Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services

 

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Overview

This topic provides information for configuring a server in the Lotus Domino domain to support collaborative service portlets.

A server that runs the LDAP service is a requirement to support automatic mail detection in the following portlets:

  1. Lotus Notes View
  2. Domino Web Access
  3. Common Mail / Common Calendar (with Domino as a back-end messaging server)

A Lotus Domino LDAP server is recommended, because it also supports...

...but we can use an LDAP server other than Lotus Domino for automatic mail detection if it better fits the needs of the site.

 

Using an LDAP server with Collaborative Services

An LDAP server supports two important features in the portlets.

When users personalize the portlets...

...the portlets provide a drop-down list of back-end messaging/application servers. If this feature is not enabled, users must manually enter a server name in a field to point a portlet to its back-end Domino server. Support for this feature in these portlets is provided when the LDAP directory for Collaborative Services is a Lotus Domino server with the DIIOP service running.

 

How many LDAP servers do we need?

  • If the site is already configured with a Lotus Domino server running LDAP as its primary directory, we can use the same server to support Collaborative Services.

  • If the site is already configured with a non- Lotus Domino LDAP directory, we can do one of two things:

    • Configure a Lotus Domino server with LDAP to support auto-detection and server/database lists in the Collaborative Services and the Domino and Extended Products Portlets.

    • Use the portal non- Lotus Domino LDAP to support auto-detection only.

  • If the site is not yet configured with an LDAP directory (for example, it is a brand new site), a Lotus Domino Directory (LDAP) server as the portal user directory is a good choice for later extensibility, and we can use it to support Collaborative Services.

    Before configuring a Lotus Domino server with LDAP for Collaborative Services, read and follow the instructions in the following tasks to set up a Lotus Domino Directory as the primary portal directory; then you have the option of using the same server for both purposes. These topics are in the Configuring security section of this Information center:

 

Collaborative Services without LDAP

If you do not want to take advantage of either of the features above, and you do not want to run the LDAP service on any Lotus Domino server, we can skip to the task...

Configuring the WebSphere Portal server to recognize Lotus Domino and the Collaborative Services

...and enter a placeholder host name for the LCC.DominoDirectory.Server. This placeholder host name should not be the default value for this field...

yourServer.yourDomain.com

...and should not be a server currently in the environment. The Lotus Domino -based messaging portlets and the Inline QuickPlace will work, but will not be able to take advantage of the features above.

 

Overview of tasks

Perform all the procedures in the following checklist to enable LDAP and to configure these portlets, except those that state they are specific only to the type of LDAP you are not configuring ( Lotus Domino LDAP or non- Lotus Domino LDAP).

After you complete the following sequence of tasks, if users continue to experience problems with the server drop-down list or auto-detection of mail databases, see the following troubleshooting technotes:

Technote 1157029 Troubleshooting Automatic Detection of the Mail File with the Different Collaborative Portlets

Technote 1157249 Troubleshooting Pickers in Collaborative Portlets

We can also use Search at IBM Support to find technotes by number.

 

Checklist of tasks

  1. Start the LDAP service automatically on a Lotus Domino server
    You configure a IBM Lotus Domino LDAP server to support IBM Lotus Domino and the Lotus Domino portlets by adding a setting to the NOTES.INI file that causes the server to start the LDAP service (server task) each time the server starts.

  2. Configure the WebSphere Portal server to recognize Lotus Domino and the Collaborative Services
    You run the Lotus Domino configuration task on the IBM WebSphere Portal server. Running the task allows the portal to recognize the presence of the server (either a IBM Lotus Domino or non- Lotus Domino server) running the LDAP service, so that Lotus Collaborative Services can use the server to support features in Lotus Domino-based portlets, primarily auto-detection of mail files.

  3. Specify the Internet host name of the Lotus Domino server
    In the Server document of the Lotus Domino Directory (NAMES.NSF) database on the Lotus Domino server, specify fully qualified Internet host name for the Lotus Domino server and Internet security options. These settings are part of the support for the server drop-down list that appears when users of the Lotus Notes View, Inline QuickPlace, Domino Web Access, Common Mail, and Common Calendar portlets edit portlet defaults, and automatic detection of users' mail files for any of these portlets that use a Lotus Domino back-end server for messaging.

  4. Collaborative Services and user authentication
    The Lotus Collaborative Services search an LDAP directory for user information. We can enable the Collaborative Services to get the required information in two different ways: by setting up a bind user for authenticated LDAP, or by enabling anonymous user access to attributes in the directory.

  5. Support automatic mail detection with an LDAP directory other than Lotus Domino
    If the LDAP directory configured for the portal and for Lotus Collaborative Services is not IBM Lotus Domino, and you want the automatic mail detection feature in Lotus Domino messaging portlets, we can modify the CSenvironment.properties file to support the feature.

 

Parent topic:

Integrate the Lotus Domino servers and portlets

 

Related concepts

About automatic detection of mail files
Messaging: the Common PIM portlets