Configuring
After you have prepared your on-premises environment, configure
the service to work with your environment. You must have the Administrator
role to perform configuration tasks. If you have the User Administrator
role, you can perform most of the administration tasks but cannot
perform configuration tasks. For information about the responsibilities
of User Administrators, see Understanding roles .
Roadmap to configuring a hybrid environment
When you configure a hybrid environment, you establish
connections between your on-premises IBM® Domino® servers
and IBM
SmartCloud® Notes® servers.
To help you accomplish this task, a Domain Configuration tool is provided
for you that makes the necessary configuration changes to your environment,
based on information you provide. During configuration you also provide
a certifier ID for your SmartCloud Notes mail
servers and you enable the service to verify ownership of at least
one Internet domain.
Logging on as the first company administrator
An IBM Customer
Service Representative creates the IBM
SmartCloud Notes account
for your company. This step creates a company administrator account
under a name and email address provided by your company. IBM sends an email to the address confirming
your purchase. To activate the account for your company, follow the
URL link in this email and log on to the IBM Connections™
Cloud website
as the company administrator.
Completing a checklist to prepare for configuration
Before you prepare account settings and configure the service,
complete the checklist in this topic to verify that all prerequisite
tasks are complete.
Configuring your hybrid account settings
Perform
the tasks in this section to configure a hybrid
environment, one in which the IBM
SmartCloud Notes service
is integrated with IBM Domino servers
at your company site.
Using the Pre-configuration Test tool to check your environment
After you prepare your on-premises environment but before
you run the Domain Configuration tool to configure it to connect to
the IBM
SmartCloud Notes service,
download and run the SmartCloud Notes Hybrid
Pre-configuration tool. This tool runs a series of tests to determine
if the servers in your environment are set up correctly. The tool
provides a report that identifies any issues that might prevent communication
between your environment and the service. The tool does not change
your configuration.
Reviewing your setup and enabling your account
Before you can download and run the Domain Configuration
tool, all of the required hybrid account setup information must be
complete. When you check the status of the information you provided,
any incomplete items are identified.
Downloading and running the Domain Configuration tool
The Domain Configuration tool configures your on-premises
servers to connect to your hosted IBM
SmartCloud Notes servers.
The server configuration information that you provide in the Account
Settings of SmartCloud Notes Administration
is the data that is used to configure the connections.
Verifying Internet domains
Internet domain name
verification is a standard industry practice among domain hosting
services to confirm domain name ownership and to prevent abuse of
user accounts. You need to verify only the domain names that correspond
to Internet addresses of users that you are provisioning.
Using DNS SPF records for Internet domains
Create Domain Name Service (DNS) Sender Policy Framework
(SPF) records to identify all of the Internet domains you use in SmartCloud Notes Internet
addresses. These SPF records should specify that the SmartCloud Notes servers
are permitted to send email on behalf of all of your domains.
Activating your account
After you have set up and configured your on-premises
environment by downloading and running the Domain Configuration tool,
you must activate your account. When your account is activated, your
on-premises servers can connect to the IBM
SmartCloud Notes servers,
and the SmartCloud Notes servers
can connect to your on-premises servers.
Running configuration tests
After you run the Domain Configuration tool, verify that
servers in the service can connect to your on-premises servers.
Completing the configuration
After you have completed the account setup for your organization,
perform the tasks in this section to complete the configuration.