I am currently working for a company that has 6 offices in the UK and offices in other places over the planet. Each location has a domino server installed with, obviously, its own ID file. All servers are on the same named network with just one address book between us.
For some reason, there’s no pattern to these server names. I’d like to implement one, but at the end of the day everything is working and if it’s going to be too much work, I’m not going to bother!
Here is a sample of some of the names:
Servers at this office:
Domino01/Company
Domino02/UK/Company
Server in Oxford:
OxfordNotesServer/Company
Servers in Korean offices:
NotesKorea1/KR/Company
Korea2/Company
Other examples
Notes1/Japan/Company
Server1/US/Company
I just want to acheive something like
Domino01/Oxford/UK/Company
Domino01/Florida/US/Company
Domino01/Tokyo/Japan/Comapny
And so on… I know the technical details of doing this but what cans of worms am I going to open by starting it? Should I just not start it? Thanks for any advice.
Subject: Moving servers to different certifiers - easy or a nightmare?
First you know Notes hierarchy right?I got this from the help file, but if you look at the name they use Country has it own part of the hierarchy.
CN=Julia Herlihy/OU=Sales/OU=East/O=Acme/C=US.
In your posting here you are putting the country in an organziational unit (OU). Do you want to do that? Also, are you making things more complicated by having the location (Oxford, Flordia, etc) in its own OU? I’d suggest to have the location be part of the server’s name. DominoFlordia or Domino-Flordia, etc.
I feel your “can of worms” include you have to construct new trusts (allow the old ones), resigning code with the correct certified ids, allow servers can talk to each other (if they are suppose to), update the ECLs, have the users certified (hope they did not encrypt their mail file or local databases – there may be a problem or too when the users goes to the new name). Also you are have OU based on locations, but there are some servers in different locations where are at the same level (the server in your location and in Oxford). The risk to me seems big, but if you plan things right it would work.
I also see that you have to get the users educated on what to expect. If you never have done this, then I would say the risk factor is going to be HIGHER. You could offset the risk by testing your changes within a test environment. This would make sure you have not overlook anything.