ID206 5 New Tricks You Didn't Know about Lotus Notes Administrator

Here are some top Domino administration tips (including some undocumented gems!) that will make Lotus Notes Administrator lives easier. These time saver tricks will shave a few hours off our daily work so that we could do more work : )
These are just some examples of what you can do. More updates to these shortcuts in the near future.

1) Connecting Remotely to a Server directly in the Admin Client:

Add to Notes.ini
Add: RemoteProgram=C:\vnc\vncviewer.exe %hostname%

2) Cataloging All Databases: This will allow you to create views that show all databases in your domain.

Select formulas for views in Catalog.nsf included: &!(DBListInCatalog = "0") to keep those databases from being displayed.

Set Catalog_Disk_Usage=1 to have percent used logged by the Catalog Task.

3) Finding Duplicate Replicas: Duplicate Replicas on a server can cause confusion and can be tricky to find.

Option 1# use SHOW DIR command in the server console.

Option 2# Tweak the by Replica ID view in the Catalog.nsf

4) File Panel Output to Printer: No more need to do screenshot and send them to the site team. Just select the databases on the server in Admin client and hit print.

This can only be done with R7.0.2 or higher clients

User : Sort on any column and then print to produce reports

Version 8.5 allows copy and paste rich data from the files panel.

5) Update Task Tuning: The Updating task can overwhelm a notes server. How to tell if the task is overloaded?

Check the following:

Update.pendinglist
Update.DeferredList
Update.FullTextList
.Max

(If the numbers are high, then request are being backed up.

Also use 'Show STAT Update" command to see them or "Statistic Tab in the admin client. Chart them over time using Stat event generators in the Events4.nsf