1. Customer Self Assist
with the
Domino Configuration Tuner
Harry Peebles | DCT Technical Lead | Westford, MA, USA
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2. Customer Self Assist
The Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) is a serviceability tool to
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help Domino administrators be more self sufficient
DCT identifies key configuration issues across a customer domain
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Reports contain a detailed explanation and supporting
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documentation for all captured issues
– Detailed description, suggested mitigations, pointer to related
technotes, pointer to discussion topic on Domino Wiki
The level of report completeness enables customers to correct
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potential failures
DCT provides base-line assessment for field service
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representatives when initiating customer engagements
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3. The Catalog of Configuration Rules
DCT catalog is version aware
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– Report content is adjusted appropriately for the observed
version of Domino and it's host OS
The catalog supports versions of Domino, 7.0 and higher
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Reports for unsupported versions are generated with the
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appropriately caveat that explanations and recommendations may
not apply consistently
Collection of source data configuration settings
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– Currently collecting notes.ini, server documents, configuration
documents, console commands, statistics
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4. DCT Availability and Requirements
Shipping simultaneously with N/D 8.5
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Available outside of the Domino release cycle to any customer, free
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of charge
A Notes application, delivered as a template, DCT.NTF
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Available for download, as well as being distributed with the 8.5
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Domino Administrator client
Future revisions downloaded via 'check for updates' feature
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Runs under Notes, 8.0 or higher, standard or basic client
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Is an 'observer' that requires no change to a customer domain
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configuration
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5. Welcome page
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6. Server selection and scan initiation
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7. Report summary with servers and rules
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8. Detail Report – Run web agents concurrently
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9. Detail Report – Run web agents concurrently
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10. Detail Report – Links to relevant documents
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11. Detail Report – Links to on-line reference material
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12. Detail Report – Links to sister Wiki entries
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13. Check for Updates
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14. Preferences ... optionally ignore some rules

15. Domino Configuration Tuner project status
The following link is to the DCT entry in the Notes and Domino
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wiki. Up-to-date information will be posted there regarding all
DCT details.
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/domino-
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configuration-tuner
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