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Administering Connections V5.5
Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation. IBM Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Administering Connections V5.5
Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation. IBM Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Product overview
Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM® Connections social networking product.
Planning
Before installing IBM® Connections, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
What's new
Find out what's new for installing and migrating IBM® Connections.
The installation process
Review the steps that are required to install IBM® Connections.
Pre-installation tasks
Complete the following tasks before installing IBM® Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM® Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
Installing IBM® Connections
Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Uninstalling IBM® Connections
Uninstall IBM® Connections.
Migrating and updating
Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
Administering
Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
Customizing
Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
Security
IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
Mobile
See the
IBM Connections™
Mobile
documentation for
Connections
Cloud and
Connections
on-premises.
Performance
Get recommendations from the IBM Collaboration Solutions Performance team on how to configure IBM® Connections for optimal performance.
Developing
Get information about how to use the APIs provided with Connections.
Troubleshooting and support
To isolate and resolve problems with your HCL products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM® products, including
IBM Connections™
.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
What's new
Find out what's new for installing and migrating IBM Connections.
The installation process
Review the steps that are required to install IBM Connections.
Pre-installation tasks
Complete the following tasks before installing IBM Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
Installing IBM Connections
Select the IBM Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Uninstalling IBM Connections
Uninstall IBM Connections.
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