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HowTo setup oz dbMon
This page details how to setup oz dbMon in the ideal manner, if you ignore any of the steps you are likely to
encounter issues when you are using the server addin task or application.
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 1. Shutdown the domino server
Shutdown the domino server.
2. Un-zip the dbMon.exe and dbMonext.dll to 'EXE' on your domino server
Un-zip the the dbMon.exe and dbMonext.dll to the 'EXE' folder on your domino server, this folder will contain the nserver.exe file, do not change the names of the files.
3. Update the 'notes.ini' of the domino server
Then locate the notes.ini file and add ' , dbMon' to the line 'ServerTasks=' and create the line 'EXTMGR_ADDINS=dbMonext' or add ', dbMonext' to the end of the existing line
4. Un-zip the dbMon.NSF database to the data folder.
Un-zip the dbMon.NSF database to the data folder on your domino server, the database must be in the data folder ( root ) and not in any sub-folder.
5. Start the domino server
Re-start the domino server.
6. Confirm the servers have access to dbMon.NSF.
As dbMon is a Domino server addin task the servers need to have access to the databases it is going to be updating.
7. Open the dbMon.NSF database.
Open the dbMon.NSF database in the data folder of the domino server.
8. Create a monitoring document.
Create a 'Monitoring Databases' document, the source database is the database whos document deletions will be monitored, the target database ( dbMon.NSF ) is were
the deleted documents will be copied.
Use the 'Enable' button to update the profile document in the Source database, the document must be in 'Read' mode for the button to appear.
9. dbMon Console Commands.
Here are some of the dbMon Console Commands
> tell dbmon help
or
> tell dbmon ?
This will show you the commands that dbMon will respond to.
> tell dbmon personmon
This will start the monitoring of person documents after you have configured the person document monitoring in the dbMon database.
> tell dbmon debug
This will start debuging mode which basically creates a text file called dbmon.txt in the data directory of the server.
> tell dbmon debug
Turns debug off.
> tell dbmon status
This will tell you the current settings of the dbmon addin.
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