Lotus Domino Administrator on Mac?

Vladislav Tatarincev  25 January 2012 12:29:37

During my last visit to US, I become a happy owner of Macbook Pro :)
Lotus Notes client is available for Mac,it is ok.  But not Designer and Admin. Virtual machine or Terminal server is nice option, but still not so flexible solution.

Concerning Administrator, I have a wild idea, What if ? :) Create just a composite application and bring at least 80% of Admin tasks to this application?
Lets make small analysis:

* People And Groups  -> Names.nsf Views with some actions. Majory of actions is a miniform, or AdminP request.
* People and Groups -> Policies and Settings :)  view again :)
Even password reset in ID Vault will work, since can be done via API / LotusScript.

* Files -> we can get List of all database (NotesDBDirectory class) and make needed changes with LotusScript. (Quitas, Console commands like compact, etc).
* Server Status - Post commands to server, :)   seems to be easy, Out Put also should be easy, LIVE console... hm... need to thing a bit.
* Server Tasks - can be done as well.
* Messaging - > Mainly views from server/system databases and console commands.
* Replication -> views, map?
* Configuration -> again mainly Views from Domino Directory.

if application is done via configuration documents like below,  then we make it damn flexible. you can customize your favourite commands for tasks.  (like compact is done with you favourite parameters)
Traveler task -> Possible commands "Tell Traveler quit","tell Traveler restart" "tell traveler defrag " "tell traveler version"
Compact task -> Possible commands "compact -c", DAOS enabling right way, LZ1 then DAOS

You can tune NSF Admin (lets call this app this way) to show commands and tasks you need.



Who pays the bill??? Why it is needed to bring Designer and Admin to Mac? I think bringing Designer to mac, will make it more popular between students, and in US where MACs were always more popular than in other regions. We will get more apps in future, Lotus community will get new minds,new people,  not spoiled by Coffin making technologies, that are oriented to RIP documents in MS systems.

May be somebody already done something like this?  How do you register people? Lotus Admin, or Custom application? How do you Sync you Cluster? Manual commands or Application again?

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