Lotus Domino Automatic Diagnostic Collection (ADC)

New feature introduced in Notes/Domino 6.01, new in 7.x is Additional logging choices Use most verbose logs available (Domino Controller, Console Log, Log.nsf)  the automatic diagnostic collection tool collects diagnostic data after server and client crashes and sends the collected data to a mail-in database when the server or client restarts.

You can store all of the Fault Report documents from all client and server crashes in a domain in one database, or you can create one database for server crashes and one database for client. Fault Analyzer is a server add-in task that processes all new crashes as they are delivered to the Automatic Data Collection mail-in database.
 
Disabling NSD file generation will impair the functionality of the automatic diagnostic data collection tool and Fault Analyzer.
Every 10 seconds the process determines whether the data modified time of any of the its monitored databases has changed and if so, fault analyzer scans for new unprocessed documents to try to match.
 
The Lotus Notes/Domino Fault Reports database is created for your domain during first server setup. You can, however, create additional fault report databases if needed.
 
Click the Server tab, Click Analysis. From the Tools pane, click Analyze - Open Fault Reports. The file name defaults to LNDFR.NSF.
 
Use the Server Configuration document --> Diagnostics tab to set up automatic diagnostic data collection on the server. You can also enable or disable Fault Analyses from this same tab
Use the Desktop policy settings --> Diagnostics tab document to set up automatic diagnostic data collection on clients.

• Mail-in database for diagnostic reports
• Maximum size of diagnostic message including attachments (in MB) - By default, a maximum of ten files of each type Includes all attachments -- NSD, console output, user defined files, and so forth.
• Maximum size of NSD output to attach (in MB) –default is 2MB, NSD output, starting at the beginning of the file
• Prompt user to send diagnostic report (only on client) – choose No to make this feature transparent to the user.
• Prompt user for comments (only on client) –Choose yes only if you selected yes for above
• Maximum amount of console output file to attach in (KB) / Amount (in KB) of diagnostic output file to send - Use the default value of 10240 (upper limit), or enter another value between 10mb and 1kb. CONSOLE.LOG beginning with the end of the file
• Diagnostic file patterns (new in 7.x): - Enter a file name pattern that Domino will search for. If the pattern is located and it is listed in the file, DIAGINDEX.NBF, the file will be attached to the message that is sent to the mail-in database.
• Remove diagnostic files after a specified number of days
• Number of days to keep diagnostic files - 365 days default , this field displayed only if above field is yes