Hi guys, Any help on the following would be greatly appreciated. I was recently appointed the notes administrator for my company. I used to work in notes development but have very little experience on the administration side.
After a decade of neglect my company is upgrading its old lotus notes infrastructure. We only use notes for databases and not for email.
There are currently several domino servers running release 4. We only have a handful of notes databases so most of the servers are doing nothing. I was thinking of placing all of these databases onto a two server cluster running lotus notes 8. Currently all the servers communicate back to a central domino server for replication. Is this best practice? Would the two server cluster be a better approach?
Licensing. There are hundreds of existing user accounts, I’m sure most of them are inactive. As a new administrator I want to know exactly how many users I’m supporting and I want to cut the cost of licenses. Is there a way to generate a report for all user accounts not used in the last year?
Some users who don’t use a notes client log into a web enabled database. Would these users need a notes license?
The servers have literally been running for years in the background. I’m worried about backups. What would you consider to be a good strategy for backing up the server os and the notes documents? A free software solution to this would be great.
Many thanks for any advice