The Quickr Blog by Stuart McIntyre

Useful new article from the good folks at developerWorks:

Using REST services for IBM Lotus Quickr administration

This article provides an introduction to the administration console, new in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1, a short description of a new policy feature in Lotus Quickr 8.1, and a detailed look at the REST-based service that the console uses and that you can reuse to enhance your server's management.

The IBM Lotus Quickr administration console is new in Lotus Quickr 8.1 services for Lotus Domino. It offers a simple Web user interface that gives the Lotus Quickr server administrator a window onto the place activity on the Lotus Quickr server and a way to control the resources consumed by those places. This article provides an introduction to the capabilities of the console, a short description of a new policy feature in Lotus Quickr 8.1, and a detailed look at the REST-based service that the console uses and that you can reuse to enhance your server's management. After you learn about the REST service for administration and use the accompanying sample code, you can better understand how Atom-style services were used to build the console and how you can reuse the services for your own server administration.

As well as covering some quite advanced development topics, the article does give a useful summary of the new administration console within Quickr 8.1 (for Domino):

Lotus Quickr administration console

The administration console is a new and powerful administrative tool of Lotus Quickr 8.1 for Domino. Using this URL,
http://<>:<>/LotusQuickr/lotusquickr/admin.nsf/index.htm?Open
administrators can log on and execute their tasks, such as viewing all places, templates, and policies on the server, taking a detailed look at the information of a place, locking and unlocking a place, manipulating policies, and so on. All the administrative work in the administration console is implemented by the REST services, described in this article. Figure 1 shows an example of the administration console.

Figure 1. Administration console user interface

Not sure how many of you are using the admin console so far? Perhaps this might be the jog to make you go and take a closer look?