SERVICE PROVIDER

Example of planning a hosted environment
xSP International is an IBM® Lotus® Domino® service provider that plans to host Web applications and offer services and protocols to many hosted organizations. To configure the hosted environment, xSP international plans to set up a Domino domain that includes clustered servers, allowing them to define physical storage locations, other than the default, for their hosted organizations.

xSP International plans to support SSL; therefore, they will use unique IP addresses. They begin by installing two servers in their Domino domain: Server1 and Server2. Although each server will contain data for multiple hosted organizations, the data for each individual hosted organization will reside on only one server. The data for a hosted organization will not be distributed across multiple servers. Identical applications will run on each server. If needed, xSP International can add additional servers to this configuration.

The following figure illustrates this configuration.

Service provider setup example.

xSP International will initially register four hosted organizations in this domain. To set up the first hosted organization, CompanyA, the service provider administrator does the following:

1. Reads the topic "Installing the first server or additional servers for hosted environments" prior to installation. After reading all of the information in the chapters listed in Step 2, the service provider completes the "Installing the first server or additional server for hosted environments" procedure.

2. Reads the information in the chapter "Deploying Domino" and then reads the chapter "Installing and Setting Up Domino Servers". After installing the initial xSP server, the service provider completes as many procedures from these chapters as necessary.

3. Determines that a billing strategy based on actual usage suits the requirements of CompanyA and xSP International.

4. Enables activity logging on all servers in the domain.

5. Uses the activity logging API to write a custom application to sort data by hosted organization so that xSP International can bill each hosted organization according to actual usage.

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