

https://help.hcl-software.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/plan_considerationsbeforechangingaserversipaddress_c.html

Thanks and Regards

Niraj V Jani

anon-1954 · April 22, 2025, 6:09am

In addition to above, if you still require to keep the old domino server with old IP address, it is good to setup an additional domino server and then move data to that server.

JThiel · April 22, 2025, 6:23am

Hello Niraj.

thank you for the quick answer,

I know this documentation you shared.

When I copy the Data director to the new server, delete dcontroller.ini and dconsole.ini, adjusrt notes,ini (controler-entries, different path to prog and data) and do installation with this,

The domino server starts without problems as application, but it did not start as a windows service.

I need to know how to fix this.

Regards,

JT

anon-1954 · April 22, 2025, 6:32am

Can you please elaborate further what exact error do you face when starting domino server as service?

Just check this document if you are running into that problem.

"HCL Domino Server" Windows service does not start up when the operating system is rebooted

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0035321

Thanks and Regards

Niraj V Jani

JThiel · April 22, 2025, 6:35am

last time, I did this, I got following message:

frklein · April 22, 2025, 6:45am

Hi Jürgen,

when the service fails to start, the server controller was unable to bind to the IP.

Check the latest dcntrlr*.out file in data to see what the issue is. Usually you will find something like "Cannot bind to <old host name>:2050"

The connection port is defined in dcontroller.ini but you cannot edit it there. It gets its value either form the server document or from notes.ini and will always be overridden.

Adding the old old host to the hosts file can temporarly fix it to get the server up.

Shrikant · April 22, 2025, 6:35am

Can you share the screen shot of the Domino service and the error message when try to start the Domino server as service.

Shrikant · April 22, 2025, 6:26am

Plz check below KB and see if that helps:

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0039514

frklein · April 22, 2025, 6:32am

Short form checklist:

On the old server: Change IP and hostname in server document , server configuration document and web site document
On the old server: Change translog and DAOS paths if you plan to move them to a different drive/path
Check 3rd-party systems if they may be accessed by the new server, e.g. ESA relay access tables, firewalls, etc.
Shut down old server
Move data to new server
Move notes.ini and jvm customizations to new program dir, create dir if neccessary
On new server: Search notes.ini for occurences the old IP and change it accordingly
On New server: Search notes.ini for and Directory pathes and check / change them
Check settings in dconsole.ini / dcontroller.ini
Edit C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
Add a line
<domino name> <new hostname> <new fqhn> <old hostname> <old fqhn>
Install Domino on top of existing new directories
Change DNS alias of <dominoname.mydomain.com> to point to the new host
Start server. If the service fails to start, check dcontroller.ini host setting

JThiel · April 22, 2025, 8:18am

Hi Friedhelm,

that looks good, I think change in the server document will solve my problem.

thanks you

Jürgen

anon-2247 · April 22, 2025, 7:40am

Hello Juergen Thiel

Hope you are doing well

Please refer to the following HCL Support link for Migrating Domino server to another machine as follows

https://help.hcl-software.com/domino/12.0.2/admin/admn_reinstallingormovingadominoserverfromonecomputer_t.html

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0028842

I hope the above links will help in answering your concerns

Thanks & Regards

Nishant Shendre

chaitanya · April 22, 2025, 9:16am

Hello,

I hope the following settings will help resolve the issue of Domino not starting as a service after upgrade:

In dconsole.ini: Set the IP address of the server for the "LocalHost=" parameter, including port 2050, as shown below:
```
LocalHost=192.168.72.1:2050
```

In notes.ini: Add the following parameters:

ServerController=1
TCPIP_ControllerTcpIpAddress=192.168.72.1:2050

After migrating Domino to the new server, please ensure that these settings are updated in the respective files with new IP address to start Domino as a service.

For additional information on issues related to starting Domino as a service, please refer to the following article: https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0038711

Regards,
Chaitanya Y