Domino Clustering Final

Understanding IBM Lotus Domino server clustering

Summary: This white paper explains how to set up, manage, and monitor an IBM® Lotus® Domino® server cluster. Learn what clustering is, how it works, its benefits and requirements, and how to configure the Internet Cluster Manager (ICM). Also included is information about error messages and other problems that may arise when using a cluster.

Contents

1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 2 2 What is a Lotus Domino cluster?................................................................................ 2 2.1 Benefits of a Domino cluster .................................................................................... 3 2.2 Server requirements .................................................................................................. 3 3 Setting up a cluster ....................................................................................................... 4 3.1 Using AdminP........................................................................................................... 4 3.2 Adding clusters immediately .................................................................................... 4 3.3 Creating a cluster ...................................................................................................... 5 4 Setting up a private LAN for a cluster...................................................................... 10 4.1 Ensuring Lotus Domino is using the private LAN ................................................. 12 4.2 Ensuring that cluster replication is using the private LAN..................................... 12 4.3 Verifying the cluster was created correctly ............................................................ 13 5 Cluster replication ....................................................................................................... 14 5.1 Scheduled...