IBM is hosting an Open Mic conference call with Lotus Development and Support Engineering to discuss “Domino upgrade deployments and best practices”.
The Open Mic call will be held on Wednesday, September 15. The call will take place at 11:00 AM EDT (3:00 PM GMT) and will last for 1 hour. This call is designed to be an open question & answer format, so bring your questions.
Refer to the following technote for phone and web conference details:
Technote: 1433026
Title: Open Mic call: Lotus Domino Server upgrade best practices - 15 September 2010
We got a question in the web conference about any AS/400 “gotchas” with 8.5.2. I’m sorry we missed this question during the session, but I hope this will help:
The new name for the AS/400 / iSeries operating system is simply IBM i. The latest release available and supported with Domino 8.5.1 and 8.5.2 is IBM i 7.1. There are no specific “gotchas” with Domino 8.5.2; however, some things to be aware of include the following:
A fix for SPR JSTN7XRQYX (Fixed an issue that would cause many kvoop processes) is in 8.5.2 for all platforms except IBM i. A separate hot fix is under development and will be released shortly.
Full text indexes will be re-built with Domino 8.5.2.
There is a new step to accept the software license when installing the server option (8.5.2 is option 12) using RSTLICPGM or LODRUN.
Be aware of and plan for potential program conversion impacts when installing and upgrading Domino.
The “classic” JVM is no longer supported; use only Java version 6 (J9, 32-bit).
Refer to the following helpful technotes and links for more information to familiarize yourself with Domino 8.5x as well as IBM i 5.4, 6.1 and 7.1:
After upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5.2, users stop receiving SMTP mail. Your Domino server CPU spikes on SMTP and may appear to be hung. nSMTP can spike the CPU anywhere from 50% to 100%. Restarting the Domino server may resolve the hung task temporarily, but it is possible that another message will get stuck and the CPU will spike and appear to be hung again.
This was reported in SPR #LMIL88Q62X and has been fixed in Lotus Domino 8.5.2 IF1.
The fix is only needed if your Domino Server is running the Domino SMTP Task and is receiving Inbound SMTP Mail. This problem does not happen on all 8.5.2 SMTP servers. For more information on how to diagnose this problem and how to download the Interim Fix, refer to the following technote:
Title: Users stop receiving mail and SMTP task on server shows 50-100% CPU utilization
Subject: ID Vault and Shared Login Open Mic - October 20
Hi All,
I am working through the web conference chat transcript now and I notice a lot of questions on ID Vault and Shared Login. I just wanted to announce that we’ll be holding an Open Mic on those topics on October 20. Technote 1432993 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432993 will be updated with more info as we get closer to the date.
If we are only going to support shared login, the ID Vault seems redundant unless a need is to use encryption with a notes id file (via the vault.) Will there be a better way to manage ID’s if we start to rely on windows to manage the username and psw.
Subject: NSL and the Notes ID vault are orthogonal features
Notes Shared Login handles encryption and decryption of the ID file while the ID is stored “at rest” on the local client workstation, whereas the Notes ID vault vastly simplifies and improves ID file management, backups, synchronization across multiple copies (including ID files in mail files for DWA/Traveler/BES), password resets, and much more.
Managing the user’s password is only a tiny slice of the pie – the ID file is chock full of keys, certificates, and other data critical to the operation of the Notes client, and managing the ID file is where the Notes ID vault shines.
Can you post the technotes on setting up DA to implement shared login that will support Notes clients (8.5.2) and iNotes access without a need to manuall set the HTTP psw. Briefly explained leaving the HTTP password blank and point to an LDAP in the DA. Thanks.
Subject: BES and additional Shimmer fields on contacts
Our environ, Notes/Domino 8.5.1 FP3 on 32bit to support BES 5.
Blackberry users can add addtional fields but they do not come over to the Notes client personal address book. They seem to all be contained in the PAB doc field called ShimmerFields. Isn’t there a way to map all the blackberry fields to additional notes contact fields ?
(i.e. “Work 2 phone|Work2Phone”
“Work 3 phone|Work3Phone”
“Home 2 phone|Home2Phone”
“Home 3 phone|Home3Phone”
“Work fax 2|WorkFax2Phone”…
These are the additional test fields created in the blackberry contact.