What prevents admins moving to Domino on Linux?
Daniel Nashed – 24 February 2024 21:22:12
Over the years I have spent a lot of time to make it easy to run Domino on Linux.My start script project helped many customers to manage their servers (https://nashcom.github.io/domino-startscript/)..
The start script has been available first for HP-UX, then Solaris and AIX until Domino 5.0.3 started to provide Linux support.
Later when sys-epoll and posix threads (pthreads) have been introduced to Linux, it became mainstream, more scalable and stable than Windows.
I still see most customers are running Domino on Windows.
But with a little extra know-how running on Linux could make admin's life even easier than on Windows.
HCL Domino Container Community Image
The HCL Domino Container Community project even allows to install and update all add-ons in a very simple way.
With the new MyHCLSoftware and my Domino Download script (https://nashcom.github.io/domino-startscript/dominoctl/) you can even fully automate downloads and container builds.
For containers there is an equivalent of the Domino Start Script -- dominoctl (https://nashcom.github.io/domino-startscript/dominoctl/).
The Domino Start Script is also running inside the container and works hand in hand with dominoctl.
All in all for native Domino on Linux and running in a container environment, this should be pretty easy today to run Domino on Linux.
New native Domino start menu
Today I worked on another additional helpful component. In a similar way as I added the build menu to the container image, I am now introducing a simple Domino Start Script menu with the mostly used options.
If you invoke the start script without parameters, you land in a new menu.
The menu also offers an option to setup the server using OTS and shows the server status.
Now with all those options and scripts I might need to add some additional howto documentation.
I am also working on an install script, to install Domino native with all the options -- basically by re-using the build.sh script from the container project.
So with all of this available what prevents admins moving to Domino on Linux?
If you are running Domino Windows I want to hear from you.
What prevents you from not making the move?
I hope you are attending Engage conference in April and you might want to join us in the Domino on Linux round table session -- which would be an excellent opportunity to provide feedback as well.
-- Daniel
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