Front cover Lotus Domino 6 for Linux Installing RedHat, SuSE, and Domino 6 for Linux Improving the performance of your Domino server Administering Domino and Linux Tommi Tulisalo Jonathan Bedford Billy Boykin Gregory Rick Chadbourne Scott Hodgdon Michael Lee Joe Rinck Andrei Vlad ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization Lotus Domino 6 for Linux November 2002 SG24-6835-00 Take Note! Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in “Notices” on page vii. First Edition (November 2002) This edition applies to Lotus Domino Server Pre-Release 2 for Linux, RedHat Linux operating system 7.2 and SuSE Linux operating sytem 8.0. Comments may be addressed to: IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization Dept. TQH, P009 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, New York 12601- 5400 USA When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a non-exclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2002. All rights reserved. Note to U.S Government Users – Documentation related to restricted rights – Use, duplication or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . vii Trademarks . viii Preface . .ix The team that wrote this redbook. .ix Notice . xii Comments welcome. xii Chapter 1. Installing Linux . 1 1.1 Before you begin . 2 1.1.1 Making the CD-ROM/DVD drive bootable. 2 1.1.2 RAID configuration . 4 1.1.3 Partitions . 4 1.1.4 Time configuration. 5 1.1.5 Video card and monitor . 5 1.1.6 File systems in Linux. 5 1.1.7 Different Linux distributions. 7 1.2 Installing Red Hat 7.2 . 8 1.3 Installing SuSE Linux 8.0 . 40 Chapter 2. Installing Domino 6 for Linux . 83 2.1 Before you begin: Pre-installation tasks . 84 2.2 Domino 6 server install . 90 2.2.1 Installation . 90 2.2.2 Starting the Domino server installation . 91 2.2.3 The CheckOS tool. 103 2.2.4 Setup. 105 2.2.5 Remote setup . 107 2.2.6 Local setup . 124 2.2.7 Starting the Domino server . 125 Chapter 3. Security and administration . 133 3.1 Linux security . 134 3.1.1 Physical security . 134 3.1.2 System security. 134 3.2 Linux administration . 150 3.2.1 Partitions . 151 3.2.2 File systems . 153 3.2.3 Scripts . 154 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2002. All rights reserved. iii 3.2.4 Crontab . 156 3.2.5 Network status . 157 3.2.6 Multiple network cards (Private LAN) . 164 3.2.7 System logs. 167 3.2.8 Remote administration . 170 3.3 Domino security. 174 3.3.1 Domino 6 server document . 174 3.3.2 Database ACLs . 175 3.4 Domino 6 administration . 177 3.4.1 Domino 6 Web Administrator . 177 3.4.2 Domino Java Console . 191 Chapter 4. Performance, scalability, and troubleshooting . 195 4.1 Linux performance and scalability . 196 4.1.1 Linux performance . 196 4.1.2 Linux scalability . 208 4.2 Domino performance and scalability . 226 4.2.1 Domino performance. 226 4.2.2 Domino scalability . 231 4.3 Troubleshooting. 232 4.3.1 Basic network troubleshooting . 232 4.3.2 Domino NSD tool . 233 Chapter 5. Domino in action. 247 5.1 Domino user registration . 248 5.1.1 Domino Administration client. 248 5.1.2 The Web administrator . 261 5.2 Active Directory synchronization . 266 5.2.1 Installing the Lotus ADSync tool . 268 5.2.2 Creating users and groups in Active Directory . 270 5.2.3 Registering users in Domino from Active Directory. 277 5.2.4 Registering users to Active Directory from Domino . 282 5.3 Accessing external data from Domino: DB2 example . 288 5.3.1 Installing DB2 for Linux . 288 5.3.2 Accessing external data from a Domino application . 310 5.3.3 Virtual Fields Activity . 310 5.3.4 Creating the Domino application . 311 5.4 Accessing external data from Domino: MySQL example . 327 5.4.1 Description of the environment . 328 5.4.2 Installing MySQL . 330 5.4.3 Basic tuning. 331 5.4.4 Configure MySQL . 334 5.4.5 Setup and configuration of the Notes/Domino application . 346 iv Lotus Domino 6 for Linux Chapter 6. Domino as a Web server . 365 6.1 Linux Operating System configuration . 366 6.1.1 Basic recommendation . 366 6.2 Domino Web server configuration . 366 6.2.1 Settings on a Domino Web server . 367 6.2.2 Starting, stopping, and refreshing the Domino Web server . 369 6.3 Security on the Web server . 370 6.3.1 Internet certificates . 370 6.3.2 Browsing Domino databases via the Internet . 370 6.3.3 Session authentication . 371 6.3.4 Domino Web realms . ..