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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL 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.
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.
Administering Metrics for Cognos
Administer metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
Backing up and restoring Metrics data
You can back up the PowerCube’s data on a monthly basis, or you can back up the entire Metrics database history. It is easier to back up a single month’s worth of PowerCube data than to back up the entire Metrics database history, but backing up the database allows you to rebuild the entire PowerCube if needed.
Backing up and restoring sub-PowerCubes
Each month, one sub-PowerCube is generated containing data for the past month. These sub-PowerCubes are stored on the disk as files that you can use for backing up and restoring a month’s worth of data in the PowerCube.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL 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.
- What's new in HCL Connections 6
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- 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.
  - Administering common areas
    Administer the common areas of IBM® Connections.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
  - Administering Blogs
    Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Bookmarks
    You configure and administer Bookmarks using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to Bookmarks configuration settings require a restart of the Bookmarks server before they take effect. Changes made using administrative commands take effect immediately.
  - Administering Communities
    Configure and administer Communities using scripts accessed using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
  - Administering Files
    You administer Files using the wsadmin client to specify properties in a configuration file, or run administrative commands.
  - Administering Forums
    Administer Forums by specifying properties in a configuration file or running administrative commands.
  - Administering the Home page
    You can administer site-wide settings for the Home page from the Home page administration user interface or using the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Libraries
    A Library provides the services of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to Communities. To enable the use of Libraries, you must make some configuration changes to Connections and to each ECM system that you plan to use.
  - Administering Metrics for Cognos
    Administer metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
    - What are metrics?
      The Metrics application in IBM® Connections provides a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative metrics that help measure the business value of IBM Connections in your organization.
    - Managing the Metrics environment
      You can manage the Metrics environment by modifying configuration settings and running administrative commands that determine how Metrics data is collected and reported.
    - Updating a Cognos deployment
      If you need to refresh an IBM Cognos deployment with the latest fixes, you can use either scripts or an update wizard.
    - Backing up and restoring Metrics data
      You can back up the PowerCube’s data on a monthly basis, or you can back up the entire Metrics database history. It is easier to back up a single month’s worth of PowerCube data than to back up the entire Metrics database history, but backing up the database allows you to rebuild the entire PowerCube if needed.
      - Backing up and restoring sub-PowerCubes
        Each month, one sub-PowerCube is generated containing data for the past month. These sub-PowerCubes are stored on the disk as files that you can use for backing up and restoring a month’s worth of data in the PowerCube.
      - Backing up the Metrics database
        The Metrics database contains the raw data that is used to generate the PowerCube. Backing up the Metrics database on a regular basis ensures that you can rebuild the PowerCube in the event of a failure.
      - Restoring the entire Metrics database and PowerCube
        The Metrics database contains the raw data that is used to generate the PowerCube. Backing up the Metrics database on a regular basis ensures that you can rebuild the PowerCube in the event of a failure.
      - Restoring the Metrics database and PowerCube incrementally
        If you have limited disk space, you can restore both the Metrics database and the PowerCube in increments.
  - Administering the News repository
    You administer the News repository using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to News configuration settings require node synchronization and a restart of the Home page server before they take effect.
  - Administering Profiles
    Profiles provides two types of administrative capabilities: configuration settings and administrative commands. You change configuration settings and execute administrative commands by running scripts from the wsadmin command line.
  - Administering Search
    The Search service provides a point for performing full text and tag searches across all the deployed IBM® Connections applications. Search is a required application for all IBM Connections applications, and it must be running to prevent unexpected behaviors in the other applications.
  - Administering Wikis
    Configure and administer Wikis by using the wsadmin client to run administrative commands or by editing the configuration file directly.
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    Monitor the services for Component Pack for IBM Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- 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.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® 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 HCL Connections™.

Backing up and restoring sub-PowerCubes

Each month, one sub-PowerCube is generated containing data for the past month. These sub-PowerCubes are stored on the disk as files that you can use for backing up and restoring a month’s worth of data in the PowerCube.

About this task

Backing up a sub-PowerCube only preserves one month’s data at a time. Rebuilding a PowerCube requires a full restore from the raw Metrics database. For information on restoring an entire PowerCube, see Restoring the entire Metrics database and PowerCube or Restoring the Metrics database and PowerCube incrementally.

Procedure

To back up a month’s worth of PowerCube data, copy the previous month’s sub-PowerCube file to a different server:
Back up the most recent sub-PowerCube that contains data for an entire month; do not back up the current month’s data because it is incomplete.
1. On the server hosting the IBM® Cognos® Transformer component, navigate to the Powercube_save_path/MetricsTrxCube directory, which is where sub-PowerCube files for each month are stored.
  The Powercube_save_path is the value of the cognos.cube.path property specified in the cognos-setup.properties file.
2. Copy the sub-PowerCube for the previous month to the backup location.
To restore a PowerCube, copy the backed-up version of the sub-PowerCube back to the original server:
1. On the server storing the backup files, navigate to the location of the saved PowerCube file and copy the most recent month’s backup file.
2. On the server hosting the IBM® Cognos® Transformer component, copy the retrieved file to the Powercube_save_path/MetricsTrxCube directory.
3. Either wait for the scheduled cube refresh job to run, or run it manually.
  After the cube refresh job finishes, the changes are updated to the Cognos® server.

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