Installing Orient Me

Install the Orient Me offering of the Component Pack for HCL Connections.

Before you begin

Before attempting to install Orient Me, verify that the following tasks were successfully completed.

About this task

The following components are deployed as part of the Orient Me offering:

  • community-suggestions
  • orient-indexing-service
  • itm-services
  • mail-service
  • middleware-graphql
  • orient-web-client
  • people-datamigration
  • people-idmapping
  • people-relationship
  • people-scoring
  • orient-retrieval-service
  • solr-basic
  • userprefs-service
  • zookeeper
Note: If you're using Elasticsearch, you won't need Solr.

Procedure

  1. Install the Orient Me Helm chart by running the following command:

    In the command, replace extractedFolder with the location of the directory where you extracted the Component Pack installation package. Replace the value of global.image.repository with the name of your Docker registry.

    • If you do not use ISAM:

      If you do not use IBM® Security Access Manager, run the following command to install the Helm chart.

      helm install \
      --name=orientme extractedFolder/microservices_connections/hybridcloud/helmbuilds/orientme-0.1.0-20190925-103231.tgz
       \
      --set \
      global.onPrem=true,\
      global.image.repository=Docker_registry/connections,\
      orient-web-client.service.nodePort=30001,\
      itm-services.service.nodePort=31100,\
      mail-service.service.nodePort=32721,\
      community-suggestions.service.nodePort=32200

      Include the following settings if you're using Elasticsearch.

      orient-indexing-service.indexing.solr=false,\
      orient-indexing-service.indexing.elasticsearch=true,\
      orient-retrieval-service.retrieval.elasticsearch=true

      (Optional) Add one more Elasticsearch setting if you want to change the default value of 3000. The setting controls how many pages of content can be displayed in Top Updates, and the default reflects a balance between content and performance. A higher value allows more pages to be displayed; a lower value improves performance. The formula for how many stacks are retrieved is (Page #) X (Stacks per page) = (# of stacks).

      orient-retrieval-service.retrieval.esStacksSizeLimit=<your value>
    • If you use ISAM:

      If your deployment uses IBM® Security Access Manager (formerly Tivoli® Access Manager), the installation command includes some additional settings.

      helm install \
      --name=orientme extractedFolder/microservices_connections/hybridcloud/helmbuilds/orientme-0.1.0-20190925-103231.tgz \
      --set \
      global.onPrem=true,\
      global.image.repository=Docker_registry/connections,\
      orient-web-client.service.nodePort=30001,\
      itm-services.service.nodePort=31100,\
      mail-service.service.nodePort=32721,\
      community-suggestions.service.nodePort=32200,\
      orient-web-client.env.validateTokenMatch=false,\
      middleware-graphql.env.validateTokenMatch=false,\
      community-suggestions.env.validateTokenMatch=false,\
      itm-services.env.validateTokenMatch=false,\
      mail-service.env.validateTokenMatch=false

      Include the following settings if you're using Elasticsearch:

      orient-indexing-service.indexing.solr=false,\
      orient-indexing-service.indexing.elasticsearch=true,\
      orient-retrieval-service.retrieval.elasticsearch=true

      (Optional) Add one more Elasticsearch setting if you want to change the default value of 3000. The setting controls how many pages of content can be displayed in Top Updates, and the default reflects a balance between content and performance. A higher value allows more pages to be displayed; a lower value improves performance. The formula for how many stacks are retrieved is (Page #) X (Stacks per page) = (# of stacks).

      
      orient-retrieval-service.retrieval.esStacksSizeLimit=<your value>
    Note: By default, deployment is done to the connections namespace. If you created a namespace with a different name and would like to deploy there, the following extra values must be included in the helm install command:
    community-suggestions.namespace=namespace,\
    orient-indexing-service.namespace=namespace,\
    itm-services.namespace=namespace,\
    mail-service.namespace=namespace,\
    middleware-graphql.namespace=namespace,\
    orient-web-client.namespace=namespace,\
    people-datamigration.namespace=namespace,\
    people-idmapping.namespace=namespace,\
    people-relationship.namespace=namespace,\
    people-scoring.namespace=namespace,\
    orient-retrieval-service.namespace=namespace,\
    solr-basic.namespace=namespace,\
    userprefs-service.namespace=namespace,\
    zookeeper.namespace=namespace
  2. Verify that Orient Me was successfully deployed.
    1. Verify that the installation completed by running the helm list command.

      When the installation completes, the chart's status shows as DEPLOYED.

    2. Then run the following command to check the status of all of the pods.
      In the following example, connections is the name of the namespace:
      kubectl get pods -n connections

      It can take up to 10 minutes for all pods to start.