In previous releases of Notes/Domino, when the administrator moved or deleted a database, it was sometimes difficult to have end users redirect their links to the new location or (in the case of deletion) shift them to a replica. To address this, Domino 8 introduces a new feature called database redirect.
To redirect to a database that is being moved, open the administration client and select the database under the Files tab. Then, in the right-hand pane, select Database | Move....
Select the servers to which you want to move the database, and select the directory in which the databases should be placed. In the right-hand pane, select the server, and in the lower right-hand section select Create a redirect marker for updating client references. This creates the redirection after the administrative process completes the move.
Under the administration client Files tab, select the database to be moved. Then, in the right-hand pane, select Database | Delete as shown in the following figure.
In the dialog box, select the Create a marker that allows clients to update their references to this database option.
Then choose the server to which users will be redirected to access the database. This is very useful when deleting a database on a specific server where the end user population is known.
You can then move users to a replica on another server so as to help balance the load within the environment. When the following dialog box is presented, click Add to select the replica to which users are to be redirected.
When selecting the database for redirection, you have the option of selecting which users should be redirected to the replica of the database. (This is an optional step in the redirect process.)
