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Acquire a Lotus Notes/Domino Server Using the Provisioning Manager

Acquiring an LND endpoint is the first task you must perform before you can manage Lotus Notes/Domino accounts.

From the Endpoint Type task view

1. Register the server as an LND endpoint using the Provisioning Manager.

   Use the LND Endpoint property sheet to register a Domino Server. During the registration process, the Provisioning Server identifies the Domino Server you want to administer and gathers information about it.

   Note: Regarc and Regcert databases are created when a new endpoint is acquired. For the LND Connector to work, you must copy the database templates, REGARCHV.NTF and REGCERTS.NTF, from the <jcs-home>\resources\lnd folder to the data folder of the domino server endpoint, (<lotus-home>\Data), prior to acquiring the endpoint for the first time.

2. Explore the objects that exist on the endpoint.

   After registering the server with the Provisioning Manager you can explore its contents. Use the Explore and Correlate Endpoint dialog. The Exploration process finds all LND accounts, organizations, organizational units, and groups that exist on the server. You can correlate the accounts with global users at this time or later

3. Correlate the explored accounts with global users.

When you correlate accounts, the Provisioning Server creates or links the accounts on an endpoint with global users. By correlating accounts, you can specify what fields are matched with global user fields. The Provisioning Server provides a default correlation account template for Lotus Notes/Domino endpoints. This account template performs the following actions in this order:

1. The Provisioning Server attempts to match the Lotus Notes/Domino Account short name with each existing global user's unique name. If a match is found, the Provisioning Server associates the Lotus Notes/Domino account with the global user. If a match is not found, the Provisioning Server performs the next step.
2. The Provisioning Server attempts to match the Lotus Notes/Domino Account name with each existing global user's full name. If a match is found, The Provisioning Server associates the Lotus Notes/Domino account with the global user. If a match is not found, the Provisioning Server performs the next step.
3. If Create Global User is checked, the Provisioning Server creates a new global user; otherwise, it associates the Lotus Notes/Domino account with the [default user] object.

Once the endpoint is acquired, your Lotus Notes/Domino server appears as an endpoint object and your accounts are organized according to their respective certifier container.

The position of user objects within the endpoint is specified by its context. The complete context or path from an object to the country of the endpoint tree identifies and forms the object's hierarchical name, for example, eTLNDAccountName=xx,eTLNDOrganizationUnitName=yy,eTLNDOrganizationName,eTLNDCountryName=zz. All hierarchical names must be unique in the endpoint.

Before accounts can be created under the explored organizations or organizational units, each of the account containers must have their certifier details registered in the regcert.nsf database.

To register the certifier details

1. Search for the appropriate certifier (eTLNDOrganization or eTLNDOrganizationalUnit) in Provisioning Manager, and select it.
2. Right click the certifier, and from the popup menu, select custom.
3. Select 'Certifier Detail' and provide the certifier ID location on the Domino server and the certifier ID password and type.