MessageStats 7.8 - Report Pack for Lotus & IBM Notes Release Notes

Quest® MessageStats® Report Pack for Notes ® 7.8

Quest® MessageStats® Report Pack for Notes ® 7.8

These release notes provide information about the Quest® MessageStats® Report Pack for Notes ® release.

•	About MessageStats Report Pack for Notes 7.8

•	Known issues

•	System requirements

•	Product licensing

•	Getting started with MessageStats Report Pack for Notes 7.8

•	Globalization

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About MessageStats Report Pack for Notes 7.8

About MessageStats Report Pack for Notes 7.8

MessageStats is a Windows-based data collection and reporting application that facilitates the analysis of messaging statistics for a number of messaging environments. With the extensive information that MessageStats gathers, MessageStats provides an extremely flexible web-based reporting engine that allows all interested individuals to view messaging information and to package the information in many different ways. All reports are available by accessing the web site directly, by signing up for automated subscriptions that can be sent to any email address, or through export to a number of supported formats.

The MessageStats Report Pack for Notes extends MessageStats by adding the ability to gather configuration and content information for the Notes environment. The report pack stores the information in the MessageStats database, to which additional tables are added when you install the report pack. The database provides content for the web-based MessageStats Reports. You can use the report pack as an assessment tool in planning for a Notes to Exchange migration.

MessageStats Report Pack for Notes 7.8 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. See Known issues.

 

Known issues

Known issues

The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.

 

Table 1. Gathering known issues

Known issue	Issue ID
Unable to run domain level tasks after deleting all servers from the domain using Database Management. If you have deleted all the Domino server objects in a domain and do not delete the Domino domain for the servers, it still appears in the treeview but all tasks run against the domain will fail. You must also delete the Domino domain using the Database Management.	113943
The Server Storage gathering, which collects the Domino server disk space information, supports only English-based locales. If the Domino server against which the Server Storage gathering is run has a non-English locale, the information is not correctly parsed.	229466
To be able to enumerate the databases on the Domino server, the report pack requires that there be a database catalog (catalog.nsf) available locally on each Domino server.	NA

 

System requirements

System requirements

You install the report pack components on servers on which the core MessageStats components are already installed. You must meet the software requirements for MessageStats. See the MessageStats Release Notes for the software requirements for the different MessageStats components.

The following table contains any additional requirements for the report pack:

 

 

Table 2. System minimum requirements

Requirement	Details
Hard disk space	20 MB of free disk space for the report pack application in addition to the space required for the core MessageStats product. The space requirement varies depending on the size of the database.
MessageStats Server (scheduler service and task processors)	The Notes client must be installed on the server that hosts the MessageStats task processors. NOTE: The Notes client must have been opened at least once and connected to a Domino server before the client can be used in MessageStats. MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) 2.7 SP 2 Refresh is required for a distributed installation. MDAC must be installed on the IIS Server and MessageStats console server; however, MDAC is not required for the database components.
Task Execution Server	The Notes client must be installed on each server that hosts the MessageStats task processors. NOTE: The Notes client must have been opened at least once and connected to a Domino server before the client can be used by MessageStats.
MMC Client Console	Microsoft .Net Framework 4.7.2 must be installed on the server that hosts the MessageStats MMC Client Console.
Supported Environment	At least one server running Lotus Domino 6.0, Lotus Domino 8.0, Lotus Domino 8.5, IBM Domino 9.0, IBM Domino 9.0.1, HCL Domino 11.0 or HCL Domino 11.0.1
Additional software	MessageStats 7.8

For detailed system requirements and list of rights and permissions necessary for product operation please refer to the MessageStats Report Pack for Notes User Guide.