Announcing the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

Subject: Announcing the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: DCT (formerly Quicktune)

Technical Area: New Features

Platform: Not Applicable

Release: Announcement

Reproducible: Always

This DCT post in the N/D wiki has additional information.

The Domino Configuration Tuner evaluates server settings according to a growing catalog of best practices. All servers in a single domain can be evaluated together. DCT generates reports that explain the issues DCT uncovers, suggest mitigations, and provide references to supporting publications.

DCT is intended to provide customers with easy-to-use self-service configuration analysis so that their installations are more robust and experience better performance. DCT will provide Domino support staff with a base-line assessment when initiating customer engagements. A single Domino server includes thousands of configuration options - DCT provides best practice analysis as well as worst practice disclosure. It is our expectation that DCT will help reduce total cost of ownership by assisting in the identification of existing configuration problems.

This first revision of DCT looks at settings in Server documents, NOTES.INI, and database advanced properties. Configuration settings are flagged when their values are know to cause problems based on prior customer experience. Out-of-range and unexpected values are reported so that undefined behavior can be prevented. Suggested adjustments help administrators achieve known server performance improvements.

DCT is expected to be available outside of the Domino release cycle and available to any customer free of charge. It will work with Domino 7.0 and later. There are no required changes to a customer domain configuration in order to take advantage of DCT evaluation. DCT is delivered as an NTF file. It runs on the Notes client, standard or basic, version 8 and later. DCT.NTF is included with the Domino Administrator client. Simply create DCT.NSF and the rest is self explanatory.

Your feedback is very important to us. Would you implement the recommended configuration changes? Which ones?

The following enhancements do not exist in this first public beta release. Based on customer feedback, we have already added them into DCT for the N/D8.5 GA release.