'Tuner Blog

Greetings fellow 'Tuners!

Thanks to Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead for providing the words for this mid-month title...  If you click "Check for Updates" and get new rules and a new template, don't get too excited.  This mid-month release is a fix release.  I received feedback via the forums, email and SameTime regarding folks having an issue with DCT.  The symptom is the repeated presence of the "Before you can use the Domino Configuration Tuner you need to restart your Notes Client" upon opening the application. The DCT applet resource had a jar with a time stamp that was exactly an hour off from what exists on disk.  While these files are the same, the time stamp difference causes the application to attempt to deploy a new jar.  The currently deployed jar is 'in use' at this point, causing a race condition which presents itself as the symptom described above.  

If you encounter this issue, please download a fresh copy of DCT.NTF and *replace* the design of your existing DCT.  After replacing the design, DCT should operated normally.  Thanks to all who reported this - all feedback is appreciated!

Peace out.

Greetings on the second Tuesday of the month - new updates are available, go get 'em!  This months updates (originally posted FTOTM, updated today) contains two new rules and an update to the engine.  The engine will now handle an ampersand in the Domino domain name.  The two new rules are HTTP_MaxActiveThreads which will work to optimize CPU utilization for the HTTP task and LOG_DIRCAT which specifies how much, if any, Directory Catalog task information is logged.  Thanks to Ulrich Krause who was quick to catch the exception occurring in the HTTP_MaxActiveThreads rule (fixed in today's posting) - much appreciated!

In other news, DCT is now part of the IBM Support Assistant (ISA)!  ISA is available for download here.  I believe that it is free, though it does require and IBM ID and password.  Also, in case you haven't seen it on the Notes/Domino wiki, please be sure to visit the Collections of NOTES.INI settings page for all things notes.ini.

As always, your feedback is requested and appreciated.  Enjoy!