The following tip is provided by Warren Elsmore, Senior Architecture Consultant for BE System, based in the UK. He’s been working with Notes and Domino since release 3 and is a regular conference speaker throughout the world, including Lotusphere. His expertise covers Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime and Quick Administration and especially mobile devices.
Issue Commands to Multiple Servers
Here’s a handy tip for working with the Domino console. Quite often, we end up working with customers with lots of servers. Lots and lots of servers in fact. And of course, every so often it’s necessary to change something on all the servers. Perhaps restart a task – or add a new Notes.ini debug setting. You might think that this would be a long and laborious process – opening a connection to each server one by one to type in a single command. But this isn’t the case!
Did you know that the Domino administrator can issue a command to many servers at once? In fact, this is very simple indeed.
- First up, go to the Server Console section of your Domino Administrator. Type in the command as usual, but don’t click ‘Send’ just yet.
- Now click the drop-down part of the ‘Send’ button to show the menu, and select ‘Select Servers’
- Next you can select a whole number of servers – from any domain that you are connected to. Simply add the servers to the list and once you’re done, click on ‘Send’. Your command will then get sent to each server you selected, all in one go!
- If you’re going to do this often – you can even pre-populate this dialog with your favorite server groups. Click the drop-down part of the ‘Send’ button again, but select ‘Customize’. Now you can add any groups from your local NAB, or public NAB (perhaps LocalDomainServers ?). Now sending a command to every server in your domain is as simple as a few clicks!
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