5 Key Areas of Lotus Domino Server Health

Overall Health and Responsiveness


VitalSigns independently verifies that Domino servers will respond to Notes client requests– the most important thing that end users care about– because it is a Notes client. It tracks response time and warns you when the server is getting sluggish.VitalSigns automatically watches over key health statistics such as Server.Availability, Mem.Availability and Transaction Logging.


Mail Health


VitalSigns detects Pending and Dead Mail pileups by directly querying the mail.box files to absolutely make sure that the mail is flowing. You can even send test mail messages between servers for delivery metrics.

VitalSigns can also automatically delete dead mail, if desired.

IBM recommends that administrators periodically take the value of (Mail.Mailbox.AccessConflicts / Mail.Mailbox.Accesses) x 100 to determine if an additional mail.box file is needed. Who has time for this? VitalSigns does it automatically!

VitalSigns can produce a graph showing the biggest mail files across your enterprise or on specific servers.


Cluster Health


VitalSigns automatically watches over the right metrics such as Replica.Cluster.SecondsOnQueue and Replica.Cluster.WorkQueueDepth to make sure that your cluster replicators are keeping up with their work load. If they aren’t, and users fail over, key information could be missing and the help desk will get swamped with calls. Be prepared.

VitalSigns also makes sure that there is a replica of each database across cluster members, and can produce a report showing the document count and database sizes.


As the Server.Availiabiliy approaches the Server.AvailablityThreshold, your Domino server is getting closer to failing over Notes clients to another server. VitalSigns detects this and lets you know.


Server Task Health


If the Domino server were a living body, then the server tasks would be the vital organs. A typical Domino server may have dozens of server tasks running at any given moment, such Agent Manager, HTTP, and Traveler, and Router. You need to make sure that they are all OK.


VitalSigns verifies and manages Domino Server Tasks, which means that it can automatically start missing tasks, stop prohibited tasks, detect task hangs, and even restart the server if key tasks are hung.


If your organization is running server tasks for compliance purposes, you can’t take the chance that task might not be running!


Disk Health


Disk problems can bring a Domino server down or cause significant performance problems. VitalSigns automatically watches over available disk space, average queue length, and disk utilization, and warns you before trouble can strike.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

Server Task Tab Now Available on VitalSigns V10.4

One of the VitalSigns customers was having challenges with server tasks on one of their Domino servers, so we have improved the way we communicate Domino Server Task status. Now the information is clearly displayed with its own tab in VitalStatus, with a distinction of what is running and what is being monitored.

Additionally, the VitalSigns client also has improved balloon help when mousing-over the Status column.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

VitalSigns V9.0 Just Released and Adds" Database Health" Functionality

VitalSigns monitors Lotus Domino server health better than any other product on the market. VitalSigns watches Overall Health, Cluster Health, Mail Health, Disk Health, and now with release 9, Database Health too.

When a user opens a critical Notes database only to wait for a view to be refreshed, to find out it hasn’t replicated, or worse– that it is corrupt, requiring a fixup, or a consistency check…bad things happen on the help desk. Avoid this embarrassment!

Database Health inventories your Notes databases across servers to find key properties such as Last Modified date, size, template name, quota, ODS, document count, replication settings, and more.

VitalSigns opens each view and refreshes it, which not only improves performance for end users but detects most database corruption



Click on the link below to see more information about VitalSigns-

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

Lotus Notes Email Monitoring

VitalSigns™releases a new version of its Lotus Notes Monitoring software. This updated version has a number of enhancements which include the following:

• Better, faster, algorithm for counting dead and pending mail when a server is processing messages quickly
• Ability to copy and paste Server Task settings from one Domino server to another for faster configuration (right-click on a server entry in the configuration tab)
• Automatic backup of the VitalSigns data files
• The ability to shut off alerts based on Server.ExpansionFactor (giving nuisance alerts for some sites)
• Faster startup of the monitoring process-- scans all servers prior to performing daily housekeeping
• Alerts can now be configured for Business Hours, Off-Hours, or both.

More About VitalSigns:

VitalSigns is a mail server and messaging infrastructure monitoring tool, optimized for IBM/Domino shops, that constantly checks the status of every server or service your email users depend on. When it detects a problem, it sends an alert to the appropriate person. It also captures performance statistics that can be used to produce reports and graphs.

For more information, visit our web site at:

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm