Just updating our environment to Lotus Domino and Traveler 8.5.2.

The only item catching my eye so far is the altered directory for traveler problem reports. In the past they were located in a folder named traveler\logs\tprs in the Domino data directory. This has now changed and the files can be found in the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT\traveler\logs\tprs directory.

This is important for organisations that have employed some kind of process to get the problem reports picked up and processed automatically from this directory.

Some details on TPRS can be found here.

WASServiceCMD.exe – Nice command line tool to register Websphere servers as a Windows service

Adam Brown – Starting up Lotus Connections automatically

Thanks for sharing!

While the Lotus Connections 2.5 installation guide is quite comprehensive there are a couple of flaws a non full fleshed Websphere application server administrator (like me) won’t spot immediately, hence falling into the trap.

I was banging my head the past few weeks, not being able to determine why on earth I wasn’t able to set-up a network deployment of Lotus Connections. The error message was pretty trivial and documented in the Lotus Connections wiki.

CLFRP0258E: The installation of feature {0} failed while creating WebSphere® Application Server Variables.

Hunting through the detailed error messages in the log though didn’t make me any wiser. Until I got the tip (thanks Justin) that the application server profile has to be unmanaged prior to the installation of Lotus Connections as it will be federated as part of the installation.

This is clearly documented on page 36 of the installation guide (“The node must be unmanaged before you install”), however, other paragraphs further out indicated that the application server is being managed by the deployment manager. Core examples are on page 37 explaining that security should only be enabled on the deployment manager in order to not having to repeat the steps for each node, which indicated to me that the node must be managed at this point in time.

I am sure this procedure can be found all over the World Wide Web. However, I need to document it for myself here so I don’t have to search for it again.

Stop the Websphere application server.

Open the command prompt (in Windows) and browse to the Websphere home\bin\ directory. Issue ‘wsadmin.bat -conntype NONE’

This will come up with a message “WASX7357I: By request, this scripting client is not connected to any server process. Certain configuration and application operations will be available in local mode.”, which is pretty much confirming that the wsadmin is not connected to any server process.

Once launched issue ‘securityoff’ to the wsadmin console.

Restart the Websphere application server.

Just a quick note to everyone who is going to set-up Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 on the Nokia E63. We have had one issue where Traveler did not start synchronising after the successful set-up on the mobile device. Instead the Traveler home screen got stuck and the whole S60 operating system reacted very slowly.

IBM technical support is referring to this as the “home screen issue” and is working with Nokia on a solution. In the meantime you can request a test fix from IBM that will disable the Traveler home screen. Feel free to quote PMR 36532.120.796 if you are experiencing similar issues.