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Anyone who has been working with Notes for awhile can tell you what a 'run once' agent is. And a newbie can't. And here's the weird part - the reason the new kids don't know what a run once agent is, would be a surprise to the old timers. That's because run once agents disappeared in ND6 and us old guys forget that (because we don't think about it, not because we are forgetful). Although in typical Lotus fashion, the run once flag is still used - but now it means that the target documents of the agent are 'none', which of course makes it perfectly clear for all of us. ;)

And the real reason I bring this up is that I was trying to get a handle on all the agents on my server, and not just the scheduled ones. I found a wide variety of issues with a lot of agents, Things like nonexistent servers to run on, agent signers not authorized to run restricted agents or is it unrestricted? Which agents are more powerful? That's right, the unrestricted agent can do anything. It's not that the restricted agent can do restricted things.

So, my question for you is how do you keep track of the things that are messing with your data?