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ICONUK and the State of Domino Web Development
Caution Long Post, I’m stuck on a train. The best User Group yet. I am just back from a very impressive ICONUK. I can honestly say that it was the best LUG that I have been to. The best part for me was the informal discussions within the community. It is a time of...
The moral of the story – do some monitoring
We have been battling with one of 6 Domino XPage servers that is running a consistently higher load average than the other servers. The performance was OK from a customer point of view but differences in systems are always a worry. We tried everything I could think of...
Auditing for IBM Notes mail rules sending emails externally
A customer asked us to help with a tool to audit for mail rules that were forwarding emails externally. I had a look around and found the very good openNTF Mail Rules Analyser application from Thomas Hampel Having looked at it David Harding and I felt that it was...
URGENT : Chrome Bug 570622 affecting our users – is it affecting yours ?
The bug reported by David Leedy appears to be affecting our users significantly. Are your users reporting screen freezes in XPage applications in Chrome ? If so please "star" this bug ( top left corner ) to raise its profile. Even if you are worried that it might...
Advice required for a blog article – which Domino metrics would you monitor ?
I am making good progress with a series of articles on using Nagios style server monitoring for Domino. One of the options that I have is to use a custom Nagios plugin to pull back values from the following list of "show Stats" metrics on Domino. Which 5 ( of the 1103...
Really pleased with Opsview Atom for monitoring XWork Servers
I have been looking at options to automate the monitoring of our servers. If you are looking for lots of Domino functionality there is a great system called Vital Signs but I was also interested in something based on the Open Source Nagios platform I opted to try the...
VMWare ESXi Development Server on a Lenovo T420
For some time I have been interested in setting up a development VMWare ESXi server on a laptop to help with testing etc. The problem in the past has been that the ESXi install only comes with drivers for high end network cards and the process of adding the required...
XPages Document Save Error may be a document locking error
Moral of the story - read the logs This one had us stumped for a while so I though I would post it. We had an inconsistent error on an XPage application where it threw a save error even though the Author fields were correct. The error was Exception occurred calling...
If you are using an Apache Proxy for Domino please check HTTPEnableConnectorHeaders
Jesper Kiær has posted a very compelling video showing how the HTTPEnableConnectorHeaders = 1 notes.ini parameter can be used to gain access to Domino servers. We no longer use the Apache proxy scheme as the SSL support in Domino has improved but I tested this on one...
Scheduling XAgents on a Linux box using Cron
We used scheduled code in our XPage apps to do things like pre-building dashboards and storing the data in the application scope. There is no simple way to schedule Java code that has been written for use with XPages. The best solution I have found has been to use...