Specifications

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When information is written to console log, it is written also in the console mirror files. When console.log
reaches a limit, information is written in the beginning of the file. At this stage Domino closes the old mirror
file, and creates a new one.
The maximum number of console mirror files is 999. The names of the files are console1.log, console2.log,
... console999.log.
You may find additional information on Console Log Mirroring here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin85.doc/
H_USING_CONSOLE_LOG_MONITORING_STEPS.html
Admin Early Authentication
One of the new capabilities in Lotus Notes 8.5 standard client to improve performance was a change in
Authentication. Now starting from Version 8.5 the user is asked to authenticate, and only then Lotus Notes
workbench appears. This authentication method can change user experience and might appear to improves
performance of the client.
Lotus Notes default behavior is with enabled early authentication. There is a notes.ini parameter, that you
may use to specify to use the old authentication method.
ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION with Lotus Notes Standard client Startup process in Windows
platform
ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION Lotus Notes standard client process starting
order
1 (default) Notes.exe ==> NLNotes.Exe ==> Notes2.Exe
0 Notes.Exe ==> Notes2.Exe ==> NLNotes.Exe
Process explanation:
Notes.exe : Responsible for initialization of Notes process and service and will exit after dependent services
initialization complete.
nlnotes.exe: Lotus Notes client process and it will launch user password prompt during initialization process.
notes2.exe: Lotus Notes standard client Java process implementation.
Do not change this parameter to 0, unless suggested by IBM Support. Some roaming features in Lotus
Notes 8.5 may not work if you change the default value.
Admin ID Vault
ID Vault is a stand alone database, that holds protected versions of users ID files.
Users are assigned to a particular ID VAULT via Security Settings of the Policy. (Organizational or Explicit).
ID Vault is a new function introduced in Domino V8.5.
The benefits of using ID vault.
• Much easier and still secure process of resetting user passwords
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Support of other applications to reset ID password in a Vault (API to perform password resets)
• Easy backup and recovery of users ID files
• Automatic synchronization between several ID copies
• No user interaction during rename process
• No user interaction during ID key rollover
ID recovery introduced in 5.x is still supported, but customers are advised to move to ID Vault as it saves
time on maintenance after a move to Lotus Notes V8.5.