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Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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 common areas
Administer the common areas of HCL Connections.
Administration tools
Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
Changing common configuration property values
Configuration settings control how and when various common operations take place. You can edit the settings to change how HCL Connections behaves.
Applying common configuration property changes
Check in and check out configuration files.

Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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
  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 HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Uninstalling HCL Connections
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate HCL Connections™ and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest deployment, 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 HCL Connections.
    - Administrator checklist
      Consider tasks that you might want to complete after you install HCL Connections and before users start using it.
    - Administration tools
      Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
      - Starting the wsadmin client
        Use the wsadmin client to make configuration changes to applications.
      - Editing configuration files
        You can edit configuration files either by using the wsadmin client or by editing the files directly.
      - Changing common configuration property values
        Configuration settings control how and when various common operations take place. You can edit the settings to change how HCL Connections behaves.
        Common configuration properties
        Common configuration properties for HCL Connections are stored in the LotusConnections-config.xml file. The properties are represented as XML elements.
        Applying common configuration property changes
        Check in and check out configuration files.
      - Running administrative commands
        Use administrative commands to run tasks on the server.
      - Starting or stopping Connections applications
        HCL Connections applications, such as Files, are WebSphere® Enterprise Applications. Start or stop them in the WebSphere Integrated Solutions console as you would any other WebSphere application.
    - System maintenance
      Make sure HCL Connections works properly in your particular environment.
    - Managing content
      Use superusers, moderation, and other methods to manage HCL Connections content.
    - Administering the Widget container
      The Widget Container is the HCL Connections-specific integration of the Common Rendering Engine, also known as the CRE.
    - Managing access
      Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to HCL Connections data.
    - Managing external user access
      Manage the access that people from outside your organization (external users) have to your HCL Connections implementation.
    - Customizing the deployment
      Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
    - URL Preview
      URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.
  - 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
    Administer metrics in HCL Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
  - 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 HCL Connections applications. Search is a required application for all HCL 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 HCL Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL 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 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 HCL Connections™.

Applying common configuration property changes

Check in and check out configuration files.

Before you begin

You must check in configuration files during the same wsadmin session in which you checked out the files. Otherwise, the changes that you made might not take effect.

About this task

After you edit configuration properties for an HCL Connections application, check in the changed configuration file and restart the servers to apply the changes.

Procedure

Open a command window and start the wsadmin command-line tool as described in the topic, Starting the wsadmin client.
Optional: If you want to confirm the changes that you made before checking in the configuration files, you can list the configuration settings and values by using the following command:
```
LCConfigService.showConfig()
```
Update the value of the version stamp configuration property to force users' browsers to pick up this change. Enter the following command to increment the value of the versionStamp property:
Note: This command is required only when a change is made to the product user interface and the change is to a file checked out using LCConfigService.
LCConfigService.updateConfig("versionStamp","gmt_timestamp") where gmt_timestamp is the GMT time. You can specify an empty string for the time stamp or provide a GMT value string. When you specify an empty string, the client calculates the current GMT time and updates the version stamp with that value. If you choose to provide the time, specify it using the following format: yyyyMMdd.HHmmss and specify the time in GMT. It is best to provide an empty string and let the client format the time stamp. For example: LCConfigService.updateConfig("versionStamp","").
For more information, see the Post-customization step topic.
To check in the updated configuration property files, use the following command:
```
LCConfigService.checkInConfig()
```
After you complete your updates, type the following command to deploy the changes:
```
synchAllNodes()
```
To exit the wsadmin client, type exit at the prompt.
Stop and restart all of the HCL Connections application servers.

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