DOMINO SERVER INSTALLATION


Domino server registration
Before you install and set up additional servers, you must register them. In effect, registering a server adds the server to the system. The server registration process creates a Server document for the server in the IBM® Lotus® Domino® Directory and creates a server ID. After registering and installing a server, you use the server setup program to obtain a copy of the Domino Directory for the new server and to set up the server to run particular services and tasks -- for example, the HTTP service, the Mail Router, and so on.

The server registration user interface automatically removes leading spaces and trailing spaces from passwords. Passwords cannot begin or end with a space. This also applies to certifier registration and user registration.

Before you register servers, plan and understand your company's hierarchical name scheme. The name scheme defines which certifier ID to use when you register each new server. In addition, make sure that you have access to each certifier ID, know its password, and have created ID recovery information for it.

If you have decided to use the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server-based certification authority (CA), you can register servers without access to the certifier ID file and its password.

The registration server, which is the server that initially stores changes to documents in the Domino Directory until the Domino Directory replicates with other servers, must be up and running on the network. To register servers from your workstation, you must have access to the registration server and have at least Author access with the Server Creator and Group Modifier roles in the ACL of the Domino Directory.

When you register a server, Domino does the following:


If you have a Domino server-based CA for issuing Internet certificates, you can choose to configure the new server to support SSL connections by providing a server key ring password and the server's host name. Then, Domino does the following:
Note You must use the Domino Administrator if you want to use this server registration process to configure a new server for SSL.

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