I have a question about the adminp process and the admin server specified in the ACL. I have searched the forum and the knowledge database but havent found an answer.
E.g I have 10 Dominos in the same domain. One server is dedicated admin server which has been specified in the names.nsf and the admin4.nsf databases.
The 9 remaining servers are located on different sites around the world. The 9 servers share different replicas.
Question: Can I have the dedicated server assigned as Adminstration Server in the ACL on ALL databases located on the remote servers WITHOUT having a replica of the databases on the Administration Server? => Can the Admin Server carry out work on remote servers “over the air” (without replicas)?
Subject: If you are asking if a server will function without a replica of admin4.nsf, no
If a server comes on-line and does not find a replica of admin4.nsf it will create a replica stub from the administration server of the domain which it will then use to create a full replica of the database. Is there a reason that you feel that your Domino domain would function more efficiently in the configuration you describe?
Your goal of having one server function as the admin server of every database in your enterprise is not one I would recommend, given that you apparently don’t have or want to spend the disk space and/or replication bandwidth to create the necessary admin replicas.
Mailfiles, for example, default their admin server setting to the home server they (primarily) reside on. Leave that as it is. Set the admin server of all your system dbs to the domain admin server, and for applications, one generally selects the replication hub to administer those dbs when using hub/spoke topology.
I don’t see how it could work on other servers when it doesn’t have a replica out there, but then again, I’m not exactly sure what it is specifically that you’re trying to do.