Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

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Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services

 

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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 and Common Calendar

The Domino-WebSphere Portal Express Integration Wizard can do many parts of this task for you, except for...

• Setting the Lotus Domino server to run the LDAP task, which must be running before you run the wizard

• Configuring automatic detection for an LDAP other than Lotus Domino. The wizard integrates only Lotus Domino LDAP.

The wizard always sets the bind user for authentication.

This task supports the following portlets:

• Lotus Notes View
• Domino Web Access
• Inline QuickPlace
• Common Mail or Common Calendar

An LDAP server supports two important features in the portlets.

• Automatic detection of mail database file for the logged-in user

• The drop-down list of servers (supported by Lotus Domino LDAP)

  When users personalize the portlets...

  • Lotus Notes View
  • Inline QuickPlace
  • Domino Web Access

  ...they 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.

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

If your site is already configured with a non-Lotus Domino LDAP directory, you 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 your 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 you 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 your primary portal directory; then you have the option of using the same server for both purposes.

• Configure WebSphere Portal Express for Domino Directory without realm support
• Configure WebSphere Portal Express for Domino Directory with realm support

Perform the tasks in the checklist in the Information center in Set up Domino Directory.

 

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, you can skip to the task Configuring the WebSphere Portal Express 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 your 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 following procedures 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 your Mail File with the Different Collaborative Portlets

Technote 1157249 Troubleshooting Pickers in Collaborative Portlets

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

 

Checklist of tasks

1. Starting the LDAP service automatically on a Lotus Domino server
2. Configuring the WebSphere Portal Express server to recognize Lotus Domino and the Collaborative Services
3. Specifying the Internet host name of the Lotus Domino server
4. Collaborative Services and user authentication
5. Supporting automatic mail detection with an LDAP directory other than Lotus Domino

 

Parent topic:

Integrating the Lotus Domino servers and portlets

 

Related concepts

Messaging: the Common PIM portlets
Domino-WebSphere Portal Express Integration wizard overview

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