Domino Change Detection Connector

The Domino® Change Detection Connector enables IBM® Security Directory Integrator to detect when changes have occurred to a database maintained on a Lotus® Domino server.

The Domino Change Detection Connector retrieves changes that occur in a database (NSF file) on a Domino Server. It reports changed Domino documents so that other repositories can be synchronized with Lotus Domino.

Note:

Due to the Lotus Notes® architecture this Connector requires native libraries (for both session types: IIOP as well as LocalClient), and is therefore only supported on Windows platforms; and the path to the local client libraries as well your Domino server installation should be added to the definition of the PATH variable in the IBM Security Directory Integrator Server startup script, ibmdisrv.bat.
Refer to Supported session types by Connector for an overview of which session types are possible with this Connector.

When running the Connector reports the object changes necessary to synchronize other repositories with a Domino database, regardless of whether these changes have occurred while the Connector has been offline or they are happening while it runs.

The Domino Change Detection Connector operates in Iterator mode, and reports document changes at the Entry level only.

On each AssemblyLine iteration the Domino Change Detection Connector delivers a single document object which has changed in the Domino database. The Connector delivers the changed Domino document objects as they are, with all their current items and also reports the type of object change - whether the document was added, modified or deleted. The Connector does not report which items have changed in this document or the type of item change. After the Connector retrieves a document change, it parses it and copies all the document items to a new Entry object as Entry Attributes. This Entry object is then returned by the Connector.

This connector supports Delta Tagging at the Entry level only.

This Connector can be used in conjunction with the IBM Password Synchronization plug-ins. For more information about installing and configuring the IBM Password Synchronization plug-ins, see the Password Synchronization Plug-ins.

The Connector stores locally, on the IBM Security Directory Integrator machine, the state of the synchronization. When started it continues from the last synchronization point and reports all changes after this point, including these changes that happened while the Connector was offline.

Note: Changed documents are not delivered in chronological order or in any other particular order, unless you check the "Deliver Sorted" checkbox in the configuration screen. Refer to Sorting for more information. Without using this option, it means that documents changed later can be delivered before documents changed earlier and vice versa.

The Connector will signal end of data and stop when there are no more changes to report. It can however be configured not to exit when all changes have been reported, but stay alive and repeatedly poll Domino for changes.