NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application
The Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application is a repository for storing Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports that contain detail information about the status of all attempts to run Smart Upgrade on IBM® Lotus® Notes® clients in a domain. Use it to determine whether the Notes clients are upgrading successfully when using Smart Upgrade, or to determine which users are experiencing problems. If there are instances where Smart Upgrade fails, use the information in the report to assist in determining the problem without having to visit the user's desktop. You can also use the reports to determine whether there is a repeating problem on multiple clients which could be related to the configuration of the Smart Upgrade application containing the kit information.

During the server setup of a domain's first server, IBM® Lotus® Domino® creates a mail-in application named Lotus Notes/Domino Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application (LNDSUTR.NSF) using the template LNDSUTR.NTF. Domino also creates the corresponding mail-in document. Notes automatically creates Smart Upgrade Tracking reports each time Smart Upgrade runs on a client in your domain. Reports of successful upgrades are sent to the Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application the first time the Notes client is started after the successful upgrade. Reports of unsuccessful upgrades are sent immediately after the upgrade fails or cancels.

If you prefer, you can manually set up the application by using LNDSUTR.NTF, and you can then create the corresponding mail-in document.

If you are using policies, enable Smart Upgrade Tracking on the desktop policy settings document's Smart Upgrade tab. The Notes client then uses the information that you enter there to mail a Smart Upgrade Tracking Report each time Smart Upgrade is run on Notes clients in your domain.

You can view reported information by Status, that is, sorted according to whether the Smart Upgrade succeeded, failed, or was canceled. You can also view reports by date, by Notes/Domino version, by operating system version, or by user.

Using Smart Upgrade tracking after upgrading

If you upgrade to this Domino release and you have not set up or used Smart Upgrade Tracking in the past, you need to manually create the Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application and the mail-in document. You then need to modify the desktop policy settings document to enable Smart Upgrade Tracking for the users whose upgrades you want to track.

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