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Domino Program documents and schedule

Thomas Hampel
 6 September 2012

Problem: A customer reported Domino would not be responding at a specific point in time, but servers dont crash - they are unresponsive.

Analysis
: Looking into the Domino server logs at about the time when the problem reported showed that some scheduled tasks were running.
While scrolling down the logs it became clear that the compact task was blocking access to the server's system databases - in this case log.nsf - which caused the server to ignore incomming requests.

From the end users point of view the server came to an halt while from the servers point of view all was okay.


Action:
Getting Domino program documents scheduled perfect could be a long journey. Here is my recommendation on how to do it right.
Program Command Line Schedule Comments
convert -l mailprimary.ind 18:50 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Generates a list of mail files by reading people's mail files from the Domino Directory and writes the list into an IND file.
compact -A mailprimary.ind 19:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Archive data but dont reduce the mail file size, thats because compacting will be done thru another program document.
compact -B -S 20 -w 23:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Fri
Once per week, reduce the file size if there are at least 20% whitespace in the file
Exclude system DB's with option -w , for servers before 8.5.4 this requires the variable DEBUG_ENABLE_COMPACT_8_5=1

Note: Reducing the file size for every file every day will just increase the level of fragmentation and will reduce performance.
compact -b -w 23:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Sat
Make sure the white space is located at the end of the NSF file for better performance when creating new documents
Note : Do not run on Friday, due to backup.
compact -b log.nsf 04:30 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Special schedule for log.nsf after 04:00 when purge has been completed.
To make sure the white space is located at the end of the NSF file for better performance when creating new documents.
catalog 01:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Updates information in catalog.nsf
updall 02:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Updates existing views
statlog 05:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Record statistics
daosmgr resync 23:30 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Mon, Wed, Fri
Every second day resync the DAOS repository
collect At server startup only Remark: Make sure the task is not loaded in the Notes.ini via “ServerTasks=”
http At server startup only Remark: Make sure the task is not loaded in the Notes.ini via “ServerTasks=”
rnrmgr At server startup only Remark: Make sure the task is not loaded in the Notes.ini via “ServerTasks=”
(n)server -c "tell sched validate" 02:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Rebuilds the clubusy/busytime
(n)server -c "tell mtc purge 7" 00:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Purge data older than 7 days from the message tracking store





Optional Program Documents for Specific Server Types
Program Command Line Schedule Comments
(n)server -c “tell router compact” 18:00 each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Sun
This will reduce the file size of the mail.box'es, but will increase fragmentation on disk. Not recommended for servers with high mail volume.




Of course noone is perfect, so any comments and suggestions for improvements are very welcome !
Tagged with: Administration Domino Best Practice
Comments

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alessandro http:// 16/01/2015 11:31:20

I am reading your page regarding compacting log.nsf...

I think it is impossible to compact a log file when the server is up and running with a program document. But in the page that I am reading this can be achieved although I am still not understaing how.

can you pls explain in more detail. My objective is to compact the log file.. I am running on 8.5.x

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