Last modified: 08/09/2007

Best practices

  • Fulfill your teams Operating Level Agreements (OLA's)

    A system that is stable, secure and that delivers a high availability needs to be managed accordingly to your process for supervision.
    DomainPatrol will help you delivering your liabilities with these tools:
    - Finding incorrect administration server settings so that your Administration Process works correctly.
    - Examining signatures on agents and other design elements so that your execution control lists work as you planed (and what code will stop working when certain developers ID’s are removed).
    - Getting in control what scheduled and web agents are running, which do not run and correcting all agent issues to get an spotless environment that is easier to administer and performing at its best.
    - Running reports to keep your systems neat and clean.

  • Need to upgrade your Domino version and be in control of what databases need to be tested?

    Time for an upgrade of the Domino version and the information regarding what your organizations demands on what systems (i.e. databases) needs to be tested is not entirely up to date or even non existent. With the tools for documenting applications and responsibility roles you can get an overview of whom to contact to help you deciding what applications to test and not to test and even sub optimize your work by giving managers access to update the documentation or parts of it. You might want to have your own design on the documentation parts of DomainPatrol as the database design is open for you to modify. You have planed but maybe not introduced a system to categorize your applications corresponding to your organizations demands on importance. Using DomainPatrol you can set metadata on your database inventory to prioritize and consequently view these to easier make different decisions.

  • Feel that your Domino investment has degraded over time, maybe even performance is not what you expect.

    Existing troubles are found using reports and views for what templates being used where, and not used as you planed. Not only is the incorrect set ups found easy, with DomainPatrol you can apply corrective changes directly. Want tools to change advanced database properties such as turning of read marks on web only databases on any server and databases anywhere in one go – no problem with DomainPatrol. Finding and fixing other waste of system resources such as what databases are full text indexed and how often updates are done. How many scheduled agents are there and on which servers are they scheduled and what agents are not running. You also want to be sure there are no duplicate replicas on same servers.

  • Maybe there is a radical change just round the corner such as outsourcing, consolidation of systems or a project for SOA enabling your Notes Domino systems.

    To start up a new project for performing considerable changes in your Domino based installation you need an inventory that is representative of the whole environment and views to display what your are interested in. You also want to be sure your existing systems are set up correctly and take care of incorrect set ups. Maybe there are databases that no longer are used so your project scope may be narrowed down somewhat. DomainPatrol is the database inventory and you have full right to make changes so that your situational needs are fulfilled. The tools for documentation will give you control over your management procedures and corresponding roles. DomainPatrol also includes a lot of action tools that lets you easily apply mass changes to databases, templates, agents and ACLs across servers in your Domain.