Today I installed Domino 8.0 on our POWER5 AIX 5L 5.3 test server, and it doesn't want to accept our existing server id files. I saw on a IBM SPR that a similar issue has been reported, but I don't know yet - until it's fixed in 8.0.1 - if that fixes also this issue.
When I force it to eat the id file (by ftp:ing the id file to the server and using vi to edit the server's notes.ini file to use that id file), it runs fine for a few minutes, although still complaining that the public certificate does not match, but after a few minutes it brings up another error message related to the id file ("The subject's public key found in the certificate is not the one stored in the ID file for that entity."), and you can't connect to the server anymore.
Now I have 3 options:
1) Wait until Domino 8.0.1 comes out.
2) Try Domino 7.0.3 on AIX 5.3.
3) Try Domino 8.0 on SUSE 10.3.
Let's see:
1) I want to continue the migration testing, waiting must wait, so this is no option for me.
2) This will probably work, and it's what I will do on the AIX machine next.
3) This might work, but I don't want to trash the AIX installation just yet, since so far AIX has worked well. I will try this on a Windows 2003 server though.
VNC server works great on AIX, it's very smooth and fast to use, much faster than Windows Remote Desktop on a Windows 2003 server. And it supports even multiple simultaneous users (multiple mouse cursors), while the VNC for Windows supports only 1 mouse cursor for simultaneous users. Windows Remote Desktop doesn't even support simultaneous users at all, which is a waste of valuable work time.
The funny thing is that the AIX server (IBM System p) doesn't even have a graphics card, but well what is a graphics card anyway, just an additional CPU to focus on graphics operations, a POWER5 CPU can do that with almost idling:
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| | Chris
Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:16:31 EET |
| | I haven't used AIX in years, but last time I used it it used CDE. Looking at your picture, does it now come with KDE as the default windowing environment?
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| | Mika
Friday, 18 January 2008 02:55:51 EET |
| | Well, Gnome and KDE as well as other essential tools like GNU C++ compiler comes with the "Linux Toolbox for AIX" CD.
Gnome didn't work though (the library versions didn't match), so I had to use KDE, which is not worse :)
The default AIX X-Windows window manager is twm, which is quite useless. But I guess most AIX people use just SSH anyway, and no graphical environment.
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| | Mika
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 22:52:11 EET |
| | Update on the issues:
1) Wait until Domino 8.0.1 comes out.
It's out. It works fine.
2) Try Domino 7.0.3 on AIX 5.3.
No need, the problem was not in 8.0. It was a problem with a conflicting cross-certificate. I deleted the cross-certificate and everything worked OK. AIX5L and Linux runs fine with 8.0, and now also 8.0.1.
3) Try Domino 8.0 on SUSE 10.3.
Works fine, and I am using it on my own server.
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