Planning names for servers and users in a Domino site | HCL Digital Experience

While installing and integrating Domino and collaboration products, you must decide on a naming scheme for your servers, plan for and create several important administrative users, and create passwords for those users. Learn about server naming and a table of identities you can use while installing and configuring servers, with recommendations for which names need to match for better performance.

About server naming:

When your portal site contains multiple IBM® Domino® servers, their names should be reasonably short and should contain no spaces. The server names will be seen by your users, so make them descriptive when possible. If the Domino® server name is not the same as the physical server name, you must make sure that the name is resolvable through DNS. For example, you could name a hub server in Chicago acmehub, which, combined with the server's domain, could yield a fully qualified host name of acmehub.chicago.acme.com. You would configure an entry in DNS for acmehub.chicago.acme.com to point to the physical IP address of the server. It is not a requirement to make the Domino® server name the same as the physical server name, but if it is not, Server Connection documents are required in all other Domino® servers and the Lotus Notes or Domino® Administrator client software running on them.

Table of user identities

Some names in the following table are specified during the Domino® Server Setup procedure you perform after installing the Domino® LDAP server for the first time. If you later perform an upgrade installation, configuration choices from the first-time Server Setup will be used; you will not see screens presenting these choices again.

Table 1. User identities
Identity	Description	Recommendation
Organization name for a Domino® LDAP server	This name is specified during the Domino® Server Setup procedure.	See About server naming. Example: `dom_hub/chicago/renovationscorp`
Administrator of a Domino® LDAP server	This administrative user identity is created during the Domino® Server Setup procedure.	Tip: For convenience, you could make this the same as the user name of an administrator in HCL Portal (PortalAdminId in the wkplc.properties file) Example: `wpsadmin`
Bind user OR IBM® WebSphere® Application Server administrator OR both	This identity is used by HCL Digital Experience to access the LDAP directory. Both LDAP directory and security configuration for HCL Portal involve modifying values in the `wkplc.properties` file. This user identity is created during the Server Setup procedure.	Should be the same as the user ID of an administrator for the WebSphere® Application Server (WasUserID in the wkplc.properties file) Example: `wpsbind` For information on how to create the Bind user or Admin user, use Search to find the topic on preparing a Domino Directory server on `<platform>` (for example, Preparing a Domino Directory server on Windows™).
HCL Portal administrators group	You should manually edit the group `wpsadmins` to `wpsadmins/yourorgname`. This edit creates a fully distinguished LDAP name of `cn=wpsadmins/o=yourorgname`. This change must made when using a Domino® LDAP directory, because Domino® does not store groups in the hierarchical format that HCL Portal expects.	Should be the same as the group name of an administrator for all administrators for the HCL Portal server (PortalAdminGroupId in the wkplc.properties file) Example: `wpsadmins/renovationscorp` Note: In the ACL of the Domino® Directory this group should have Author or Editor access, and the Role Types. These settings allow the administrator group to write and edit Person documents in the Domino® Directory; these are necessary tasks in a portal that uses subscriber management.
Sametime server administrator	This user name has administrative access to the Sametime server and can modify Web pages on the server.	Example: `stadmin`
Sametime Web Conferencing administrator	This user name is created in the Domino® Directory (names.nsf) on the Sametime Web Conferencing server and is used only for integration of Sametime. Note: In the ACL of the `STConfig.nsf` database, this user name is a Person/Manager, and has, at minimum, role(s) equivalent to those specified for the servlet entry of the meeting API in the `servlets.properties` file on the Domino® server.	Example: `st_webconf_admin` Recommended: At least the [SametimeAdmin] role