A Portal to a Portal

Whitepaper - Driving adoption of Lotus Connections

2010-02-05T07:51:00.001Z

Thanks to Stuart McIntyre for drawing my attention to this document: -

<snip>

Enterprise social software is gaining practical currency now as analysts' auspicious forecasts begin to be realized with the first wave of early adopters. This new class of software taps informal interactions and relationships among workers with complementary interests, skills, and knowledge, offering new ways to engage the collective intelligence of organizations towards achieving business ends. As such it represents an evolutionary advance in collaboration as a means to higher productivity and competitiveness.

The industry's first integrated suite of enterprise social software, IBM Lotus Connections, became available in June 2007. Featuring five Web 2.0-based components - Profiles, Blogs, Dogear (social bookmarking), Communities, and Activities — Lotus Connections provides a full palette of capabilities that help people find expertise and information and build new relationships based on business needs. Since coming onto the market, sales of this product have continued to be robust. And now there is a growing body of deployment tips and best practices new purchasers can employ to promote steady adoption and productive use of these tools in their own environments.

</snip>

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/news/driving_adoption.html

Resources for administrators and developers - WebSphere Portal 6.1.5

2010-02-04T18:05:00.001Z

The Portal Wiki has a nice set of resources for administrators and developers, both of which are worth bookmarking, as useful sites to go visit when the need arises.

Creating External Facing Web Sites Using IBM WebSphere Portal

2010-02-04T17:36:00.001Z

Whilst looking for something completely different ( a performance class for WebSphere Portal ), I found this recently published wiki article: -

This IBM Technote links to a wiki that addresses considerations for creating external facing Web sites by using IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1.5. The wiki focuses on areas related to external facing Web sites versus topics that might apply to only internal facing sites.

The wiki begins with a brief overview of the differences between internal and external facing Web sites. Then it provides an overview of the factors that contribute to successful Web sites. Next the wiki provides more technical content related to Web Content Management and Web 2.0 considerations. Next a discussion is presented about the various UI frameworks supported by WebSphere Portal and personalization for the user.

This wiki includes an extensive discussion related to search and the integration of search engines. In particular, Section 8 covers site analytics and optimization. The wiki concludes with information about mobile device support. In addition, this wiki includes examples, window captures, and code samples based on various scenarios.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Table_of_Contents

Crazy Error: VMware Infrastructure Web Service at "http://localhost:8222/sdk" is not responding

2010-02-03T20:08:00.001Z

A good tip from Kenny Smith that may well save your bacon - I have definitely had this problem in the past, but am not 100% sure that the suggested change to /etc/hosts fixed it for me but ...

http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com/2010/02/crazy-error-vmware-infrastructure-web.html

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 6 by Anthony Chaves, my closing comments

2010-02-02T19:53:00.001Z

As per my previous posts here and here, I completed this book a few days ago, and would summarise my review as follows. This is an excellent book that really digs into the depths of In-Memory Data Grids (IMDGs), with specific focus on the WebSphere product.

The book is broken down into discrete and logical chapters: -

Chapter 1 What is a Data Grid

A good overview of the overall Data Grid approach, with an explanation of the architecture, and its benefits when compared to relational databases and In-Memory Data Bases (IMDBs).

Chapter 2 The ObjectMap API

A deep dive into the core API behind the IMDG concept, with relevant Java code samples

Chapter 3 Entities and Queries

Using the SQL-like Query API to interact with the Data Grid

Chapter 4 Database Integration

Comparing the Data Grid with relational databases, including the costs/benefits e.g. latency of memory access vs. disk access etc.

Chapter 5 Handling Increased Load

How an IMDG can scale up and out

Chapter 6 Keeping Data Available

How availability non-functional requirements can be met with replication

Chapter 7 The DataGrid API

How IMDG breaks the traditional mould of bringing the data to the application, by moving application code back out into the grid, in a manner similar to, but not the same as SQL Stored Procedures

Chapter 8 Data Grid Patterns

How Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) requirements can be met using the IMDG concept

Chapter 9 Spring Integration

Using the Spring framework to interact with the IMDG, where Javabeans etc. are instantiated by Spring rather than within the Java code itself

Chapter 10 Putting It All Together

Taking a "real world" example application for bookmark storage, management and access, and moving it from a somewhat "kludged" pattern-light model to something a lot more formalised and structured

As per my previous comments, as one might expect, the book is heavy on the Java code, and is likely to be of more use to an enterprise application developer, especially one working with highly-performance transaction/compute-intensive data models, *BUT* the overall architecture, benefits and implementation best practices are clearly established within the book. As an infrastructure architect, I've learnt some important lessons that, although not specifically relevant to the projects on which I'm working right now, are of value now, and almost certainly, in the future.

In conclusion, I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone wishing to explore In-Memory Data Grids, whether they intend to utilise the WebSphere eXtreme Scale platform or not.

Mr Chaves, I thank you :-)

Using WebSphere Portal documentation offline

2010-02-01T20:16:00.001Z

I've been trying to use the WP documentation off-line, in preparation for a client project later this week.

The WebSphere Portal 6.1.5 Information Centre is available offline, from this page: -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html

specifically, via this link ( as a ZIP file ).

This ZIP file then references the "...the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse...".

However, when I Google'd for this, I found: -

"...

This technology has graduated.

The IBM User Interface Help System Built on Eclipse framework can be found running help systems within many IBM products. Additionally, the framework is being used to provide information centers for most IBM products. These information centers are available on-line and frequently they are also made available with the product itself to be installed locally.

..."

here: -

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/iehs

That wasn't a whole lot of help ...

Thankfully, thanks to one of my colleagues ( thanks, Cali ! ) bookmarking this page: -

IBM User Interface Help System Built on Eclipse

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=AW-0M5&S_PKG=0M5〈=en_US&cp=UTF-8

from where one can download the 8 MB plugin.

In conclusion, I'm hoping that a combination of this: -

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc_v615/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc_v615.zip

and this: -

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

and this: -

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=AW-0M5&S_PKG=0M5〈=en_US&cp=UTF-8

will do the job.

More to follow ...

WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer 6.1.5 - The Icon ...

2010-02-01T13:38:00.000Z

Whilst setting up my "new" Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 portlet development machine, I wanted to create a few desktop launchers for those occasional moments when I'm running X11.

For one of my launchers, for WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer, I was looking for, and failing to find, the appropriate "old skool" Bowstreet Portlet Factory Designer icon.

Thanks to my work colleague, and all round good bloke ( who does a LOT of good work for charity ), Mr Mike "@spradders" Spradbery, I found the icon path to be as follows: -

/opt/IBM/WebSphere/PortletFactory/Designer/eclipse/plugins/com.bowstreet.designer_6.1.5/Builder.gif

so my launcher looks as follows: -

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/root/startWPF.sh
Name[en_US]=WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
Icon=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/PortletFactory/Designer/eclipse/plugins/com.bowstreet.designer_6.1.5/Builder.gif

IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes 8.5.1 on Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0: A scalability analysis

2010-01-29T20:15:00.002Z

As posted by Ed, here's the document that many of our customers have been waiting for: -

This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from your IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client on the new Citrix XenApp 5.0 server. In particular, we show that, by tuning your environment so that you get the most from your applications, you can realize significant improvements in running the Notes client on XenApp. This is true for both the standard and the basic configurations of Lotus Notes.

Moreover, the new support for Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 by Notes 8.5.1 together with memory improvements means we can scale to even higher numbers than before at a much reduced cost. Also presented are the testing environment, tuning parameters, and the workflows that were executed to gather the scalability data on Notes 8.5.1.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/d-ls-notes851xenapp/

Site analytic support in IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.5

2010-01-29T18:01:00.002Z

In IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.5, site analytic support has been enhanced to include integration with Coremetrics, Omniture, and Webtrends Web analytic solutions. This is part of IBM's User Experience Optimization Initiative (UEOI) that enables WebSphere Portal customers to easily capture and measure user activity, so that portals can be better designed and targeted.

In this white paper, we discuss the importance and types of analytics and explain how to integrate WebSphere Portal into your favorite UEOI Web analytic software. We also discuss the exciting future of Web analytic integration into WebSphere Portal, including autonomic enhancements.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc/dw-w-siteanalytics/index.html

Setting up single sign-on between IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 and Computer Associates' SiteMinder

2010-01-29T14:46:00.002Z

One of my colleagues has just shared details of this recently published Wiki item. It's pertinent to me for a project that I'm working on at present, so it's a quite timely posting: -

Setting up single sign-on between IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 and Computer Associates' SiteMinder

This article describes the best practices for setting up single sign-on (SSO) between IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 and Computer Associates' SiteMinder. We include detailed steps along with troubleshooting tips.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Setting_up_single_sign-on_between_IBM_Lotus_Connections_2.5_and_Computer_Associates_SiteMinder

Moving and renaming VMware images - WiP

2010-01-26T20:11:00.002Z

This is the first of (potentially) many drafts, as I try and get a handle on the process of moving/renaming VMware images.

This is partly due to the fact that VMware Fusion ( Mac ) and VMware Workstation (Lin/Win) automatically create image names based upon the OS. As an example, a Red Hat Linux v4 image is created as a series of files named Red Hat Linux.* e.g. Red Hat Linux.vmx, Red Hat Linux.vmxf etc.

Now I don't claim to be totally conversant with the VMware file naming structure, but I'm sure that there are masses of documents on t'internet describing it more clearly.

Using this document as a source: -

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_learning_files_in_a_vm.html

the files that I've been manipulating are: -

.VMX

This is the primary configuration file, which stores settings chosen in the New Virtual Machine Wizard or virtual machine settings editor. If you created the virtual machine under an earlier version of VMware Workstation on a Linux host, this file may have a .cfg extension

.VMXF

This is a supplemental configuration file for virtual machines that are in a team. Note that the .vmxf file remains if a virtual machine is removed from the team.

.VMDK

This is a virtual disk file, which stores the contents of the virtual machine's hard disk drive.

A virtual disk is made up of one or more .vmdk files. If you have specified that the virtual disk should be split into 2GB chunks, the number of .vmdk files depends on the size of the virtual disk. As data is added to a virtual disk, the .vmdk files grow in size, to a maximum of 2GB each. (If you specify that all space should be allocated when you create the disk, these files start at the maximum size and do not grow.) Almost all of a .vmdk file's content is the virtual machine's data, with a small portion allotted to virtual machine overhead.

If the virtual machine is connected directly to a physical disk, rather than to a virtual disk, the .vmdk file stores information about the partitions the virtual machine is allowed to access.

Earlier VMware products used the extension .dsk for virtual disk files.

So, without further ado, here's my process ... oh, hang on, forgot to add the CAVEAT.

This process is DESTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTIVE - if it goes wrong, you will LOSE your precious virtual machine. If in doubt, do NOT do it WITHOUT a good proven backup. Otherwise, do NOT DO IT <PERIOD>

In this example, we have a subdirectory called WPX615 within which we have a bunch of files, all named WPX615...

WPX615-s001.vmdk
WPX615-s002.vmdk
WPX615-s003.vmdk
WPX615-s004.vmdk
WPX615-s005.vmdk
WPX615-s006.vmdk
WPX615-s007.vmdk
WPX615-s008.vmdk
WPX615-s009.vmdk
WPX615-s010.vmdk
WPX615-s011.vmdk
WPX615.nvram
WPX615.vmdk
WPX615.vmem
WPX615.vmsd
WPX615.vmss
WPX615.vmx
WPX615.vmxf

At the end of the process, the subdirectory will be renamed Portal61 and each file will be Portal61...

It's probably a stupid thing to say, but make sure that the VM is not running; ideally, shut down Fusion / Workstation before proceeding
Rename the subdirectory
Remove the log files - they play no part in the actual operation of the VM, but may be worth moving/backing up for future reference
Remove the appListCache directory - this MAY be a VMware Fusion feature which I don't use, so don't mind losing
Rename all of the files
Replace references to WPX615 in the .VMX, .VMXF and .VMDK files

So here's the script: -

#!/bin/bash

# Test for sufficient parameters

if [ $# -eq 0 ]

then

echo "Usage: renameVM.sh OldVM NewVM"

exit 65

# Parameter 1 is the old directory/file name

echo "Moving from " $1

# Parameter 2 is the new directory/file name

echo "Moving to " $2

# Move the directory

mv $1 $2

# Change to the new directory

cd $2

# Remove the appListCache directory ( VMware Fusion only ? )

rm -Rf appListCache

# Remove the log files

rm -Rf *.log

# Move the VMware files from the old name to the new name

ls *.* | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/'$1'/'$2'/2' | /bin/sh

# Replace references to the old filenames

sed -i '' 's/'$1'/'$2'/g' $2.vmx

sed -i '' 's/'$1'/'$2'/g' $2.vmxf

sed -i '' 's/'$1'/'$2'/g' $2.vmdk

# Finished

echo "All done, please try your new VM"

So far, so good.

This has worked for me today with a single VM, switching back and forth from one name to another.

Will update as I progress ...

PS I learnt a lot about awk, sed and bash in this process, and also found that the command fgrep -I <pattern> filename was of great use in testing the search/replace on the VMX files etc.

PS Some very useful hints from here

Enabling Business Space to work with IBM InfoSphere MashupHub

2010-01-26T10:08:00.001Z

One of my colleagues alerted me to this recently published document: -

Question

How can I enable Business Space to work with IBM InfoSphere MashupHub so that, depending on their roles, Business Space users can add hub widgets to the Business Space widget palette, publish templates and pages to the hub, create a space based on a hub template, and import hub pages into spaces that they own?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21414646

The document goes on to describe how integration may be achieved with WebSphere Portal 6.1.5, via the command: -

Configengine.sh set-mashuphub-url -DhubUrl=huburl -DWasPassword=was_password -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_password

as per the Information Centre: -

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc_v615/admin/mash_cfg_hub_fctns.html

In the words of another of my colleagues, SWEET !

Social Software .... Development

2010-01-24T10:52:00.002Z

An interesting mix of development and collaboration, via Mainsoft, whose technology has been described ( by me amongst others ) as the glue between enterprise software.

Integration between the Rational Team Concert Web interface and Lotus Connections social software is delivered via a Mainsoft technology preview.

Tap into your social network

Integrating Lotus Connections social software into the Rational Team Concert Web interface provides many new collaboration capabilities that allow you to identify, connect with, and exchange ideas with a wide community of IT and business stakeholders, partners, and end users. You can:

Learn more about your colleagues, by accessing their complete social profile
Find out what's happening in your community, blogs, wikis, and activities
Search for technical and business contacts based on their experience, skills, or key relationships
Publish work items as Lotus Connections activities or microblog status updates
Microblog ideas and status updates from the dashboard
And more ...

https://jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert/features/social

Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 is available on Fix Central;

2010-01-23T14:15:00.002Z

Notes and Domino 8.5.1 updates for Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX, i5/OS, Solaris, zLinux, Mac etc. etc. etc.

Download options for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg24025721&ca=blog

I installed FP1 onto Notes 8.5.1 on my Mac this morning, so far, so good.

WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Beta Three Now Available

2010-01-22T18:32:00.001Z

Hmmm, managed to miss this announcement during the Lotusphere 2010 excitement this week. Thanks to a serendipitous Google search for something completely unrelated ( WebSphere Portlet Factory and Rational Team Concert together ), thanks to Strongback for posting this: -

Beta 3 of WebSphere Portal 7 Now Available

http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com/2010/01/beta-3-of-websphere-portal-7-now.html

which references: -

WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Beta Three Now Available

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=315917

which further references: -

IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Open Beta

https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/portalopenbeta/

WebSphere Portal Beta Readme

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Portal.Next_Beta_Readme.htm

I'm not actually sure whether this will be Version 7 or, perhaps, Version 6.X, but it's not as important as the fact that the code is out there NOW. They promise to have VMware images of Beta 3 by the end of the month, and there's also Hypervisor and Amazon EC2 options available as well. One's cup overfloweth :-)

Nice one, Kenny

Open Mic: Planning for deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 - 27 January 2010

2010-01-21T20:00:00.001Z

IBM Support is hosting an Open Mic conference call with panelists from Development and Support to discuss planning for the deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. eastern standard time (EST) (3:00 p.m. GMT). The focus of this Open Mic call is to discuss deployment considerations, install planning, and upgrade considerations for Sametime 8.5.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=477&uid=swg21418099

Support Content Highlights for IBM WebSphere Portal/ Web Content Management (January 2010)

2010-01-21T19:58:00.001Z

Now available online: -

This document contains links to new information and current key technical support documents for IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) that are frequently requested or identified by IBM as valuable. This is key information to help you derive the most value from software licenses, find answers to common questions, and work through current issues that might affect your environment.

Contents:

• Announcements

• Recent wiki and developerWorks articles

• Recent favorites

• Continual favorites

• Electronic support resources

• IBM Support Portal resources and survey

• Education information

• Subscription information

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nflsblog.nsf/dx/such-wpswcm-jan10

Losing, and then finding, File Type Associations with Lotus Symphony on Mac OSX

2010-01-21T13:16:00.004Z

Somehow, during a recent clean-up session with Onyx, I managed to lose the associations between files such as .DOC, .XLS, .ODS etc. and Lotus Symphony 1.3, which is embedded within Lotus Notes 8.5.1.

Rather than needing to reinstall the application, or ( quelle horeure ) install ANOTHER productivity tool, I found this Notes preference: -

Choose Lotus Notes -> Preferences
Navigate to IBM Lotus Symphony
Choose File Type Associations
Choose the appropriate file types e.g. All, Open Document Format, Microsoft Office 2007 etc.

Once done, I was able to double-click on a file from within Finder, and have it open up in Symphony within the Notes client as I'd expect.

If it helps, I'm using Lotus Notes 8.5.1 FP1 on Mac OSX 10.6.2.

Deja Vu - I've been down this road before ...

2010-01-18T12:50:00.001Z

Took me a few minutes, and a Google search, to realise why I was seeing a blank page on my freshly squeezed installation of Lotus Quickr Services for Lotus Domino 8.2.

Despite stopping/starting Quickr, and updating to Fix Pack 8, I was still seeing the same symptom. When I Google'd around, I found this Technote: -

Blank page or JavaScript error "Object expected" after install or upgrade of Lotus Quickr 8.2 if you do not enable Domino Servlet Manager

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21389017

which directs one to enable the Domino Servlet Manager via the Domino Administrator: -

1. From IBM Lotus Notes® or the Domino Administrator, open the Domino Directory (names.nsf) on the server.
2. Open the Server document.
3. Click Internet Protocols > Domino Web Engine.
4. Below Java Servlets, select Domino Servlet Manager in the Java servlet support field.
5. Save and close the document.

After making these changes, you need to restart the HTTP task (enter restart task http on the server console) for them to take effect.

The ultimate irony ?

I checked back in my blog postings from last year, and found this: -

Problems with Lotus Quickr Services for Lotus Domino 8.5 on upgrade/installation - Blank page or JavaScript error "Object expected" ...

http://www.davehay.f2s.com/2009/06/problems-with-lotus-quickr-services-for.html

Can you say "Doh" ?

Installing WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5 on Windows ...

2010-01-18T11:29:00.001Z

Whilst working to help out a colleague who was struggling with the download of the relevant images, I was able to successfully download and install WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5 onto Windows ( I'm using XP as a dev. environment, running under VMware Fusion 3 on my Mac ).

I used the following script to unpack the images: -

unzip CZ8G7ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-Setup
unzip CZ8H2ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-1
unzip CZ8H8ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-2
unzip CZ8I4ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-3
unzip CZ8I5ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-4
unzip CZ8I6ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-5
unzip CZ8I7ML.zip -d c:\temp\W-5A

using the ubiquitous unzip.exe tool ( part of PKZip iirc ) to expand the ZIP files.

Hope this helps ...

Configuring Microsoft Windows single sign-on for IBM Lotus Connections

2010-01-15T16:11:00.001Z

Windows SSO support is a new feature in Lotus Connections 2.5, enabling users who are already logged on to a Windows desktop to log on to Lotus Connections automatically, without needing to re-authenticate.

The SSO is achieved by means of Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO), which is a GSSAPI "pseudo mechanism" used to negotiate one of a number of possible real mechanisms. The negotiable sub-mechanisms include Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) and Kerberos, both of which are supported by Microsoft Active Directory.

Windows SSO can be implemented in a variety of ways, including via WebSphere® Application Server SPNEGO Trust Association Interceptor (TAI), Tivoli® Access Manager, or other third-party access managers.

In Lotus Connections 2.5, the Windows SSO support is built on WebSphere Application Server SPNEGO TAI. Figure 1 illustrates how the SPNEGO authentication is performed with WebSphere SPNEGO TAI (excerpted from the developerWorks article titled, "Administering the SPNEGO TAI: Tips on using Kerberos service principal names").

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Configuring_Microsoft_Windows_single_sign-on_for_IBM_Lotus_Connections

Using Lotus Sametime Connect client in a load-balanced Sametime server environment

2010-01-12T19:43:00.001Z

Following a client's recent experiences, I'm pleased to report that it appears to be possible to have a Sametime Connect client ( actually the Sametime 8.0.2 client within the Notes 8.5.1 client ) authenticate with a clustered Domino server via a load balancer.

Whilst the Sametime client itself does not allow the load balancer's hostname to be entered ( it assumes that the hostname is actually that of a Domino server ), there is a useful circumvention, documented in SPR PMIA6A9MMW: -

SPR# PMIA6A9MMW - When a notes client connects to a Domino server part of the protocol exchange includes the notes client telling the server what it thinks the server's name is. If the names do not match, the connection is terminated. This mechanism is part of the code which supports partitioned servers running on the same IP address.

However, because of this algorithm, we cannot use network sprayers in front of Domino servers. When a Notes client uses a Network Sprayer address as a Domino server address, the network sprayer may make the final connection to any of the Domino servers behind it. If the name supplied by the client is not the Domino server name of the selected server, the connection will be broken.

This fix provides a mechanism to skip the server name checking to allow this configuration to work.

NOTE: This mechanism is suitable ONLY if the database being accessed is available on all the Domino servers being sprayed to! This is only true for very constrained configurations. For example - Sametime Servers that want to use SSO, or clusters in which all accessed databases have replicas on all servers! There are many configurations in which this feature will not work.

To enable this feature, on each of the Domino servers behind the network sprayer add NETWORK_SPRAYER_ADDRESS=sprayer to notes.ini. Where "sprayer" is * * to match any name, or the DNS or HOST file name of the sprayer itself, or a comma separated list of names.

This is further documented in this Technote.

WebSphere Portal NOW - BP Enablement @ IBM Hursley Park on February 17/18

2010-01-11T20:03:00.001Z

For more details, and registration, please click here: -

https://www-304.ibm.com/isv/spc/events/description.jsp?event=BA9F4D92AA0D38948625769400543CBF

Now this is a sight that you don't see every day ...

2010-01-08T20:07:00.001Z

Want to run Windows applications natively on the Mac, without using VMware Fusion, BootCamp etc. ?

Then check out WineBottler - with thanks to Mr Bill Buchan for sharing ( also known as u235 )

IBM Support Portal - Wow, what a difference ...

2010-01-08T19:37:00.001Z

http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal