Configuring IBM Connections Content Manager for Libraries

If you installed the IBM® Connections Content Manager add-on, you must configure FileNet® to work with IBM Connections Content Manager. Choose the instructions that match your deployment: either an existing FileNet deployment, which you installed independently before you installed IBM Connections or a new, integrated FileNet deployment that was part of an IBM Connections 4.5 or 5.0 installation.

This section assumes you have already performed the IBM Connections Content Manager preinstall and installation tasks required for making Libraries available in your Connections implementation.
  • Pre-installation tasks

    If you want to use IBM Connections Content Manager, you must configure Connections and FileNet with the same WebSphere® federated repositories. When IBM Connections is installed, the installer provides a user name and password for a system user account that is created by the installer to handle feature-to-feature communication. The Connections installer also creates a J2C authentication alias name connectionsAdmin. This alias is filled with the specified user and maps that user to a set of application roles.

  • Installing IBM Connections

    The IBM Connections Content Manager deployment option only displays if you chose to install the Connections Content Manager feature during installation.

Configure your FileNet deployment after installation as the following topics describe: