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Mean Time Between Failure for Lotus Notes-Domino

Sandbox sample submitted by Lotus/IBM.

Domino server add-in that calculates several Domino server uptime statistics. (Version 4.8).
Category:Tools
Audience:System Administrator
Product:Notes/Domino
Release:All Releases
Platform:Platform Independent
Date Posted:09/12/2003
File Size:306,132 bytes

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Detailed Description:
This tool allows administrators to monitor their server uptime performance. This update is Y2K compliant.

For more information on MTBF, see the Iris Today article, "Measuring your Domino server's reliability."

To use the MTBF:
  1. Unzip mtbf.exe
  2. Extract the MTBF template
  3. Extract add-ins based on the platform you want to monitor
PC platforms (nmtbf.exe - NT/Intel; amtbf.exe - NT/Alpha; imtbf.exe - OS/2; vmtbf.nlm & vmtbf.dll - NLM)If you are upgrading please delete the old mtbf.exe and copy the following files as is to the Domino Server Program directory as is.
UNIX files (mtbf.aix & mtbf.res.aix - AIX; mtbf.sol & mtbf.res.sol - SOLARIS SPARC; mtbf.sol.x86 & mtbf.res.solx86 - SOLARIS X86; mtbf.hpux & mtbf.res.hpux - HPUX; mtbf.hp.461 & mtbf.res.hp.461 - HPUX 4.6.1; mtbf.res.linux & mtbf.linux - LINUX)Following the download, rename mtbf.xxx to mtbf and mtbf.res.xxx to mtbf.res and copy to appropriate directories and set appropriate permissions.
OS/390 files (mtbf & mtbf.res)Following the download, copy to appropriate directoires and set appropriate permissions.
iSeries platform (mtbf.savf & mtbfifs.savf)
  1. Send the two attached save files to your iSeries and place in library QGPL. (ftp commands to send files from client to iSeries from an established ftp session):
    cd qgpl
    quote site na 1
    bi
    put mtbf.savf mtbfs.savf
    put mtbfifs.savf mtbfifs.savf
  2. Restore the objects with the two commands:
    RSTOBJ OBJ(MTBF) SAVLIB(QUSRNOTES) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/MTBF)
    and
    RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MTBFIFS.FILE') OBJ(('/qibm/userdata/lotus/notes/*'))
  3. Copy the mtbf template file to the Domino data directory:
    CPY OBJ('/qibm/userdata/lotus/notes/mtbf.ntf') TODIR('/Domino_datadir')
  4. Change the owner back to QNOTES:
    CHGOWN OBJ('/Domino_datadir/mtbf.ntf') NEWOWN(QNOTES)
  5. The remainder of the setup instructions for MTBF are the same as the other platforms and can be obtained from the article on notes.net.

Read the Using document for usage instructions in the MTBF template
Additional descriptions of changes made to the files can be found in the readme.txt file included in mtbf.exe


All Sandbox downloads are licensed as-is, unsupported, and non-warranted.

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Reviews
Mean Time Between Failure for Lotus Notes-Domino (Submitted by Lotus/IBM - 17.03.1999)
comment Does this work properly now? (Submitted by Irene Warden - 11.04.2003)
comment Missing Files? (Submitted by Brian W Wiggins - 17.04.2003)
rating: 3 stars Could be useful (Submitted by Simon Barratt - 22.04.2003)
rating: 4 stars Usefull but i still have problem with crash/shutdown mistake (Submitted by fernand marques - 23.04.2003)
rating: 3 stars No support for R6 log format (Submitted by Doug Bruce - 30.04.2003)
comment The zip file does not have the correct date on it, however, the iSeries MTBF inside the zip file is the one that can be run against R5 and D6. (Submitted by Beverly W Cusato - 10.07.2003)
rating: 1 star I think we will never ever see a working version. (Submitted by Stefan Becker - 26.07.2000)
rating: 1 star Still incorrectly logging server shutdowns as Crashes (Submitted by Irene Warden - 02.07.2001)
comment Does this work on R5 or RNext? (Submitted by Darryl Wilburn - 16.11.2001)
comment Where Can I Get Version 4.2 (Submitted by David Trinh - 04.02.2003)
comment key functionality "gone" (Submitted by peter bankmann - 05.01.2000)
comment Where is the Readme.txt & mtbf.ntf ??? (Submitted by Sachin Wadhwa - 21.08.2003)
rating: 4 stars I haven't seen that problem.... (Submitted by Jon Johnston - 26.01.2000)
comment When will the problem about the server shutdowns displaying as crashes be resolved? (Submitted by Greg Feary - 09.02.2000)
comment Looked interensting, but: not even passed first step! (Submitted by Francesco Sarzana - 25.05.2001)
rating: 5 stars Great, but ... (Submitted by Stefan Becker - 03.01.2000)
rating: 4 stars Savefiles - where to find (Submitted by Michael Medenblik - 19.02.2004)
comment Where is the S390 version? (Submitted by Dolby Linwood - 20.03.2004)
rating: 4 stars Good Tools and help (Submitted by Manny Gopaul - 09.02.2005)
comment Great utility - just a few comments (Submitted by Rene Elgaard - 16.03.2006)
rating: 4 stars Server Performance (Submitted by David DA Arango - 17.06.2006)
comment see below (Submitted by carol townsend - 20.11.2006)
comment Okay now where is the ntf file? (Submitted by Ron Shue - 02.08.2007)
rating: 5 stars re: Server Performance (Submitted by Doug Jamieson - 21.09.2007)
rating: 5 stars New Version! (Submitted by Ben Rose - 08.03.2002)
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comment I can't find the files for iSeries platform (Submitted by lei sd wang - 30.03.2008)
rating: 5 stars I can (Submitted by lei sd wang - 30.03.2008)

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