Lotus Domino R5 System Administration Part 2: Replication and Mail Routing Basics and Strategies

Audience

This course series is for system administrators who are responsible for Domino server and Notes client. Participants should have completed NETg course 13403 Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 1: Basic Concepts or have equivalent knowledge and have completed the first course in this series.

Objective

• Identify the significance of replication in Domino R5 network administration and select the appropriate replication topology in a given situation.
• Sequence the steps of mail routing in Domino mail system and identify the situations in which different mail routing topologies are used.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Replication

• Identify the definition of replication.
• Identify the scenarios in which it is feasible to set up replication.
• Identify the features of server-to-server replication.
• Sequence the steps involved in the process of server-to-server replication.
• Identify the features of client-to-server replication.
• Sequence the steps involved in the process of client-to-server replication.
• Match the different types of replication topologies with their diagrams.
• Identify the benefits of hub-and-spoke topology.
• Identify the features of peer-to-peer replication topology.
• Identify the appropriate replication topology for a specified scenario.
• Match the replication customization settings with the situations in which they are used.
• Match the replication directions with the situation in which they are used.
• Match the various modes of scheduling replication with the situations in which to use them.

Unit 2: Mail Routing

• Identify the features of the Domino mail system.
• Identify the mail routing procedure for a specified situation.
• Identify the mail clients supported in Domino mail routing.
• Identify the servers in a domain that can be included in Notes Named Network.
• Identify the mail routing procedure between Notes servers located in different domains and Notes Named Networks.
• Identify the procedure in which mail is routed between Domino servers that use SMTP.
• Identify the considerations for planning a mail routing topology in a specified situation.
• Match the type of client to be used for a specified situation.
• Match the mail routing topology with the appropriate internal mail routing scenario.
• Identify the situation in which a specified topology is used.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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