Domino System Administration Products/Tools

Following up on the Lotus Notes/Domino Product Catalog I started a few weeks ago, below is a list (certainly incomplete) of Lotus Notes/Domino Administration tools.  I'd like your help in both filling in the products I've missed, as well as figuring out what categories I should break them down into for easier searching.  This list currently does not include email management, anti-virus, nor backup/restore products, I'll be posting them soon, but I wanted to get the information below out in the mean time.

Make sure to see the Lotus Domino Catalog on IBM.com, and the Global Solutions Directory Catalog and Business Partner Application Showcase on IBM PartnerWorld.

Last updated: June 30, 2008

Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Tools: Companies A - I  / Companies J - Z
*not including email management, backup/restore, anti-virus, etc.

Axceler - ServerAdmin Plus: Easily address critical administrative challenges including Security, User and Group Management, Mail File and Database Management, and Server and Client Management.   Provides comprehensive analysis that can be used to identify and immediately act on problems in your environment.

AedifiComm - WorkplaceControl: Lets Notes administrators centrally manage, upgrade, migrate, and control the user environment.

Asia/Pacific Computer Services - NotesTracker: a universal enabler for profiling the usage of any of your IBM Lotus Notes databases, in a common way across both Notes and Web environments and with a common, easily-understood reporting mechanism. Track usage in real time and understand how your applications are being used -- for compliance, control and all sorts of other purposes.

Atlantic Decisions - Active User Monitor: Whether you are upgrading to Domino 6 and want to cleanup your address book before upgrading or are just tired of paying for unused licenses this application can help identify inactive users.

Atlantic Decisions - Angkor: Control the costs of administration and application maintenance of your Lotus Notes infrastructure.  Determine the high value applications and who is using them.  Manage storage requirements and consolidate servers.  Identify the mission critical applicafions for ND6 or Websphere upgrades.

Atlantic Decisions - Password Management Utility: Allows administrators to centrally manage users passwords for Domino and Websphere servers.

BinaryTree - CMT for Notes Domains, Servers, Users, and Desktops: Designed to dramatically reduce the effort and expense usually associated with the process of migrating, consolidating, or separating Lotus Notes Domains.

Botstation - Larm-O-Matic: Provides Domino administrators and developers with easy configurable tool to monitor important Domino functions.

CHC-3 Consulting  - DB Mover - A tool for moving databases from an old server onto a new, replacement server

CooperTeam - ACLManager: Designed as an active part of your company’s security policy for accessing information, ACLManager manages the access rights to your various applications. ACLManager is able to continuously monitor your databases in order to secure and maintain your initial access rights.

CooperTeam - DeskTop Manager: Provides a complete remote administration of your companywide Lotus Notes clients. All aspects of Client administration and maintenance can be defined and managed centrally.

CooperTeam - InfoNSF: Precise information, for a complete understanding of your Notes environment.  Database information is presented in an easy overview that can be interpreted by the Administrator or Developer. The build-in alert view can be used to automate daily tasks in managing your Notes databases. Auditing all Notes Databases in a flash for consolidation and migration projects is now possible.

dotNSF - LTPA Renewal: Allows users to renew their LTPA tokens automatically as they work and demonstrate they are still actively using the system.

dotNSF - Single Sign On for IIS: A secure and robust way to extend SSO from LTPA IBM servers such as Domino, WebSphere, Lotus Document Manager (Domino.Doc), Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) - to Microsoft IIS.

DYS - CONTROL! Enterprise Edition: IT organizations can efficiently collect, analyze, report and alert on enterprise wide activity all the way down to a server, user, database or even network link.  Four CONTROL! application management suites are available: Email CONTROL!, Replication CONTROL!, Application CONTROL!, and Collaboration CONTROL!.

DYS - CONTROL! Standard Edition: A suite of products for the Small to Medium sized business (under 3,000 seats) that helps significantly reduce Domino messaging and database costs and improve service level performance by providing comprehensive usage analyses and alerts on your Domino infrastructure.

DYSANT - AuditLog: Used to monitor the changes occurring in the databases structures, resulting from business processes implementation.

GSX - Automated Lotus Notes ID & Directory Management

GSX - Automated Maintenance: Automate the maintenance procedures you are now performing manually and automatically ensure that your servers are always running with maximum amount of available resources.

GSX - Domino Server Monitoring and Statistics Reporting: Gives you a global view showing the real-time status of your entire server network. At a glance, provides you with key status information so you don't have to dig through endless screens just to see if your servers are healthy.

GSX - File Manager: Allows you to centrally manage the installation and deletion of Notes databases and other files on Domino servers.

HADSL - Federated Identity & Resource Manager (FirM): Allows you to federate user management down to business users in your organisation, increasing service level, increasing control and improving environmental consistency.

HELP Software - Agent Auditor produces a detailed agent inventory for selected databases, reports potential problems and calculates the scheduled agent load for a server. Agent Auditor requires Notes/Domino 6.x.

HELP Software - Database Activity identifies unused databases and much more. Database Activity consists of four separate utilities (Activity Summaries, Activity Alarms, Activity Details, and Mail File Activity) to monitor and analyze user activity logs.

HELP Software - Desktop Manager: When you change a server name or decommission a server in your organization, end users are left with database icons and bookmarks that point to an old server and / or database path. In addition, some settings in location documents, connection documents and the NOTES.INI file may contain incorrect values. Desktop Manager automates the process of updating all of these quickly and easily.

HELP Software - GroupFlow: automates group management. Adds workflow to the tasks of creating and deleting groups, adding and removing group members, changing group owners, changing group names and more. With GroupFlow you can get out of the group management business and hand off group management related tasks to group owners.

HELP Software - History: Find out who's using their Notes license and who isn't. Why pay for licenses that aren't being used? Also tracks the version and license type for each user.

HELP Software - ID Manager automates Notes ID creation, distribution, recertification, name changes and termination. With ID Manager, much of the ID creation process can be given to the help desk or other non-administrators without giving them access to your certifier IDs.

HELP Software - Power Tools: 63 administrative tools for Notes / Domino to help you monitor and manage ACLs, agents, attachments, database properties, dead mail, groups, large mail files (and large attachments), LOG.NSF, mail files, orphan documents, reader and author names fields, replication, replication or save conflict documents, SMTP work queues, templates, and more.

IBM Tivoli - IntelliWatch Pinnacle for Distributed Systems: A comprehensive systems management solution for Lotus Domino, offers a wide range of features including: automated problem detection and correction, system-wide product configuration options, custom statistics and reporting capabilities, and fault recovery.

IBM Tivoli - Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration for Lotus Domino Servers: Ensures the availability and optimal performance of Lotus Domino server environments.

ICODEX Software - INTEGRATE!People: Empowers Notes / Domino environments with comprehensive central desktop, bookmark and replicator page management, desktop roaming and –recovery, as well as portal content management features.

Infoware Solutions - Database Management Tool: For managing IBM Lotus Domino databases, standardize the ACL, the access groups and the attributes of files (nsf). Furthermore DMT decentralize the responsibility of the databases to specific database owners.

Infoware Solutions - Mailpak Archiving Tool: A disk saving tool for easily automating the process of archiving old IBM Lotus Domino mail messages.

Infoware Solutions - Mailpak Out of Office:  A server task based tool providing centralized “Out of Office” integration with IBM Lotus Domino mail.  Supports both IBM Lotus Domino Web Access and IBM Lotus Notes client

Infoware Solutions - Mailpak Quota Tool: Interacts with the standard IBM Lotus Domino mail database quota, Domino quota, and offers the possibility to get mail database statistics and send specific Mailpak QT messages to users, centralizes and automates the quota maintenance and supports automatic quota management on replicas as well.

Infoware Solutions - PDA Management Tool: For enhancing administration of a OneBrigde Mobile Groupware Server for IBM Lotus Domino. The product addresses the following issues: user management, billing, authentication, deployment of new users, ease of administration, delegation of administration to groups in your organization, software distribution and individual application installation.

Infoware Solutions - User Management Tool: Makes it possible to perform user administration in an easy, conformed, time saving and secure manner.

IONET - Change Manager for Domino: Provides change management and audit trail reporting for Domino Server R6+ configuration and security settings, as well as allowing the comparison of configurations and validation of Directory contents.

IVE Technologies - ACL Dominator: A platform-independent ACL Management Security Tool allowing Access Control Lists to be quickly and easily managed across all databases on a Lotus Domino network.

IVE Technologies - AttachZIP: An attachment compression and archive solution for Lotus Notes which significantly reduces database sizes on Lotus Domino servers.


Companies A - I  / Companies J - Z