The Costs and Challenges of the Legacy Environment

The challenge surrounding this is cost of the legacy infrastructure, a distributed number of servers, and how to minimize these to reduce costs. Managing any consolidation when the user community is no longer using Domino becomes a responsibility that can be overwhelming.

Domino Consolidator Simplifies the Consolidation and Retirement of the Lotus Domino Environment

Binary Tree’s Domino Consolidator helps to greatly curtail this challenge and ease the responsibility surrounding it. By using the Domino Consolidator, organizations can centralize the distributed servers to a smaller footprint, update the automation of agents, and easily update end user workstations to reflect the smaller number of servers. In doing so, the organization can decommission additional servers, consequently reducing the associated licensing costs of the additional Domino servers.

Binary Tree’s Domino Consolidator is a Domino based interface that will move applications remaining after the migration, to a smaller number of Domino servers. The solution can then update all agents to run on the new servers. Once this has been completed, the user community is sent a Domino based email which will reconfigure the end user workstation Lotus Notes Client to reflect this smaller Domino infrastructure. The solution provides reporting in terms of who has completed the process, who had issues, and who is remaining to complete.

Without Domino Consolidator	With Domino Consolidator
Management of Migration Process
Progress & status of various migration tasks are obtained by time-consuming means of emails, telephone calls and review of various databases.	All information is available via a click of a button in views corresponding to single or multiple migration steps. Built-in workflow logic drives the entire migration process
Environment & User Audit
Information about servers, Databases & users is obtained by using a variety of Domino tools or manually	Information is obtained via a click of a button & managed in an easy to use view
Moving applications to a different Notes Domain and/or Domino server
Task is performed manually via a complex series of administrative commands & actions requiring careful planning & time consuming execution.	Task is performed via a click of a button. Subsequent progress monitoring is also done via a click of a button & reflects various stages of move for users and/or applications.
	Domino Directory replication is initiated instantly between all pre-selected Domino servers.
Monitoring Move Progress
Task is performed manually for individual applications by reviewing logs and various databases	Task is performed via a click of a button & reflects various stages of move progress for each application
Notes Desktop Update
Task is performed manually by different means of desktop access; personal visits, remote access, telephone calls, or email instructions from administrators	Task is performed via a click of a button resulting in distribution of completely customizable emails containing buttons to completely update desktops with minimal user interaction
Monitoring Desktop Update progress
Desktop update is virtually impossible to effectively monitor unless it is performed manually for each user	Execution of Desktop Update button results in detailed process logs automatically emailed to Domino Consolidator for effective process monitoring

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Reducing Costs by Consolidating Your Domino Infrastructure