Best Practices for Installing IBM Verse on Premises
- 1. Best practises for deploying Verse on Premise (VoP) • Tim Clark www.bcchub.com contact@bcc.biz
- 2. Who am I? Tim Clark • Director Services & Support • Domino Admin (ish) • Project Manager
- 3. Agenda • Why deploy VOP? • Plan / Set a goal • Know your requirements • Installing and configuring • Integrating with Connections, Docs, Sametime & Box • Deploy & Test first • Roll out in phases
- 4. Why deploy Verse-On-Premises • Mail only users • Nicer interface than iNotes • No Notes client required – Use ICAA for Applications • Integration points – Connections Files & Profiles – IBM Docs – IBM Sametime – Box
- 5. And now ….
- 6. Plan / Set a goal • Set time aside for downtime on mail server – Update to 9.0.1 – Install fixes – Edit notes.ini – Restart server • Ensure back up of all mail files • Don’t rush! #engageug
- 7. Know your requirements • Current version VOP 1.3 • System requirements - http://bit.ly/vop103sysreq • Remove older versions before you install • Ensure integration pre-reqs are satisfied (& tested) – check those system requirements again!
- 8. Installing and configuring • Straight forward process – Create CredStore – Down the server – Copy the files on – Edit the notes.ini – Start the server • Configuration – Replace iNotes redirector – Mail file template update – Compact mail files – Full text indexes #engageug
- 9. Integrating with Connections Connections Requirements • Connections 6 or 5.5 CR2 • Internet mail address must match the address used in Connections profiles • Ensure SSL is configured for Domino and Connections and SSO is working • Configure Connections HTTP server - http://bit.ly/vop103cnx • Restart #engageug
- 10. Integrating with Docs Docs Requirements • Enable CORS on IBM Docs to allow cross origin requests – http://bit.ly/docs_cores – Add WhiteDomainList field to • concord-config.json • viewer-config.json OR – Run the domain_list_mgr.py • Ensure HTTPS is used #engageug
- 11. Enhancing with Sametime Sametime • Ensure iNotes / ST integration is completed • Make notes.ini changes on verse server – VOP_GK_sametime=1 – VOP_GK_sametime_ri ch_client=1 • Add verse server trusted ip in community server config • Restart the server #engageug Thanks to Millan Matejic for the screenshots (blog post here: http://bit.ly/st-vop)
- 12. Enhancing with Box Box • Super simple • Create a new app at developer.box.co m • Add the client ID to the notes.ini on verse server VOP_BOX_CLIENT_ID=client_id • Restart the server #engageug
- 13. Deploy and test first • Deploy on a test box • Run up a VM in your domain • Test deployment • SSL must be enabled • If you must do it on a live machine create a new mail file for testing
- 14. Roll out in phases • Server first • Modify mail files • Template • Full text index • Running compact • Once one mail file is completed do in batches • DONE!!
- 15. V10 and beyond • Pre version 10 – Aug 2018 • V10 – Q4 2018 • Continuous delivery 2019 • Long term support no end date • iNotes may be deprecated in V11