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Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
Administration tools
Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
The Administration Process
The Administration Process is a program that automates many routine administrative tasks.
Managing Administration Process requests
Managing administration process requests involves approving requests, forcing requests when they must be processed immediately, and checking the Administration Requests database for errors.

Administering
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
- Administration tools
  Topics in this section describe the tools you can use to administer a Domino® server.
  - The Domino® Administrator
    The Domino® Administrator is the administration client for Notes® and Domino. You can use the Domino Administrator to perform most administration tasks.
  - The Server Controller and the Domino® Console
    The Server Controller is a Java-based program that controls a Domino® server. Starting the Server Controller starts the Domino server it controls. When a server runs under a Server Controller, you can send operating system commands, Controller commands, and Domino server commands to the Server Controller.
  - The Administration Process
    The Administration Process is a program that automates many routine administrative tasks.
    - Specifying the administration server for the Domino® Directory
      Choosing the administration server for the Domino® Directory depends on your network setup, the available equipment, and the anticipated changes that will be made to the Domino Directory via the Administration Process.
    - Setting up the Administration Process
      You complete a set of tasks to set up the Administration Process.
    - Administration Process support of secondary Domino® Directories
      Domino® supports the use of secondary Domino Directories for maintaining user names and groups that you want to store in a directory other than your primary Domino Directory, NAMES.NSF. For example, you may want to maintain Notes® users with Notes IDs in NAMES.NSF, but maintain Web-only users in a secondary Domino Directory.
    - Processing administration requests across domains
      The Administration Process for the Domino® Directory must be set up on a server in each domain.
    - Setting up ACLs for the Administration Process
      Each administrator who uses the Administration Process to perform tasks must have the appropriate access rights and roles in the Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF), secondary directories -- if applicable, Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF), and the Certification Log database (CERTLOG.NSF).
    - Modifying the Action field in the Access Control List (ACL)
      The Access Control List (ACL) dialog box for Notes® (.NSF) applications contains an Administration Server field and an Action field on the Advanced panel. Use caution when modifying these fields.
    - The Administration Requests database
      Use the views in the Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF) to sort and examine requests in many ways.
    - Managing Administration Process requests
      Managing administration process requests involves approving requests, forcing requests when they must be processed immediately, and checking the Administration Requests database for errors.
      - Accepting or rejecting name change requests
        There are two situations that are unique to user name change requests. One situation generates a request to revert to the original user name, another situation generates a request to retract the user's name change. You are required to accept or reject these requests whenever they are posted to Administration Requests database (ADMIN4.NSF).
      - Approving an administration process request
        Check the Administration Requests database daily for requests that require approval.
      - Forcing an administration process request to run
        You can force an administration process request to run by issuing a command from the Domino® server console.
      - Checking for errors in ADMIN4.NSF
        Check the Administration Requests database daily for errors that appear in response Log documents marked with a red X.
      - Reprocessing a failed administration process request
        You can attempt to reprocess a failed administration process request.
    - Customizing the Administration Process
      You can customize the Administration Process.
    - Statistics generated during administration request processing
      The Administration Process records statistics to help you monitor the request processing activity of the administration process tasks.
    - Administration request messages
      The response Log documents in the Administration Requests database contain error messages that describe any errors that occur during the processing of an administration request. Error messages also appear on the console of the administration server. Administrators who want to be notified when one of these events occurs on a server, can create an Event Handler document in EVENTS4.NSF to define how they want to be notified.
    - Administration Process requests
      An administration request is created by the administrator performing an action; it represents an administration task and is run by the server task AdminP (Administration Process). When an administration request is generated, it appears in the Administration Requests database.
  - Domino® server commands
    This section describes the Domino® server commands that are available, as well as methods of issuing those commands.
  - Domino® server tasks
    The information in this topic describes Domino® server tasks and their defaults in the NOTES.INI file.
  - IBM® i server commands
    You can use IBM® i server commands to manage Domino® with IBM i.
- Managing users
  The Administration Process helps you manage users by automating many of the associated administrative tasks. For example, if you rename a user, the Administration Process automates changing the name throughout databases in the Notes® domain by generating and carrying out a series of requests, which are posted in the Administration Requests database.
- Monitoring servers
  This section describes how to use the tools and features that help you monitor a Domino® system.
- Managing servers
  Manage Domino® servers by performing any of these tasks.
- Managing databases
  Topics in this section describe how to set up and manage Domino® databases.

Managing Administration Process requests

Managing administration process requests involves approving requests, forcing requests when they must be processed immediately, and checking the Administration Requests database for errors.