Building the IBM Lotus Domino 7 Infrastructure

Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this course include completion of the IBM Lotus Domino 7 System Administration Operating Fundamentals (N7D750) course or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.

Course Description:

Students will install and configure a basic infrastructure with a single domain using an existing deployment plan. Students will also set up replication and mail routing in the single-domain environment.

The target audience for this course is system administrators new to Lotus Domino who are responsible for:

• Initial installation and setup of a basic Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 7 infrastructure.
• Set up of Domino Mail servers in the corporate intranet and extranet (i.e. Internet) environment.

This course includes the following modules:

Planning a basic Domino infrastructure

• Considering deployment scenarios

Installing and setting up the first Domino server and administrator

• Designing a hierarchical naming scheme
• Installing and setting up the first Domino server
• Installing and setting up the Domino Administrator client
• Creating a database to track Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes licenses

Setting up servers in the Domino domain

• Creating additional certifiers for servers and users per an established naming scheme
• Creating server IDs per an established naming scheme

Adding Notes workstations to the Domino domain

• Creating internal Domino user IDs per an established naming scheme
• Installing the Notes client software
• Setting up the Notes workstation
• Creating user groups
• Specifying desktop settings using policies
• Backing up ID files

Setting up the administration environment

• Specifying administration preferences
• Allowing and restricting server access
• Allowing administrators access to the Domino Directory
• Recording server activity in the Domino Server Log file

Setting up the replication schedule to synchronize Domino system databases in the domain

• Designing a replication topology
• Creating a group for server replication
• Scheduling replication
• Monitoring replication

Configuring intranet Domino mail routing

• Creating Domino Named Networks
• Routing mail between Domino Named Networks
• Scheduling mail routing

Configuring internet mail routing

• Enabling SMTP routing
• Configuring basic and advanced settings for SMTP routing
• Restricting mail flow to and from the Internet

Enabling message controls

• Controlling mail delivery
• Setting mail restrictions
• Creating whitelist and blacklist filters
• Implementing message disclaimers
• Enhancing transfer performance
• Enabling mail journalling
• Understanding how mail rules are executed
• Creating mail rules
• Stopping the processing of mail rules
• Using the blacklist tag and whitelist tag mail rule conditions
• Establishing mail quotas
• Archiving mail using policies

Enabling server and messaging monitoring

• Testing mail routing
• Enabling message tracking
• Monitoring mail delivery
• Monitoring mail statistics

Troubleshooting common mail setup problems

• Testing mail connections
• Restarting the Router
• Forcing mail to route
• Managing dead and undelivered mail