USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION
You create the Domain Catalog by enabling the Catalog task on the server that will index the IBM® Lotus® Domino® domain.
The portions of the Domain Catalog of interest to the Domain Search administrator are those that indicate which databases and file systems the indexing server will include in the Domain Index, as well as the forms used to search the index. Database designers and managers select a database for indexing by enabling the database property "Include in multi database indexing." (Administrators can configure this setting for multiple databases using the Domino Administrator.) These settings are saved to the Domain Catalog when the Catalog tasks runs. Administrators can also control which databases are included in the Domain Index by customizing the selection formula for a hidden view ($MultiDbIndex) in the Domain Catalog.
Administrators specify which file systems to index by adding a File System document to the Domain Catalog for each file system on a server.
Because the Catalog task creates the Domain Catalog by using pull replication of the database catalogs on individual servers, updating the Domain Catalog is usually not a lengthy process if you have already created a database catalog on every server. What can be time consuming, however, is rebuilding the views in the Domain Catalog after an update by updating the database index.
Domain Catalog views
The Domain Catalog's views provide information about the databases, servers, and users in the Domino domain.
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