-i option allows the estimator to run on an indirect file which contains a list of databases to run against.
-c options causes the estimator to write attachment data to a CSV file for later processing. This is up to 65% faster to acquire data.
-a option analyzes a CSV file created with the -c option. This option can also be used to analyze a set of CSV files using an &os;.ind&os; file to list the CSV files.
-p option generates an estimate of the estimate by running against a percentage of databases and extrapolating the results.
Something that IBM hasn&os;t pointed out in the technote is that it appears that using the -c option will allow for you to run multiple instances of the Estimator and then offload the analysis to a different server. Consider that you have multiple mail directories. If you run the estimator against each of them using the -c option, this will likely finish faster for acquiring the data. Then, you should be able to copy those CSV files to another box and use the -a -i option to analyze the multiple CSV files without hogging more CPU on your production mail server. Remember, it took Mitch Cohen around 5 days to run the estimator on a big server with 7,000 mail files. So, having that task not perform the analysis on a mail server would definitely help out!
By the way, indirect files are one of the most under-utilized options with Domino. Look into them and start using them!
If youre thinking of implementing DAOS, do this first...
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 4:56p Chris Whisonant Actually, you may want to consider running this on your servers this weekend if you havent already implemented DAOS. Get it out of the way... :)br /ibr /load compact mail -c -ZU/i - While youre at it, throw in thei -v -n/i switches too to enable body and design compression. And make sure that youve enabled these settings in the advanced properties tab of the templates so that the compression options do not get turned back off by the design task.br /br /You should no longer use the i-ZU/i switch [read] Keywords: ibm
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Easy Way To Manage ACL or Advanced Properties For a Folder (SNTT)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant One of the nice tricks with the Domino Administrator Client Files tab is the ability to update ACLs and properties for all databases in a folder and sub-folders. To do this, just right-click the folder and choose from the list of available options. Such as Access Control gt; Manage:br / a href=https://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/manageacl-1.png target=_blankimg alt=image src=https://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/manageacl [read] Keywords: acl
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ikeyman Not Allowing 2048 bit keysize
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant Earlier today I was renewing the SSL certificate for BleedYellows IHS server. But I ran into a slight issue in that the IBM SSL Key Management utility (ikeyman) was only giving me the choice of 512 or 1024 bit key length. But now, 2 years later (wow, time flies!), GoDaddy requires 2048 or 4096 bit requests and does not accept a 1024 bit request. This is good to know, for sure! After a quick use of my google-fu, I was able to find a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21304144th [read] Keywords: ibm
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How To Speed Up Your Domino Server And Reduce Corruption
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant This is definitely an age-old recommendation, but it is something that most customers have problems with. OS-level Antivirus. IBM has finally published a technote (1417504) a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417504Recommendations for exclusions when running Operation (sic) System Antivirus/a. This will definitely be handy to be able to show a customer direct instructions from IBM and not quot;justquot; recommendations from a third party (who sees this all the time). img [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't forget to update transaction logging format in 8.5
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 12:00p Chris Whisonant For Domino 8.5 + there is a new notes.ini setting to create i/o optimized transaction logs for platforms with a block size different than the default 512 bytes. The notes.ini variable is: Create_R85_Log=1. With notes.ini variables, also make sure you're using the Configuration Document to set these instead of directly in the notes.ini. [read] Keywords: document
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How Do I Find Info On Notes and Domino Fixpacks?
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 10:40a Chris Whisonant After the release of Notes and Domino 8.5 Fixpack 1, there has been some concern expressed over customers and partners not being able to see the fixes at the devWorks fixlist site. If you go there currently, you can see the following releases listed: Notice that there are not any SPR's listed as fixed for 8.0.2 FP1, 8.0.2 FP2, 8.0.2 IFR1, 8.5 FP1, or 8.5 IFR1. But there is a way to see what you need for your upgrade planning. You need to navigate to a somewhat hidden "notices" view at this UR [read] Keywords: document
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