ADMINISTRATION TOOLS
A second option involves using a dedicated registration server as the administration server for the Domino Directory. You limit this server's responsibility to the processing of Domino Directory changes. You can then use other servers, such as database hubs, for processing ACL changes to other databases. To do so, specify the database hub as the administration server for those databases. You can divide the responsibility for database ACL changes among several administration servers; but, you must make sure that when there are multiple replicas of a database in the domain, you assign an administration server for only one replica.
A third option involves using multiple servers to maintain the Domino Directory. If your domain is geographically dispersed, having a single administration server for the Domino Directory means all administration requests for Domino Directory changes have to replicate to this one server and the resultant changes have to replicate back. If your company is organized hierarchically, that is, it is composed of multiple organizations and organizational units, extended administration servers can be assigned to maintain the directory documents associated with people, groups, and servers whose names have that organization or organizational unit component.
Using a server that contains mail and other databases as the administration server for the Domino Directory is possible, but is not recommended for performance reasons.
Always run the most recent version of Domino on the administration server of the Domino Directory and the extended administration servers, so that you can use all of the newest Administration Process features.
Note If you use an LDAP client to administer the Domino Directory, the Administration Process is not aware of these changes and does not extend the changes to other databases. For example, if you delete a Person document, you must manually remove references to that person's name in other places that it occurs because the Administration Process does not do this for you.
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