Hi everyone!
First and foremost: welcome to the new decade and Happy New Year! I wish you for 2010 the following: increased server uptime, less helpdesk calls, no b-tree corruptions issues and no raid controller failures!
Secondly, this is a short post to announce the start of a new series of future blog posts. As we all know, most of us have a tradition of coming up with “resolutions” for each new year that comes along. And as traditions goes, most of us manage to find new and creative ways each year to avoid doing whatever needs to be done to keep up with those resolutions.
So, instead of trying to set myself up for failure by setting resolutions that I will unmistakably avoid adhering to (like loosing weight for example … something which I will need to do anyway), I have decided to setup resolutions for myself in the Lotus Domino arena and share them with you.
This month, I will begin a series of blog posts about things that a new Lotus Domino System Administrator should do in his (or her) environment and I will, when possible provide detailed instructions or code (when I can) to speed up the whole process. So far, I have an idea for each month and here is the tentative list of “resolutions”.
- Cleanup your File -> Db -> Open dialog box.
- How to Review and Standardize your Server Docs (hopefully in a few easy steps).
- How to Review and Standardize your Server Configuration Docs (hopefully again in a few easy steps).
- Cleanup your Monitoring Database.
- Setup Mail Statistics.
- Setup Server Statistics.
- Cleanup your Policies.
- Cleanup Person documents.
- Cleanup Groups documents (this one I am not sure how I’ll go about it).
- Review your Program documents.
- Run the Domino Configuration Tuner.
- How to Automate the gathering of information after a server crashes (I’m not sure about this one too).
If you have any ideas for “resolutions”, go ahead and share them in the comments and I might take you up and do a post on your idea.
Happy New Year once again!
Marc
