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Domino V12 – Password Sync / Lesson´s learned 
By Rainer Brandl | 8/3/22 3:57 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
After some issues to get the new feature of the Password Sync up and running I’ll summarize the pitfalls I went through. The process is documented well on the official HCL Product Documentation but with this summary I’ll document some issues.
Domino Community Image - New Nomad Server install option
By Daniel Nashed | 7/30/22 10:22 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
The Nomad server is a new offering to directly add Nomad support to your Domino server instead of using a SafeLinx server.
Recently I added a SafeLinx container to the Domino community project.
Now I am adding the Nomad Server to the Domino image as a new build options.
Domino Container automation testing
By Daniel Nashed | 7/25/22 12:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Containers are not only a good way to run Domino. It is also the perfect environment for automation testing.
Domino 12 introduced OneTouch Setup to automate deployments, which also lets you create reproducible Domino test server scenarios.
As a starting point I am building an automation test for the Domino image itself.
So in future for every commit on the Git repository I can run automation to ensure the image works.
The test automation can be used in your own environment as well after an image built in your environment.
It can be also be extended for your own application testing.
Customizing Domino Backup mail notifications
By Daniel Nashed | 7/22/22 6:42 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Domino Backup offers to send e-mails depending on the status of your backup.
By default you are getting an e-mail in case of error or warning.
I am rarely getting error messages from my servers.
In this case here I updated my server to a new kernel and ZFS drivers failed to build.
HCL Verse 3.0 is available
By Rainer Brandl | 7/22/22 5:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
HCL released the new version of HCL Verse with some great enhancements:
Create and search for contacts in Verse
Until now the contacts app always switched over to iNotes. This feature currently is in Beta version and is off by default.
Updating Sametime 12 to FP1. Not all customizations are kept
By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/22/22 5:30 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Oliver Busse
Upon suggestion from my friend Erik Schwalb of HCL, I upgraded to FP1 a Sametime12 server where I made some branding customization.
Contrary to what I wrote in my previous post not ALL customizations are kept.
HCL Traveler and error 500
By Martijn de Jong | 7/21/22 1:31 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
HCL Traveler is one of those addons for Domino that just works. If you have a properly configured HTTPS stack, you install it, start it and you’re basically done. From now on, you can connect your mobile devices to your Domino server to read your mail and calendar.
At least, that has always been my experience until very recently. The other day I was sent to a customer to fix their problem with Traveler. They had upgraded their Domino server and Traveler installation from 8.5.3 FP5 to 12.0.1 FP1. Everything worked (Kudos for Domino!) except Traveler. Though on further discussion with the client it became clear that Traveler actually already broke earlier and hadn’t been working for the past 6 years or so.
Adding Transactions to the XPages Jakarta EE Support Project
By Jesse Gallagher | 7/21/22 1:27 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
As my work of going down the list of JEE specs is hitting dwindling returns, I decided to give a shot to implementing the Jakarta Transactions spec.
This one's a little spicy for a couple of reasons, one of which is that it's really a codified implementation of another spec, the X/Open XA standard, which is an old standard for transaction processing. As is often the case, "old" here also means "fiddly", but fortunately it's not too bad for this need.
Another reason is that, unlike with a lot of the specs I've implemented, all of the existing implementations seem a bit too heavyweight for me to adapt. I may look around again later: I could have missed one, and eventually GlassFish's implementation may spin off. In the mean time, I wrote a from-scratch implementation for the XPages JEE project: it doesn't cover everything in the spec, and in particular doesn't support suspend/resume for transactions, but it'll work for normal cases in an NSF.
HCL Nomad Web w/o HCL SafeLinx
By Oliver Busse | 7/21/22 1:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
It's been 3 weeks since I tried Daniel Nashed's implementation to the community container project to install SafeLinx in a container - including Nomad Web. That was pretty easy once you managed the certificate part.
Now with the latest drop 3 of Domino 12.0.2 HCL also released the first beta of Nomad which runs as a Domino add-on - without SafeLinx at all.
Installation couldn't be easier. It's just like you do when you want to add Domino Leap (fka Domino Volt) on your existing Domino server.
Nomad Server 12.0.2 on Linux just works
By Daniel Nashed | 7/20/22 10:32 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
The Nomad Server is a small component, you install on your Domino server.
And it is bundled with the Nomad Web files. So it is a all-in one server add-on solution.
The installation sounds more complicated then it is.
It's really simple to install. And I am thinking about making it an install option for the Domino community container image.
HCL Nomad Web 1.0.5 Beta is available - and it's great!
By Heiko Voigt | 7/20/22 10:31 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
So this is truly a game changer - now easier than ever - your HCL Notes Client in the browser. HCL Nomad Web has been around for a while now but setup has always been a bit cumbersome so many people shied away from it. Now, with Version 1.0.5, things have changed dramatically and HCL Core Dev did a great job with this release.
Why run Domino in a container today
By Daniel Nashed | 7/20/22 2:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
As my of you know, I am a big fan of running Domino and other applications in a container.
This can be a classical Docker/Podman deployment or K8s.
Containers might not be good for everyone. But a lot of software is available in a "Docker image", which can run in multiple environments.
Domino's main deployment model will not change to Docker.
The iPhora Journey - Part I - Reimagining Domino
By Richard Moy | 7/20/22 2:00 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
This is part one of a fourteen-part series describing our long journey in redefining the Domino platform and how to use it to meet the expectations of today's customers -- specifically new customers. Our focus is totally on what new customers are looking for, not what existing Domino customers expect.
Domino containers revisited
By Martijn de Jong | 7/20/22 1:57 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
As I wrote in my last post about the Engage conference, a lot has happened in the Domino container space since I wrote my articles, as Daniel Nashed did some serious refactoring on all scripts, removing an insane amount of old code lines and adding some new functionality. This article will show the changes to the project compared to the time that I wrote the original 6-part series.
How to start Sametime automatically when the OS starts
By Ales Lichtenberg | 7/19/22 3:23 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In the HCL Knowledge Base, there is an article, https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0099516, on how to configure Sametime 12 to start automatically after the operating system starts.
And what is the procedure?
HCL Sametime Premium and HCL Sametime 12.0 FP1 is out
By Ales Lichtenberg | 7/15/22 5:51 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Matteo Bisi
the first FP for Sametime V12.0 is now available and includes the following list of fixes:
Source: https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0099322
Domino 12 Restore point in time
By Daniel Nashed | 7/15/22 1:23 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Domino Backup can restore databases point in time!
For other backup applications this functionality is usually only available with archive transaction log.
But with circular translog or linear translog mode, the most current backup should have all the translogs available to recover point in time as well.
Domino Restore allows you to restore point in time in that case.
Even it is not guaranteed that the translogs are still there, this can be still a good configuration if you have servers without dramatic load.
HCL SafeLinx – Encrypted Communication Between the SafeLinx Client and the SafeLinx Server
By Milan Matejic | 7/14/22 1:34 AM | Infrastructure - SafeLinx | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
One of the first things you should do, is to configure the communication between the HCL SafeLinx Administration client and the HCL SafeLinx Access Manager, so that it takes place in an encrypted and secure manner.
For this, only a few simple steps are needed.
Change spellchecking to hunspell in TinyMCE
By Christoph Stoettner | 7/13/22 1:54 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
The last years I had issues with application servers using large amount of CPU and even hanging application servers running the Tiny Spellchecking service. It ended with disabled spellchecking in the Tiny editors config.js.
Now after updating to the actual editor version TinyMCE 5.10.2 we decided to reenable the spellchecker and the first days it looked like, that the issue was really fixed. Sadly after about a week the first application server started to use 800% CPU just for the server hosting the spelling service.
Adding Concurrency to the XPages Jakarta EE Support Project
By Jesse Gallagher | 7/11/22 12:54 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
For a little while, I've had a task open for me to investigate the Jakarta Concurrency and MP Context Propagation specs, and this weekend I decided to dive into that. While I've shelved the MicroProfile part for now, I was successful in implementing Concurrency, at least for the most part.
Linux shell scripts: Difference between "set" and "env" -- fixed the Domino start script
By Daniel Nashed | 7/11/22 4:28 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
The Domino start script has always been using "set" to list the environment variables, before running the sever.
This information can be important to understand the environment passed to your Domino server at start-up.
It turns out that there had been a change over time, which causes much more information to be listed, then just the environment variables.
Extra “Sametime V12 MongoDB roles” in a highly secured Mongo environment
By Remco Angioni | 7/11/22 4:26 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
When following the standard procedure for installing LDAP, MongoDB and Sametime V12. You may discover that the Sametime database user does not have enough rights. The procedure tells us that the following command for creating an user and roles should be enough: db.createUser({user: "sametimeUser", pwd: "sametime", roles:[{role:"readWrite", db:"chatlogging"},{ role:"readWrite", db:"mobileOffline"},{ role:"readWrite", db:"meeting"},{role:"dbAdmin", db:"meeting"},{role:"userAdminAnyDatabase", db:"admin"}]})
Because there was no warning or error at this point we finished the installtion and started Sametime V12, I discovered that we couldn’t login into Sametime. Even when LDAP works correctly and tells us “BIND SUCCESSFULL” in the Sametime Community log.
Fix some annoyances with Customizer · stoeps
By Christoph Stoettner | 7/6/22 5:06 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Matteo Bisi
I created a git repository with some smaller CSS files to fix some annoyances within HCL Connections.
I started with this to prevent Orient Me to load fonts from external URLs or Elasticsearch Metrics to break the UI on larger screens. These issues are solved after the last updates I got from support, but Blogs and Tailored Experience Wizard can be improved with some simple rules.
HCL Nomad Web - in a container
By Oliver Busse | 7/4/22 6:18 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Daniel Nashed did it again: he simplified a process to get faster results. This time: getting started with HCL Nomad Web and SafeLinx.
HCL Nomad Web needs SafeLinx as Proxy and additional files which are the WAS part of the product which will run in your browser. Installing and especially configuring a SafeLinx server may be cumbersome and at least I failed several times. With SafeLinx now running in a container and using a simple ENV file to configure all the important stuff is a huge step forward.
Restart Orient Me pods after Internal Server Error
By Christoph Stoettner | 7/4/22 4:59 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
After rebooting the Kubernetes server for HCL Connections Componentpack, I sometimes see that Orient Me is not working and just shows:
{"error":{"statusCode":500,"message":"Internal Server Error"}}
I think one of the liveness checks could be improved, but for now the following commands restart just the necessary amount of pods to get Orient Me back running.
The Importance of Reproducers
By Paul Withers | 7/4/22 4:57 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
So you think you’ve found a bug. What next? Create a support ticket, right? Wrong!
First off, let’s point out something critical in that first line - “you think you’ve found a bug”. You may be a consumer for the code you think you’ve found a bug in. But you’re also a committer to other code. How many times has someone raised a problem where the code is actually working correctly? How many times has someone raised a problem but given insufficient evidence to know what’s going on, resulting in the famous “works for me”? And how many times was it PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair)?