Webcast for application development and support

This webinar is specifically geared towards application development on IBM Notes and Domino. We’ll show you how to go about your tasks more accurately and faster using an easier approach to investigating and working with your data, and by going beyond the way you usually work with views, folders, action bars, agents, etc.

You’ll come away with everything you’ll need to fast-track your application development processes.

Presentation overview

The EZ Suite Dev comprises many tools that work together to streamline your development of IBM Notes and Domino, web and XPages applications. In this presentation, we’ll demonstrate through various practical examples why these tools are indispensable in helping you accelerate development and improve support of existing applications.

Learn advanced document and design management techniques* using scanEZ

• Manipulate designs and deploy a new look and feel with actionBarEZ
  • Analyze View and Folder index sizes and settings using viewEZ
  • Analyze and mass-edit column properties across an application with viewEZ
  • And more…

Ytria’s consoleEZ lends you an ear to the ground (with selective hearing too!) when it comes to all your servers

It’s the newest addition to the EZ Suite of software tools for IBM Notes and Domino administrators and developers, and it will change your relationship with your servers. With access to multiple consoles in one place, you can monitor what’s going on with a global dashboard, various filters and log analyzers, and even send out commands.

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Agenda & Introduction (00:00)

Consoles (02:07)

• Opening and arranging consoles (04:00)
• Filters (06:35)
• Server Interaction (09:28)
• Dashboard (11:15)
• Server tasks (14:00)
• Statistics (14:35)

Log Analyzer (16:00)

• Single Log (17:09)
• Multiple Logs (21:56)
• Pivot Tables (24:00)

Volume Analyzer (27:02)

• Usage Analysis (27:46)
• Replication Analysis (32:35)
• Passthru connections (35.55)

A replicationEZ masterclass webcast

Managing replication across several IBM Domino servers can be overwhelming and may result in limiting oneself to reactive measures. As administrators, we need to establish a pro-active protocol to ensure that everything is setup correctly in order to prevent as many issues as possible. Managing replication is critical to administering any domino environment, where erroneous replication results in significant cost for the organization and confusion for the user.

In this presentation, we will focus on practical solutions using the latest features of replicationEZ and other Ytria tools for scenarios encountered at customer sites. Through these, you’ll learn how to discover issues, understand why they occurred, resolve ensuing problems, and prevent future ones from arising:

• Ensure your replicas are in sync and immediately find critical inconsistencies.
• Differentiate between different classes of inconsistencies and learn what to do about them.
• Find out what the actual differences are between your replicas.
• Understand why these problems happened in the first place and resolve them.
• Track documents to understand where they came from and see your replication setup working (or not!) from your documents’ reference point.
• Get a unique overview of the nature of replication for all replicas of a given database and learn to quickly find where it may have gone wrong.
• Trace problems back to a faulty setup, understand where it went wrong, and correct it.
  Get a deep overview of connection documents to understand what will happen to your databases when replication occurs.
• Learn to use the graphical charts generated from actual replication history entries.
• And more!

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Analyzing your environment (04:13)

Main Interface: see what is replicating and where? (04:30)

• Grouping by the number of replicas found (06:30)
• Discovering duplicate replicas (07:10)
• Adding properties in the grid (07:34)

Replication History: when and how did replication take place? (08:34)

• Populate grid with replication history of a given application and all its replicas (09:20)
• Replication History Chart for a single database (10:20)
• Automation: exporting the replication history for multiple databases (13:20)

Ensuring replicas are consistent(14:25)

Note Counters: How many notes in each replica? (15:07)

• Inconsistent Counts: was replication successful? (16:27)
• Example: Service Desk application
• Replicate missing documents via Console Command (19:08)
• Compare replicas’ documents with scanEZ’s Replication Auditor (20:00)
• Find Selective replication formulas (Replication Settings) to solve replication issues (23:20)

Compare ACLs (25:15)

• Finding & resolving an ACL issue (25:15)
• Resolve inconsistency by copying ACLs (27:45)

Find Conflicts (28:33)

• Find a huge heap of conflicts using Conflict Counter (28:55)
• Analyze for explanations of large amount of conflicts (30:01)
• Resolve conflicts in scanEZ (30:30)

Compare Agents (31:10)

• Find incorrect property settings: Run On (31:45)

Note Tracker (32:45)

• Use scanEZ’s Post Replication Auditor to locate ghost documents (33:07)
• Find out who edited the affected database at a specific time (35:25)

Managing replication settings (40:55)

Seeing a Global Picture of Replication & Investigating Affected Databases (41:17)

• Examples of Discover Replicas Charts (45:50)

Connection Documents (48:30)

• Use Connection Document Analyzer to see how a database replicates (48:30)

Cluster Analyzer (50:30)

• Create replicas (51:37)

Note: Use F11 to toggle between displaying horizontal and vertical column titles in the grid.

Selected Databases Panel (53:10)

• Enable PIRC on a database’s replicas to prevent Ghost Documents (55:28)
• Selective Replication Formulas (56:00)

An agentEZ and signEZ best practices webcast

• Take control of your agents across your entire server.
• Understand and optimize agent schedules.
• Discover and solve agent problems.
• Best practices for agent management.
• Find and correct all sorts of signature issues.
• Learn about the best ways of managing signer IDs in your development and administration teams.
• Bring order to design element signature chaos in legacy environments.
  Learn about the benefits of doing batch jobs in signEZ.

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Agenda (1:12)

• Introduction to agentEZ (7:43)
• Agent Selection (7:43)
• Loading Process (8:17)
• What does the grid mean? (9:29)
• How to change stuff (11:49)

Basic features of agentEZ through examples (13:00)

• Run on settings (13:12)
• Two step saving process (15:08)
• Working with agent schedules (18:42)

Troubleshooting agent problems(25:13)

• Last run Start Date and history (25:45)
• Run completion & execution time (29:00)
• Agent logs & error codes (32:20)
• Agent signatures (34:45)

Introduction to signEZ (37:40)

• signEZ interface (38:00)
• sign-Audit (40:30)
• NAB Presence checker (41:00)

Features of signEZ through examples

• Re-authenticating a session (42:00)
• Re-signing with correct signatures ( 42:23)
• Sharing signer IDs (44:45)
• Batch signing with signEZ (52:41)

Modifying and saving agents using signEZ with agentEZ (01:36:00)

An aclEZ best practices webcast

Learn about aclEZ best practices in discovering, analyzing and resolving issues with your ACLs and ACL groups. This includes:

• ACL management on steroids (mass-editing and deployment of ACLs)
• How to quickly overview server-wide ACL security and find & resolve problems on the spot
• How to clean up your ACLs to ensure a well-organized and easy to oversee environment
• How to work with roles on a mass scale
• Deep diving in ACL groups to get an understanding of who can access what on your server
• Dissecting your NAB group structure to understand any key user and group policies in place
• Cleaning up the NAB groups to ensure their members are relevant and up to date within your organization
• Managing global ACL settings like Administration server, enforcement of consistent ACLs, etc…

Outline of presentation

ACL Management

• Main Grid (00:05:02)
• Check & change Default Access (00:08:10)
• Add new ACL entries to multiple databases (00:11:10)
• Example: deploying generic ACLs in Marketing (00:14:20)
• Looking at mail files for inconsistencies (00:15:38)
• Old server & Admin names in mail file ACLs (00:20:15)
• Analyzing entries for patterns and differentiating between different kinds of entries
• Example: changing mailbox owner access (00:23:10)
• Restriction System & Key Depository Database, or how to make some aclEZ features available for certain members of a team (00:27:45)

Working with ACL Groups (Nested Groups)

• Group Expander Button (00:30:40)
• Expanding Nested Groups and understanding the main Grid (00:33:30)

NAB Group Navigator

• Tree layout (00:43:41)
• Example: integrating a NEW Chilean subsidiary (00:47:17)
• Grid layout (00:49:30)
• Red-coloured entries & NAB Presence Checker (00:56:05)
• Assignment of Group Memberships (00:60:48)

Role Management and other features

• Managing roles on the entire server (00:63:00)
• Roles panel
• Example: assigning a new role in all Sales Forecast databases (00:66:45)

Global ACL properties (00:69:00)

• ACL History (00:69:20)
• Administration Server (00:62:29)
• Mail Owner (00:69:46)

Outline of presentation

Outline of presentation

Find out how you can establish a true global picture of replication across your Domino domain with a few clicks. Get answers to questions like:

• How do I know what has been replicated and where?
• So when and how did replication occur?
• Can we compare DB properties and high level info?
• What if I’d like to dig deeper?
• What about security?
• Can I find ALL replicas of one given database?
• What about changing stuff? Replication and other properties?
• How about replication settings? I bet there is no global overview there!
• Can I initiate replication without going to my server console?
• Bonus question: If I want to check if all agents have been replicated for all replicas of my database?

The vast majority of scanEZ owners are only using a small subset of features—we want everyone to get maximum value out of this tool. This Webcast will focus on key features; time constraints mean we can’t cover everything in this presentation (but there will be a scanEZ Master Class Part II).

In this presentation, you will discover new ways to work with documents—the first step in achieving complete mastery over your databases. This includes tricks for:

• content analysis
• performing complex searches
• data extraction and exportation
• working with profiles
• conflict resolution
• comparing and contrasting data
• formula evaluation
• data modification/mass-editing
• and much more!

In addition, you will learn how to use scanEZ for:

• advanced troubleshooting
• replication analysis
• document hierarchy navigation
• deletion stubs and soft deletion management
• and other exciting functions!

And of course we’ll be showing you real world examples of how to use multiple scanEZ features in tandem—an unbeatable strategy for solving tough database issues quickly.

Quick overview of scanEZ interface basics

Find out how you can establish a true global picture of replication across your Domino domain with a few clicks. Get answers to questions like:

• How do I know what has been replicated and where?
• So when and how did replication occur?
• Can we compare DB properties and high level info?
• What if I’d like to dig deeper?
• What about security?
• Can I find ALL replicas of one given database?
• What about changing stuff? Replication and other properties?
• How about replication settings? I bet there is no global overview there!
• Can I initiate replication without going to my server console?
• Bonus question: If I want to check if all agents have been replicated for all replicas of my database?