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Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Planning your Notes® client deployment
Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the IBM® Notes® client.
Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Linux™
Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.

Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
  Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate IBM® Domino® into your existing environment.
- Planning server-to-server connections
  Servers must connect to each other to exchange data, for example to replicate databases and exchange mail. You can create connections between servers across a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), by using a pass-through server (a server that acts as an intermediary server between a client and its destination), or over the Internet. Create a Server Connection document whenever you need to establish any new or additional server connections. You can modify this document when necessary.
- Planning directory services
  IBM® Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
- Planning a mail routing topology
  IBM® Domino® offers you considerable flexibility in configuring your mail system infrastructure, allowing you to use IBM Notes® routing, SMTP routing, or both, for internal and external messages.
- Planning a cluster
  When planning a cluster, it is important to consider the performance and ability of your hardware. The cluster must have enough CPU power, memory, and disk space to handle the cluster traffic and the number of databases and replicas required.
- Planning the TCP/IP network
  The default TCP/IP configuration for an IBM® Domino® server is one IP address that is globally bound, meaning that the server listens for connections at the IP addresses of all NICs on the computer. Global binding works as long as the computer does not have more than one IP address offering a service over the same assigned TCP port.
- Planning the NetBIOS network
  The IBM® Domino® network is compatible with NetBIOS, a set of IBM session-layer LAN services that has evolved into a standard interface that applications use to access transport-layer network protocols.
- Messaging overview
  The IBM® Domino® mail system has three basic components: Domino mail servers, Domino mail files, and mail clients. The Domino mail server is the backbone of an organization's messaging infrastructure, acting both as an Internet mail server and an IBM Notes® mail server. Domino provides standards-based Internet messaging through its support of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). At the same time, Domino supports Notes mail through the use of Notes routing protocols -- Notes remote procedure calls (NRPC) -- and the Notes rich text message format.
- Planning your Notes® client deployment
  Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the IBM® Notes® client.
  - Servers and clients to install and order of installation
    Use this as a tool when installing servers and clients for IBM® Notes® users.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Windows™
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed, as can the IBM Domino® Administrator and Designer clients.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Linux™
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.
    - Notes® installation directories for Linux™
      Recommended and default IBM® Notes® installation and upgrade directories on a Linux™ system are as follows.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Mac OS X
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional features can also be installed.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Citrix
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.
- Planning security
  An important aspect of planning security for your Domino® environment is understanding the tasks and features involved with securing each type of resource.

Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Linux™

Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes® functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.

Notes® is installed on Linux™ using either a deb package or rpm package. See Installing and upgrading Notes® on Linux™ in the related links.

For related upgrade information, see Upgrade Cookbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes® and Domino® 8.5.x in the Notes® and Domino® wiki.

Additional considerations are as follows:

You must be logged in as a root user or switch user to root before installing Notes®. After Notes® is installed, non-root users can open and use Notes®.
Shut down all applications before installing or upgrading to this release of Notes®, including anti-virus software.
When installing Notes® from the product CD or DVD onto an RHEL 5 Linux™ client, mount the media drive using exec as a gconf mount option. You can then insert the Notes® installation media and run the installer by typing ./setup.sh.
You can install Notes® in a multi-user environment. Single user install is not supported.
Shared network installation is not supported for Notes® standard configuration.
Installation and use of Notes® on a USB drive is not supported for Notes® standard configuration.
Notes® roaming user does not support switching user ID.
The install destination path cannot contain any of the following characters:
\ ; : % # < > , " ! | ?
Only one instance of Notes® should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall Notes® and reinstall. If uninstall is not successful, see Cleaning a previous or partial Notes® installation from your client in the related links.
Consider using the autostart capability described in the related topic on reducing Notes startup time for Linux