GetFileAttr not working for large files?!
Fri, May 11th 2012 12:10p Patrick Tippner Coding a little script to accomplish some administrative tasks, I seem to have stumbled across some odd behaviour when dealing with large files and GetFileAttr in Lotus Script. It seems that GetFileAttr is not able to handle files where the physical size is above a certain limit. I've tested with some files trying to figure out the limit, and i believe that it's probably 2GB on our system running Lotus Domino 8.5.3FP1 on SLES11SP2. When I try to read the attributes of a file with a size above [read] Keywords: domino
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New Traveler Fix Pack 8.5.3.2
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 5:09a Patrick Tippner There's a new Fix Pack for Lotus Notes Traveler available from IBM: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Lotus_Notes_Traveler_APAR_listing#8532 http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Lotus_Notes_Traveler_8.5.3.2 The package is available via Fix Central. [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5.3 Domino Server installs client templates
Thu, Oct 6th 2011 7:09a Patrick Tippner With release 8.5.3 of Lotus Domino, setup installs some templates to the server which you had to put there manually in the past, in case you wanted to register roaming users via Lotus script (read more on that here). The following templates are installed: bookmark.ntf (v8.5.3 - 16.09.2010) feedcontent.ntf (v8.5.2 - 01.04.2010) notebook8.ntf (v8.5.1 - 24.09.2009) pernames.ntf (v8.5.3 - 18.05.2011) roamingdata.ntf (v8.5.1 - 21.07.2009) [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't panic!!!
Tue, Aug 9th 2011 6:09a Patrick Tippner This morning, I realized that one of our servers had trouble with an agent that seemed to be out of control. It was listed as 'fatal' in the server-monitoring view of Lotus Domino Administrator. I tried to stop the zombie-agent using tell amgr cancel "dbpath" 'agent' but that didn't seem to stop it. The agent was still showing as being executed. I tried stopping the agent-manager-task itself, but that didn't help either - it even made the situation worse, since the agent-manager couldn' [read] Keywords: agent
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Synchronizing Database Quotas
Tue, Aug 9th 2011 6:09a Patrick Tippner Since we heavily rely on database quotas, I find it quite annoying that there's no built-in mechanism to synchronize the quota values (and many other database properties) between different servers in a cluster. Because of that, I wrote a small Lotus Script agent to accomplish that task. Here's the code: Option Public
Option Declare
Sub Initialize
Dim dbdir As New NotesDbDirectory("mail01/srv")
Dim s As New notessession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim db2 As NotesDatabase
Set db = [read] Keywords: agent
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8.5.2 cannot replicate with R5 server
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 6:09a Patrick Tippner Beware of updating to 8.5.2 (including FP1 and FP2) if you still need to replicate databases with a R5 server. Pushing data to the R5 server will not work as expected! See: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO59916 Quote: "In 852 a new flag UPDATE_2_MARK_READ_NEWNOTE is being passed on the call to NSFNoteReplicateExtended. This is caught and the "This function is not implemented on this version of the server" error is set. Working on a fix." At least for 8.5.2FP1 (on l [read] Keywords: ibm
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RegisterNewUser and Roaming-Users
Tue, May 10th 2011 1:43p Patrick Tippner A while ago, we built an application that automatically registers users in our domino directory when our human resources department hires new employees. Now that we changed all of our users to be roaming users, I thought it would be easy to adapt our script, in order to immediately create roaming users during the registration process. Unfortunately, I encountered a strange error after adding the corresponding code to our script: .IsRoamingUser = True .Roamingcleanupsetting = REG_ROAMING_CLEANUP [read] Keywords: agent
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ECL mystery
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 6:56a Patrick Tippner Last week, we wanted to roll out a new security policy containing an administrative ECL to all of our users. My tests indicated that we would have to sign the policy and the corresponding settings document with one of our server's id-files, because the only entry allowed to modify the local ECL was something like "*/SRV/ORG". We didn't want to bother out 1000+ users with unnecessary warning messages. I thought the best way to achieve this would be to create a local replica of our Domino Dire [read] Keywords: domino
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DAOSmgr resync
Tue, Feb 22nd 2011 5:14a Patrick Tippner Today, I had to restore a database from backup to one of our production servers. We're using Tivoli Storage Manager for Lotus Domino and have DAOS enabled for that server. The documentation says, that a database restore makes it necessary to start a resynchronization of the DAOS catalog. Is it just me who feels uncomfortable about issuing that "tell daosmgr resync" on a production server during the normal office hours? As far as I understand, this means that the DAOSmgr has a look at every s [read] Keywords: domino
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Managing userIDs in Lotus Notes databases
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 6:41a Patrick Tippner Based on a post by Leif Lagerbrand ( which you may find here: http://www.ls2capi.com/web/ls2capi/ls2capihome.nsf/vwThreadsMain/37A36B2F89E940E8852571EA002FAEF7?OpenDocument ), I once wrote a quick-and-dirty Lotus script agent in order to manage Lotus Notes user.id-files in their various possible locations depending on the usage purpose. As soon as you get in touch with Notes-encryption and/or S/MIME-Encryption in Lotus Notes in combination with Roaming-, Blackberry- or iNotes-users, this little [read] Keywords: agent
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