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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.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
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.
Populating the Profiles database
Populate the Profiles database with data from the LDAP directory.
Adding source data to the Profiles database
Populate the Profiles database with information from the source server by using the Profiles population wizard or by populating the database manually.

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.
  - 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.
    - Verifying disk space and open file limits before installing IBM® Connections
      On all operating systems, ensure that you have 6 GB of temporary disk space. On AIX® and Linux™, set the Open File Descriptor limit to at least 40000 before installing IBM® Connections.
    - Preparing to configure the LDAP directory
      Determine which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes you want to use as the identifiers for IBM® Connections users.
    - Creating the Cognos® administrator account
      Create a new user, or select an existing user in the LDAP directory to serve as the administrator of the IBM® Cognos® BI Server component (you will add the administrator credentials to a configuration script when you deploy Cognos Business Intelligence).
    - Installing IBM® Installation Manager for IBM® Connections
      Installation Manager is required for installing IBM® Connections and its prerequisite software.
    - Installing IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and IBM® HTTP Server
      IBM® Connections requires an environment where the WebSphere® Application Server Deployment Manager and one node are installed and configured in advance. IBM HTTP Server and the Web Server Plug-ins for IBM WebSphere Application Server are also prerequisites. This software is provided with the IBM Connections package.
    - Accessing Windows® network shares
      Configure a user account to access network shares in an IBM® Connections deployment on the Microsoft® Windows® operating system
    - Setting up federated repositories
      Use federated repositories with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server to manage and secure user and group identities.
    - Creating databases
      Create databases for the applications that you plan to install. You can use the database wizard or run the SQL scripts that are provided with IBM® Connections.
    - Populating the Profiles database
      Populate the Profiles database with data from the LDAP directory.
      - Configuring IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator
        Configure IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator to synchronize and exchange information between the Profiles database and your LDAP directory.
      - Adding source data to the Profiles database
        Populate the Profiles database with information from the source server by using the Profiles population wizard or by populating the database manually.
        Using the Profiles population wizard
        Use the Profiles population wizard to populate the IBM® Connections Profiles database with data from the LDAP directory.
        Using the Profiles population wizard in silent mode
        You can run the Profiles population wizard in silent mode to populate the Profiles database.
        Manually populating the Profiles database
        Instead of using the Profiles population wizard, you can manually populate the database.
        Mapping fields manually
        To populate the Profiles database with data from the enterprise LDAP directory, map the content of the fields in the database to the fields in the LDAP directory.
        Attribute mapping for Profiles
        When the Profiles directory service is enabled, IBM® Connections relies on the Profiles database to provide user data such as user name, ID, and email.
      - Populating Profiles with photos from LDAP
        You can use the IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator assembly-line command load_photos_from_ldap to load the Profiles database with photos of your users.
      - Configuring the Manager designation in user profiles
        When you map manager data in the Profiles database, you can mark manager profiles and also create report-to chains.
      - Supplemental user data for Profiles
        You can supplement user profiles data using a mapping table, the profiles_tdi.properties file, and CSV files.
      - Specifying the global ID attribute for users and groups
        Decide if you will accept the default identifiers used by your LDAP directory server or create a custom attribute to be used as the global unique identifier (GUID) for each user. This identifier is unique across the organization and is used for synchronizing names in the LDAP directory with names in the Profiles database.
      - Optional: Specifying a custom ID attribute for users or groups
        Add custom global unique ID attributes in the LDAP directory to make user record changes easier to manage and to minimize the possibility of accidentally introducing dual accounts for a user. This is an optional task.
    - Before installing
      Verify that all necessary prerequisite conditions are complete before installing IBM® Connections.
  - 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.
- 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™.

Adding source data to the Profiles database

Populate the Profiles database with information from the source server by using the Profiles population wizard or by populating the database manually.

About this task

The Profiles population wizard provides an interface to make it easier for you to populate the Profiles database with information from your LDAP directory. Alternatively, if you do not want to use the wizard, you can populate the database manually by manually updating the profiles_tdi.properties file in the TDI directory.

Note: Although LDAP is the default source, and the only source supported by the Profiles population wizard, other sources are available if you are manually populating the Profiles database. See Manually populating the Profiles database for more information.

Note: You can create custom TDI connectors to add, update, and synchronize your source data and Profiles database content. See topics such as Developing custom Tivoli Directory Integrator assembly lines for Profiles and Using the ProfileConnector for more information.

Procedure

To populate the Profiles database with information from the LDAP server, do one of the following:

Run the Profiles population wizard on the server where IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator is installed.
Populate the Profiles database manually by updating the property values relevant to your configuration in the profiles_tdi.properties file. For more information, see Manually populating the Profiles database.

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