DomainPatrol Tips and Tricks

2008-01-21

DomainPatrol 4.0 released during Lotusphere Opening General Session

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We have put in a tremendous amount of work to be able to release version 4 of DomainPatrol.

The goal since 6 months has been to be able to have the final version 4 released at Lotusphere this year - and now we have finally arrived.

The release is now gold version and available for public download at http://domainpatrol.org/download

Here is a preview of the new UI.
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Now I'm just going to sit back and listen to the rest of the presentations and announcements at the Lotusphere Opening General Session

Peter Närlund
Product Manager, DomainPatrol

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2007-12-11

DomainPatrol v4.0 beta 1

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Today I have released DomainPatrol v4.0 beta 1.

Our goal with this release is to provide basic functionality in DomainPatrol to use it as a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for Lotus Notes & Domino.

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You can download the database template at http://domainpatrol.org/download

Please report any problems or issues in the forums, as soon as possible, as we are working day and night to be able to release the gold version in time for Lotusphere 2008.

Best regards,

Peter Närlund
Product Manager, DomainPatrol

Posted by Peter Närlund At 23:49:05 Location | Permalink | Comments (0) |

2007-10-01

OpenNTF.org vs. Commercial Licenses ...

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There has been questions raised on OpenNTF.org whether open source should be able to combine with commercial ventures.

I find this discussion about the principles of open source to be of high importance to us in the IBM Lotus Notes & Domino community.

Please follow the thread and leave your opinion on this topic.

http://www.openntf.org/projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectView!ReadForm&Start=1&Count=300&ExpandView&Query=DomainPatrol~Discussion

Posted by Peter Närlund At 12:33:27 Location | Permalink | Comments (0) |

2007-09-02

Charting in DomainPatrol

Category Charts

I can't hold my breath any longer - I have to tell someone.

This is a sneak preview of the charting capabilities that is to come in the next release of DomainPatrol.

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Well someone would probably say - Hey that's cool you learnt how to use frames and there is a picture too!

The chart is actually not a picture at all, but a live applet that polls statistics from the server every minute.

This particular chart monitors Mem.Allocated and Mem.Free

... and it is independent of what OS your client is running on.

... and it all runs in the 6.5 client or later versions.

... and it is open source.

Do you have a wish for a specific chart in DomainPatrol?

Posted by Peter Närlund At 22:45:30 Location | Permalink | Comments (1) |

2007-08-31

How to set update frequency on full text index for more than one database?

Category Full Text Index

I found a question on the Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum about How to set update frequency on full text index for more than one database?

When reading the answers to this question - there are no simple solutions to this problem.

In DomainPatrol there is a view that show all databases that are FullText indexed on your servers.

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Using this view you can sort all FullText indexed databases on the "Updates" column that contain the update frequency information.
Select the databases that you want to change the update frequency on and use the action "Tools ...\Create or modify FT-Index ..."

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In the dialog you can choose to change the update frequency for the Full Text Index.

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When you click on OK - an agent will go through all selected databases and recreate the Full Text Index for them according to the selected settings.

As the DomainPatrol database is open-source, you can take a peek at the agent that does the job and re-use the code if you want to.

If you only want the Database template it can be downloaded at OpenNTF.org - The full installer including the freeware scanner can be downloaded at http://domainpatrol.org/download

Posted by Peter Närlund At 00:28:46 Location | Permalink | Comments (0) |

2007-08-17

How to get a grip on advanced database properties and make changes on multiple databases at once.

Category Advanced Database Properties

I found a question in the "Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum" on IBM developerWorks about advanced database properties and inheritance of those from templates.

Advanced database properties can be difficult to manage for large Lotus Notes & Domino installations as there is no tool within the Domino Administrator Client that will give you an overview of the advanced database properties for databases. There is also no tool within the Domino Administrator Client that will help you change the advanced database properties on multiple databases.

When you configure the DomainPatrol scanner to read database details (Figure 1) the advanced database properties will be stored in the database document (Figure 2) in the DomainPatrol database.

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Figure 1.

Figure 2.

You can use the information in the fields from the "Advanced Options" tab in the database document and create a customized folder where this information is displayed. (Figure 3). Base the new folder on the "Databases" view (Figure 4, Figure 5). This will copy the action tools including "Modify Database Option ..." to the new folder from the "Databases" view. Then add columns to the new folder to display the advanced database options that you need. (Figure 6).

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Figure 3.

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Select the database document that you want to work with from the "Databases" view and drop them on the new folder (Figure 7).

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Figure 7

Now you can select databases in the new folder and change an advanced database property for all the selected databases at once (Figure 7, Figure 8).

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