Lotus Nut

By default, BES debug logs are enabled at installation. They are not only enabled, but they have no roll-off time specified. I have seen this cause drive space issues (not to mention performance issues associated with so many heavily fragmented small files...)

To remedy this, you can open the BlackBerry Server Configuration and go to the Logging tab. From there, you will need enable the "Debug log auto-roll" and specify the number of days you wish to keep the logs in the "Debug log maximum daily file age" settings. In the example below, we will only be keeping 30 days worth of logs. After restarting the BES task and all of the BlackBerry Services, the files will be automatically purged.



Some notes:

You may just wish to restart the entire server instead of each of the individual services.

The daily folders will still exist, so do not panic if you still see them. They will exist because of three log files. By default, all BB phone calls are also logged. This is how your phone call logs get restored when you activate a new device. There are also some 2 SMS and PIN messaging log files. These are empty files by default, but administrators can enable this logging (without you being aware of it, by the way - you did know this, right?).

So go ahead and clean up your BES servers and try to remember to modify these logging parameters when you install the server (note to self...).

RIM has now made it easy to access Profiles and Dogear Lotus Connection services from a BlackBerry.

If you would like to download this directly from your BlackBerry, please visit this page: http://www.bleedyellow.com/bbconn/For_4.2.1/Connections.jad or http://www.bleedyellow.com/bbconn/For_4.6.0/Connections.jad

This is only available for BB OS 4.2.1 and greater. Once you download the application and launch it, you will be prompted to enter your username (email address) and password. Below the password field is a Server button. Click this and just enter https://www.bleedyellow.com. Save that value and then login!

Accessing Profiles and Dogear are actually fairly good starting points for this application. It will be great to access profile information (click-to-call Yellowbleeders...) and we all know that BlackBerry bookmarks don't get saved or restored, so just use Dogear!

For further information about the product, start here: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/domino/connections.jsphttp://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/domino/connections.jsp

Further documentation is available from the links below:

BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Release Notes
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Technical Note for Administrators
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackball devices)
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackwheel devices)