Every once in a while, a killer feature is introduced —a feature so good, so important, so helpful, that after using it, we just shake our heads and wonder how we ever managed without it for so long. Domino Domain Monitor (DDM) is just such a feature.
DDM is too large to be completely covered in this one section, so we will confine our overview to what it can do in terms of troubleshooting applications. For a more thorough explanation of DDM and all its features, see the book, Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 7 (www.packtpub.com/upgrading_lotus/book).
In the events4.nsf database, you will find a new group of documents you can create for tracking agent or application performance. On Domino 7 servers, a new database is created automatically with the filename ddm.nsf. This stores the DDM output you will examine.
For application troubleshooting, some of the most helpful areas to track using DDM are the following:
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