INSTALLATION

Guidepost for deploying Domino
Whether you're setting up IBM® Lotus® Domino™ and IBM® Lotus® Notes® for the first time or adding to an established Domino environment, planning is vital. Along with determining your company's needs, you need to plan how to integrate Domino into your existing network. After planning is complete, you can begin to install and set up Domino servers and the Domino Administrator and build the Domino environment. The following list describes, in order, the process to use to deploy Domino.

1. Determine your company's server needs. Decide where to locate each server physically, taking into consideration local and wide-area networks and the function of each server.

2. Develop a hierarchical name scheme that includes organization and organizational unit names.

3. Decide whether you need more than one Domino domain.

4. Understand how server name format affects network name-to-address resolution for servers. Ensure that the DNS records for your company are the correct type for the server names.

5. Determine which server services to enable.

6. Determine which certificate authority -- Domino server-based certification authority, Domino 5 certificate authority, third-party -- to use.

7. Install and set up the first Domino server.

8. Install and set up the Domino Administrator on the administrator's machine.

9. Complete network-related server setup.

10. If the Domino server is offering Internet services, set up Internet site documents. There are some instances where Internet Site documents are required.

11. Specify Administration Preferences.

12. Create additional certifier IDs to support the hierarchical name scheme.

13. Set up recovery information for the certifier IDs.

14. Add the administrator's ID to the recovery information for the certifier IDs and then distribute the certifier IDs, as necessary, to other administrators.

15. Register additional servers.

16. If you did not choose to do so during first server setup, Create a group in the Domino Directory for all administrators, and give this group Manager access to all databases on the first server.

17. Install and set up additional servers.

18. Complete network-related server setup for each additional server.

19. Build the Domino environment.

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