New R5 Advanced Services

The following sections describe some of the new advanced services and features introduced in Domino R5.

Internet Cluster Manager (ICM)

One of the more useful tasks introduced in Domino R5 is the Internet Cluster Manager (ICM). The ICM will be described in detail, as well as how it works, how it can be best maintained, and how it can be monitored.

Description

As described earlier in this chapter, Domino 5.0 provides a new capability of clustering and load balancing for Internet applications and Web clients using the ICM tasks (both http and https protocols are supported). Prior to Domino 5.0, high availability using failover and load balancing was not support for Web clients and Web applications. The ICM acts as ...

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