Admin Tips from a Developer - HTML Directory and Server Restart
Found this tidbit of information today while troubleshooting a clients Domino 7.x server with one of my colleagues.
Here's the setup:
The issue our customer was having was that when the Domino server was turned on it was taking the Windows server a full 35 - 40 minutes to reboot. If the Domino server was off, it rebooted in a normal time frame. So we started the normal troubleshooting, checking corrupt databases, consistancy checks, debugging logs, etc. -- Nothing!
We could not find any errors in the Domino Log nor in the Windows Events Messages, nothing appeared to be going wrong except for the amount of time. Then we noticed this was all happening before the Domino Console even appeared, so the searching of the technotes began.
We found this technote (sorry, don't remember the number offhand Technote #1285795, Thanks Sjaak) mentioning that each time the Domino server starts up it scans all of the files and subdirectories in the html directory (\Lotus\Domino\data\domino\html). Upon checking that directory we found over 81 gigs of files in there (unbeknownst to the System Admin). The technote then states that if you change the attributes on those files to "Hidden", the server would not scan them. So we told Windows to do just that and it gave us a prompt stating that it would take 1 day and 12 hours to complete..... 30 minutes later it was done (Windows time calculations.... Sheesh!). We then rebooted the server and BINGO it worked like a charm.
Now the System Admin has the daunting task of finding out the owner(s) of the files and cleaning them up. I don't envy him.
Just a bit of information I thought I would pass along. Later.
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1 Chris Mobley Permalink I'd love to know where the 81gb if data came from. I always thought of \Lotus\Domino\data\domino\html as not being that dynamic.
2 Sjaak Ursinus Permalink I really would like to know what technote that was. Can't find it myself
3 Sjaak Ursinus Permalink I found it ... well i had already searched for it for 15 mins or so. Couldn't find it at first hand so I pasted my reaction above this one :-)
after posting my comment I did't stop searching and well 2 or 3
mins after the posted comment I found the mentioned technote.
Its document number 1285795
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21285795
4 Michael Smelser Permalink @Sjaak - Thanks for the assistance in finding this again. I'm sure others will find it useful as well.
5 Scott Hooks Permalink I believe that this is because the Agent Manager scans all files in the data directory and subdirectories (not just HTML) for any agents that need to run. There really should be an option to exclude certain directories.