The Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway provides the interface between Lotus Notes and Enterprise Vault. Although archiving does not use the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway, actions on archived data, such as opening, restoring, deleting and searching, are handled by the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway.

Figure: Archiving an item illustrates the process when archiving an item from a Domino mail file.

Figure: Retrieving or restoring an archived item illustrates the process when viewing or restoring an archived item.

Enterprise Vault Extension Manager, which Enterprise Vault installs on the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway provides the main functionality of the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway. Enterprise Vault Extension Manager is a server-side extension that processes requests from Lotus Notes and DWA clients and passes them on to Enterprise Vault. In order for the extension manager to have unrestricted access to Enterprise Vault data, the Domino server must run under the Vault Service account.