To set up directory assistance in an IBM® Lotus® Domino™ domain, complete these procedures.
1. Create and replicate a directory assistance database.
2. Set up servers to use the directory assistance database.
3. Create a Directory Assistance document for each Domino Directory or Extended Directory Catalog for which you want to provide directory assistance.
4. Create a Directory Assistance document for each remote LDAP directory for which you want to provide directory assistance.
Creating and replicating a directory assistance database
Create a directory assistance database on one server, and then create a replica of the database on each server in the domain that will use it for directory assistance. A server can use one directory assistance database only.
1. From the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator, create the database:
Choose File - Application - New to open the "New Application" dialog box.
Enter the name of the server on which to create the database.
Enter a title for the database -- for example, Directory Assistance. You can enter any title.
Enter a file name for the database -- for example, DA.NSF. You can enter any file name with the extension .NSF.
Click "Show advanced templates."
Click Template Server and select a server that stores the Directory Assistance template (DA50.NTF).
Select the Directory Assistance template (DA50.NTF) from the list of templates.
Keep "Inherit future design changes" selected.
Click OK.
2. Create a replica of the directory assistance database on each server that will use it.
Tip Using the same file name and path for the replicas on each server makes it easy to use the Administration Process to add the file name and path to Server documents.
3. Create Connection documents to schedule replication of the database to all the servers that will use it.
4. Continue to the procedure "Setting up servers to use a directory assistance database."
Setting up servers to use a directory assistance database
After you create a directory assistance database and replicate it to servers, set up the servers to use the database. To set up a server to use a directory assistance database, add the file name of the server's replica of the database to the "Directory assistance database name" field of the server's Server document in the primary IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Directory.
Use the Administration Process to automate adding a directory assistance database file name to multiple Server documents -- the Administration Process creates a "Set Directory Assistance Field" request to add the file name. Or enter the file name of the directory assistance database to Server documents manually.
Using the Administration Process to add the directory assistance database file name to multiple Server documents
To use the Administration Process to add a directory assistance database file name to multiple Server documents:
1. Make sure that you:
Created and replicated the directory assistance database
Have either Author access and the ServerModifier role, or Editor access in the ACL of the Domino Directory to which you will add the file names.
Have set up the Administration Process
2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.
3. Next to "Use Directory on," select the administration server for the Domino Directory.
4. In the left pane, expand Server - All Server Documents.
5. Select the Server documents for all servers that use the same file name for the directory assistance database. A check mark appears next to each document.
6. Choose Actions - Set Directory Assistance Information.
7. Enter the file name that you gave to the directory assistance database on these servers -- for example, DA.NSF. If the directory assistance database is in a subdirectory under the data directory, include the path relative to the data directory -- for example, DIRECTORIES\DA.NSF.
8. Click OK.
9. When you see the dialog box stating "Request has been submitted," click OK again.
10. Use the command "tell adminp process interval" to force processing of the "Set Directory Assistance Field" request, or wait until the Administration Process processes the request when it next processes interval requests.
11. Replicate the modifed Domino Directory to the servers that will use the directory assistance database.
12. Restart the servers so they detect the directory assistance database file names in their Server documents.
13. Continue to one or both of these procedures:
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a Domino directory
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory
Entering the directory assistance database file name to a Server document manually
1. Make sure that you:
Created and replicated the directory assistance database.
Have either Author access and the ServerModifier role, or Editor access in the ACL of the Domino Directory to which you will add the file names.
2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.
3. Next to "Use Directory on," select the server whose Domino Directory you want to modify.
4. In the left pane, choose Server - All Server Document.
5. Select a specific Server document, and then click Edit Server.
6. In the "Directory Assistance database name" field in the "Directory Info" section on the Basics tab, enter the file name that you gave to the replica of the directory assistance database on this server -- for example, DA.NSF. If the directory assistance database is in a subdirectory under the data directory, include the path relative to the data directory -- for example, DIRECTORIES\DA.NSF.
7. Click Save & Close.
8. If the Domino Directory you changed is not the replica of the server whose directory assistance database file name you specified, replicate the updated Domino Directory to the server.
9. Restart the server so it detects the directory assistance database file name now in its Server document.
10. Continue to one or both of these procedures:
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a Domino directory
Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory