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Configuration step required for Sametime Community Server on Windows 2008

Kenio Carvalho — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:03:09 -0200

Without a special configuration step, various server applications log out from the Sametime Community server on Microsoft Windows 2008 under load

The steps bellow are from From TN 1441275

To resolve the problem perform the following steps

The TCP stack in Windows 2008 has a few new features that are not yet supported by every
hardware. The following configuration changes will set the TCP stack to work in a more "conventional" way. To do so, type from command line:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
netsh int tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled
netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider=none

A reboot is needed after making this changes.
For Sametime 8.5.1, set the following flag under the [Config] section of the sametime.ini file:

BREAK_CONN_ON_ZERO_BYTES_SENT=0

This setting is set automatically during install of 8.5.2 on Windows 2008.

For 8.5.0, a hotfix, LKRK-86RGNA, is available for part of the components: STCommunity, STMux, STOnlineDir, STUserStorage. Open a service request with IBM Support to determine if this hotfix is applicable for your environment if you are not able to upgrade to 8.5.1 or later.

How to set up a Notes client without user intervention using a scriptable setup

Kenio Carvalho — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:45:00 -0200

The scriptable setup option uses a setting in the notes.ini file to provide information to the client setup wizard. During installation, the wizard displays only the panels that users need to set up the Notes client.

See more information on this TechNote

Sametime failure to re-logon after an OS sleep

Kenio Carvalho — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:32:40 -0200

When my laptop sleep Sametime doesn't auto-reconnect.

The following flag needs to be added to the plugin_customization.ini:

com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/forceLoginTokenRefresh=false

Apache Open Office 3.4 launched

Kenio Carvalho — Tue, 8 May 2012 20:50:16 -0200

You can read about de announcement here

What’s new in WebSphere Portal V8

Kenio Carvalho — Wed, 2 May 2012 20:56:16 -0200

Websphere Portal 8 was launched and the downloads will be available on Friday .

See the what´s new in this link

Installing WebSphere Portal on zLinux - Machine z196

Kenio Carvalho — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:02:30 -0200

This is a big projet here. Last week we start the setup of servers on top of zLinux.

The machine is big a new Dinosaur z196 . Very fast.

The Repair Calendar feature in Notes 8.5

Kenio Carvalho — Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:15:33 -0200

The Repair Calendar feature fixes issues with repeating calendar entries. This functionality only works if the user is running an 8.5 Notes client and the user's mail database is based on the mail85.ntf template from Notes 8.5.

What is the Repair Calendar feature?

The Repair Calendar feature has been provided to help customers fix issues they encounter with repeating calendar entries such as meetings.

Specifically, this feature in Notes 8.5 fixes issues where duplicate repeating calendar entries exist in the mail file.

Please note that this functionality works only if the user is running an 8.5 Notes client AND the user's mail database is based on the mail85.ntf template from Notes 8.5.

For more information see the TN 1326680

IBM Lotus Notes Client v8 for Beginners

Kenio Carvalho — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:10:51 -0200

Very interesting articles of two friends who work at IBM support

IBM Lotus Notes 8 Recent Contacts and Type-ahead features: FAQs

Kenio Carvalho — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:42:48 -0200

If you want to know more about the recent contacts

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-notes-8-recent-contacts-and-type-ahead-features-faqs

Step-by-step Migration Guide for IBM WebSphere Portal version 7 from 601x.

Kenio Carvalho — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:06:43 -0200

The paper describes the steps and best practices for migrating an existing standalone WebSphere Portal 6.0 environment to a standalone WebSphere Portal V7 and should be followed by the majority of customers, even those in a Web Content Management environment.

The foundation for this document is the initial release of the V7 Information Center with additional information based on the outcome and experiences of our pre-release testing. With this document, we provide a more comprehensive guide and highlight some of the common pitfalls and mistakes when migrating.

How to stop Daos when it is stuck on a very large attachment

Kenio Carvalho — Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:15:28 -0200

Found it today on TN 1487071 but IBM doen´t tell the size of the very large attachment. I think to avoid this problem on the mail servers is to setup the max message size.

Problem

If serveral very large attachments are sent to DAOS enabled databases the daosfication process can use so much server resources as to be a risk to server function. The only way to stop it is to restart the server.

Content

Since the Daos process is event driven stopping the event in process will be sufficent, it will not attempt to daosify the attachment again. However there is no task that can be brought down to stop DAOS, the server must be brought down. If the server is clustered this can be done one cluster mate at a time while user's fail over. While the server is down look in the DAOS directory for large attachments created at the time the issue began. These can be removed.

Users who have the attachment and attempt to open it will produce messages on the console

The database Path\name.nsf attempted to access a missing file: Path\name.nlo: File does not exist

After the attachment has been removed from all servers the link can be removed from the mailfiles with the command fixup Path/name.nsf -J -D can remove the now bad links.

The DAOS catalog will need to be resynchronized after this, it is best to do so when the server is less busy/

IBM WebSphere Portal Search Engine does not crawl all the web content items

Kenio Carvalho — Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:38:50 -0200

Portal search engine fails to crawl same content that may reside in different site areas of the same library

By default the crawler considers the content to be same and will only crawl the content item once even if it resides under different site areas. To resolve this issue simply add search service property CHECK_DUPLICATES = false and create new search collection

Five years bloging about Lotus Notes & Domino and WebSphere Portal

Kenio Carvalho — Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:54:39 -0200

Five years since my first post.

I've learned that the more information you share more success you have.

Thanks to all blog readers.

Cinco anos escrevendo aqui desde o meu primeiro artigo neste blog. Aprendi com uma amiga, que quanto mais informação você compartilha mais sucesso você consegue.

É verdade o que me foi dito.

Consegui um reconhecimento profissional que jamais imaginei ter.

Obrigado a todos que estão acessando o blog pois isto só incentiva a compartilhar mais e mais informação.

Recommendation for conversion to DAOS enable a database

Kenio Carvalho — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:39:14 -0200

IBM had recommended the following command to enable DAOS:

This enables DAOS and enables attachment compression at the same time.
load compact mail\example.nsf -c -ZU -DAOS

The new recommendation is to perform 2 compacts.

First, enable compression and then enable DAOS. This is critical for customers which have upgraded from 6.5x to 8.5

load compact mail\example.nsf -c -ZU

load compact mail\example.nsf -c -DAOS

Supporting information http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21409278

The information above is from TN 1411563

After upgrade Sametime Standard to 8.5.2 Notes Basic Client cannot log in

Kenio Carvalho — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:42:26 -0200

After upgrading Sametime Server to 8.5.1 users using Notes 8.x Basic and older Notes clients cannot log in

In the [Config] section of the sametime.ini section add ST_MINIMAL_CLIENT_VERSION=6510 (or lower) to resolve this issue.

Note that all servers in the environment must have the same values for both VP_SECURITY_LEVEL and ST_MINIMAL_CLIENT_VERSION to communicate with each other.

Upgrade to Domino 8.5.3 show hex characteres on server console

Kenio Carvalho — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:39:58 -0200

When you upgrade to domino 8.5.3 debug_threadid=1 is a default value and you console looks like (see the hex numbers on the left)

Today i upgraded 3 Domino Servers and one Sametime Server. :-)

Just type set config debug_threadid=0 on the console

Vagas para Administradores Domino e WebSphere Portal

Kenio Carvalho — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:52:47 -0200

Prezados,

Estamos mapeando profissionais com habilidades em administração em Domino e/ou WebSphere Portal para atuar em projetos da Plansis.
Caso você possua tais competências e tenha interesse em participar de nosso processo seletivo, por favor preencha o documento anexo e encaminhe para:
adriani.silmarovi at plansis.com.br com o subject: Chamada para administradores
Caso você possua habilidade nos dois ambientes, envie uma versão do documento para cada produto.

Domino Panics with ’Unexpected internal error returned to logger: 0x20762010’ during Backup of Transactional Logs

Kenio Carvalho — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:32:44 -0200

This issue is documented in APAR # IC60787 where DATA PROTECTION FOR DOMINO BACKUP FAILS WHEN DATABASE IS BUSY BY DOMINO SERVER.

The fix for this problem is contained in the latest 5.5.3 release of the TDP Domino:

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/tivoli-data-protection/domino/Windows/x86_x64/v553/

Relative Technote:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=669&uid=swg21219345

TDP Domino 5.5.3 also addresses another key issue where TDP Domino may crash on files with local access protection (APAR # IC64849):

DAOS Backup and Restore

Kenio Carvalho — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:34:13 -0200

From the TN 1358548. Before implementing DAOS take care of your backup strategy

In a standard Notes® database (NSF), the attachments are stored inside the NSF file itself, and the database is self-contained. In order to back up a standard Notes database, only the NSF file itself needs to be backed up. After you introduce DAOS, the NSF files that participate in DAOS contain only references to the NLO files where the attachment content is stored. As a result, backing up the NSF alone is no longer enough. The NLO data needs to be backed up as well.

Admin Boot Camp at Plansis Belo Horizonte Brazil

Kenio Carvalho — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 21:03:19 -0200

In a few weeks Plansis will host the Domino Admin Boot Camp. I will be the Instructor :-).