"The specified notes.ini is invalid; select another to continue" appears during ScanMail for IBM Domino (SMID) installation

- Updated:
- 25 Apr 2017
- Product/Version:
- ScanMail for IBM Domino 5.0 AIX
- ScanMail for IBM Domino 5.6 Linux
- ScanMail for IBM Domino 5.6 Windows
- ScanMail for Lotus Domino 5.5 Linux
- ScanMail for Lotus Domino 5.5 Windows
- Platform:
- IBM AIX 5.3
- Linux - Red Hat RHEL 6 64-bit
- Linux - SuSE 11 64-bit
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows 2008 Server R2

Summary

When you enter notes.ini to install SMID, the following error prompts:

The specified notes.ini is invalid; select another to continue

Details

Starting from SMID 5.5, the enhanced integrity checking requires the following parameters in notes.ini:

NotesProgram
Directory
ServerTasks

The issue occurs when one of the parameters above is missing.

To resolve the issue, make sure that those three (3) parameters exist in your notes.ini. If not, add the missing parameter according to your Domino installation.

For example, if you installed the Domino in w:\, the parameters are similar to the following:

NotesProgram=W:/notes
Directory=W:\notes\data
ServerTasks=Replica,Router,Update,AMgr,Adminp,Sched,CalConn,RnRMgr,POP3,LDAP

Rating:

Category:

Troubleshoot

Solution Id:

1103491

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