Lotus Foundations Start : One year later

Lotus Foundations Start
Promises from the premises......
Lotus Foundations Start a year later – Part 2

Autore: Enzo Stanzione
Professione: Middleware Administrator

Today we still talk of ..........

Start 1.1.3 #4
2
Enzo Stanzione www.stanzioneproject.com

...... we had left so!
Lotus Foundations Start?

To grow!


In one year...


We wanted to see it "On The Road"
with customers !!!!!


....Today?
We sold and installed

We know more

We appreciate it more

We understand the value and ease of use

We "love" more it

We would like to see it installed anywhere

In short ... .. we are still working .....


Lotus Foundations “On The Road”

4 .. I know .. but it is only the
beginning!

Infrastructure for DPDay 3

.. and now
we're off!


Infrastructure for DPDay 3
The master and slave
servers are hosted in
the 'aquarium', ie in
the 'IBM Innovation
Center on the side.
Call Massimo Colorio
of IBM to learn more!


Hardware News !
Really easy to install.

Everything written is real

Two models to suit your needs

Our experience on my blog
www.stanzioneproject.com
• Available!


from Lotuspehre 2009...!


Software News !
We are on version 1.1.3 # 4 and by the end of the year out release
1.2

We are in the 1.2 beta program so if I can I will keep you updated.

Addons: Finally something interesting!

News in 5 points.


Software News! (follows)
Lotus Foundations RUN : Vmware Server 2.0

Scalable Services

Branch Office 1.1.0a

Reach Server 1.0.0a

Developer toolkit to deploy Domino pkgs


The Lotus Foundations Run feature provides users with the ability to
run Windows applications on a Lotus Foundations server.
When you find that you want to use the functions of idb and the
ease of user management, but the client has an application that has
to run on a Windows operating system.

A VMware server runs in an NVS environment.

The user interface within the Webconfig console provides the ability
to control the virtual server and customize configuration and backup
settings.
Note: For the Lotus Foundations Run add-on, Lotus Foundations Start must be installed on a
hardware platform and not as a virtual machine itself. VMware Server 2 for Linux does not work
on a virtual installation of Lotus Foundations Start.


What can you need:

2 GB of physical memory (in addition to what is required for Lotus
Foundations Start).

A license key from VMware for VMware Server version 2 for Linux.

Lotus Foundations Run installation package.

VMware Server 2 add-on for IBM Lotus Foundations Run 1.1 installation
package.


WebConfig console : Add-ons section

https://192.168.1.100:8043/webconfig


Vmware Console

https://192.168.1.100:8043/webconfig


Scalable Services
Definition
Lotus Foundations scalable services are not intended to replace the functionality provided
by Microsoft Windows domains.

They are designed with the intention of making Lotus Foundations more scalable by
centralizing the administration of a group of Lotus Foundations servers.

Scalable services employ a master-slave network model, enabling a single master server to
centrally manage all users and licensing for multiple slave servers.

There are three main features of Lotus Foundations scalable services:

• User synchronization
• Domain Name Service (DNS) synchronization
• Scalable services licensing and user licenses


Scalable Services
WebConfig console : Scalable Services section


Scalable Services
WebConfig console : Node Status


Scalable Services
User synchronization
Lotus Foundations scalable services helps you centrally manage user
and team information from the Lotus Foundations scalable services
master server. The synchronization of users and team includes ALL user
configuration information, including the following information:
• Username
• Password
• Full Name
• Team membership
• Administrative rights
• Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) setting
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP) setting
• Drive mounting
• Disk quota


Scalable Services
DNS Synchronization (Domain Name Service)

This feature includes the ability to propagate workstation host names to the other nodes so that
workstations and servers may be addressed by name across an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) virtual
private network (VPN) rather than just by Internet Protocol (IP) address.

The master accumulates lists of all host names from each slave, combines these lists with its own list of
local host names, and distributes it to each of the slaves that has DNS Sync enabled. To resolve
situations in which there are identical host names on different servers, DNS Sync sorts the list of host
names such that hosts that are local to the current server are resolved first. That is, on a slave, local
host names take priority over host names local to the master which, in turn, take priority over those on
other slaves.
DNS Synchronization allows a scalable services region with multiple locations to use a single domain
name across the entire region. By synchronizing with the master server on specified intervals, the slave
servers also acquire the ability to recognize the region’s domain and propagate it throughout the
region.
This makes it even easier to recognize all the servers by name, such as master.domain.com,
slave1.domain.com, and slave2.domain.com, rather than having each node using their own domain
name.


Scalable Services
Scalable Services and end users licensing
User license management is simplified with scalable services. One user license is automatically
synchronized to each slave for each user (or team that has its own password) synchronized to
that slave. This means that in a typical setup, the master server is purchased with sufficient user
license so that each user/team has one and slave servers do not need to be purchased with any.
The master scalable services node requires user licenses for each user in the region.

User accounts that are no longer being synchronized to the slaves are not automatically deleted
(and hence may use a user license on the slave). This is not of great consequence because the
number of user licenses a slave has allocated to it depends on the accounts that are being
actively synchronized. That is, extra (old) accounts on the slave are locked out.

By using scalable services, you can convert the Lotus Foundations user licenses on the master
server into network user licenses. You no longer need to worry about user licenses for any of the
slave servers, as they will automatically inherit any required user licenses from the master server
for all users controlled by the master server.


Branch Office
Definition
Lotus Foundations Branch Office is designed to be used by a branch
office location connected into an existing primary Domino Enterprise
server for the purpose of local replication and sending and receiving
email and other Lotus Domino features.

It is assumed that you already have a configured Domino Enterprise
server capable of interacting with secondary Domino servers and that
you have full administrative access to the infrastructure that you are
working with.

It must be used as a ″spoke″ within an existing Lotus Domino Enterprise
server ″hub and spoke″ infrastructure


Branch Office
Definition (...follows)

It must connect into a hub that is a Lotus Domino
Enterprise server or IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server

It can be used with up to 500 users

The Lotus Foundations Branch Office server cannot be
clustered


Branch Office
Installation: how we have to do

Install Lotus Foundations Core and after Lotus Foundations
Branch Office 1.1.0a

Copy to / local / notesdata the file server ID, generated by the
Domino Enterprise Server

Enable remote configuration of a Domino server and make the
first setup as additional server

After the configuration, administration is done using the Domino
Administrator from the server that we can consider the Primary


Reach Server 1.0.0a
To know
Resolve problems and questions through clear, high-quality
communications

Access distributed teams in real time

Communicate quickly with anybody on the network

Work with others as if they are in the same room

Offer access to expertise and knowledge throughout the organization

Provide all of this within a security-rich system that can help minimize risk


Reach Server 1.0.0a
Integrated services
Lotus Foundations Reach Server è un servizio nativo che permette di avere i
seguenti servizi di comunicazione :
• Company-wide instant messaging and presence
• Lotus Sametime awareness and chat features on a Microsoft Windows
Mobile device, Research in Motion BlackBerry device, Nokia ESeries, or
Sony Ericsson mobile device
• Rich text, time stamps, spell check and emoticons
• Multi-way chat
• Built-in VoIP and point-to-point video
• Out-of-the-box integration with IBM Lotus Notes
• Optional file transfer
• Chat histories
• Location awareness
• Contact list with type-ahead and search
• Contact business cards


Reach Server 1.0.0a
...depth
It installs like any other applications that run on Lotus Foundations Start.

Requires a minimum 2GB of RAM and Lotus Foundations Start 1.1 or higher

It consists of two parts:

• The server side
• The connect client
• The client can be distributed stand-alone or integrated into the
Lotus Notes Client

VOIP systems can integrate with existing (but I have not tried yet!)


Reach Server 1.0.0a
WebConfig console : status
For Domino Admin!
As you can see the server Reach
(Domino Sametime server is reachable
on port 13520th!

Users depend on the configuration of
the Foundations Start (Domino) and the
creation of groups with ST prefix xxxx is
dedicated to internal management.

It is subject to servicing standards
Domino and is immediately added to
IDB Backup.


Reach Server 1.0.0a
WebConfig console : Where should configure


Reach Server 1.0.0a
Here's how you can distribute the client St Connect 8.0.2 Fix 1


Develop and deploy Domino PKG with Toolkit


Tips & Tricks
Customers told us they have problems with Lotus Foundation,
but in the end the fault was theirs.
Here are some "false" anomalies!

1 Slowness in transferring files from LF to MAC and vice
versa.
2 Crash IMAP service (Domino IF5 solved it!).
3 TimeZone and update time.
4 Problems downloading mail from external POP3.
5 Interpretation of logs and where they are.


Public resources (others?)
http://www.lotusfoundations.com (IBM)
http://www.lotusfoundations.com (IBM)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/foundations/support/ (IBM online Support)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/foundations/support/ (IBM)
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfndswiki.nsf/ (IBM)
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfndswiki.nsf/ (IBM)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/foundations/ (IBM)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/foundations/ (IBM)

My Blog http://www.stanzioneproject.com


Lotus Foundations Support : they are really fast and accurate in their
responses (latency support 4 / 6 hours, and there's time zone)
Michele Peschechera : my colleague who followed me in this adventure
and that is my support "technical heavy" testing and study of the product.
Xerum Srl : my company that believes in the product and continues to
bring in the market Lotus Foundations.


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