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HCL Connections Documentation
Administering Connections 6.5 CR1
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Administering Connections 6.5 CR1
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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
HCL Connections™
, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Configuring additional HCL Connections applications
You must perform additional tasks to enable HCL Connections for the Orient Me home page, the Touchpoint interactive user experience, Community Libraries, Community Surveys, Metrics applications, and more.
Optional: Installing the Component Pack for Connections™
The Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
introduces new connectivity capabilities that enhance collaboration and boost productivity.
Integrating third-party applications: Activities Plus
Activities Plus is the first third-party application integrated with Component Pack. Activities Plus is the team collaboration tool (replacement of Connections Activities) that makes work easier and more intuitive.
Configuring Activities Plus services
Administering Connections 6.5 CR1
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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.
The installation process
Review the steps that are required to install HCL Connections.
Pre-installation tasks
Complete the following tasks before installing HCL Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of HCL Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
Installing HCL Connections
Select the HCL 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.
Registering custom widgets
Register all custom and third-party widgets starting with HCL Connections™ 6 CR1 \IFR1 to ensure they meet security requirements and can display in communities.
Reviewing the JVM heap size
Review the size of the Java™ Virtual Machine heap and adjust it, if necessary, to avoid out-of-memory errors or to suit your hardware capabilities.
Configuring IBM® HTTP Server
When you have successfully installed
HCL Connections™
to run on WebSphere® Application Server, you can configure IBM® HTTP Server to handle web traffic.
Configuring the Home page administrator
Create an administrator for Home page so that you can make changes to the application such as adding and removing widgets.
Configuring additional HCL Connections applications
You must perform additional tasks to enable HCL Connections for the Orient Me home page, the Touchpoint interactive user experience, Community Libraries, Community Surveys, Metrics applications, and more.
Optional: Installing the Component Pack for Connections™
The Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
introduces new connectivity capabilities that enhance collaboration and boost productivity.
Component Pack overview
Review the underlying architecture and technologies used by the Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
.
Prerequisites for Component Pack
Component Pack for HCL Connections uses different technologies from Connections and requires additional software.
Installing and upgrading Component Pack
Perform a fresh installation, upgrade an existing deployment of Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
, troubleshoot the installation or upgrade process, or uninstall the Component Pack.
Configuring the Component Pack
Configure the offerings and related components in the Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
.
Customizing email notifications using the app registry
If Component Pack for
HCL Connections™
is installed in your deployment, you can use the app registry to change the look and content email notifications and newsletters, making them particular to your organization.
Integrating third-party applications: Activities Plus
Activities Plus is the first third-party application integrated with Component Pack. Activities Plus is the team collaboration tool (replacement of Connections Activities) that makes work easier and more intuitive.
Pre-installation tasks
You must complete the following tasks before installing Activities Plus services for Connections Component Pack.
Installing Activities Plus services
Activities Plus in Connections Component Pack (CP) uses the existing Component Pack infrastructure, assuming that you have a working Connections Component Pack environment.
Configuring Activities Plus services
Configuring IBM HTTP Server as reverse proxy
Configure the Activities Plus service to support IBM HTTP Server as a reverse proxy.
Registering an OAuth application with a provider
Register OAuth - In order for Actitivites Plus to authenticate with your Connections environment, you must define a new OAuth widget.
Configuring Connections Mobile for Activities Plus
Add the Activities Plus mobile app to the HCL Connections Mobile application.
Migrating Activities data
If you want to move existing Activities data to Activities Plus, you must run the migration service.
Customizing Activities Plus
Uninstalling Activities Plus
If necessary, you can remove the Activities Plus app from your Connections deployment.
Setting up stand-alone Elasticsearch
Deploy Elasticsearch as a stand-alone server for use with
HCL Connections™
, instead of deploying it as part of the Component Pack for Connections.
Setting up type-ahead search
Enable type-ahead search in
HCL Connections™
to suggest items in the search box based on content that is relevant to each user.
Installing Customizer Lite
This topic describes how to install Customizer Lite. There are two deployment options, hereby referred to as Customizer Lite and Customizer Lite HA. Customizer Lite – the most basic deployment using a single Docker node running a single instance of each required service and Customizer Lite HA – a more resilient deployment using a pair (or more) of Docker nodes all running instances of each required service with requests load balanced across available nodes.
Configuring Connections Content Manager for Libraries
If you installed the Connections Content Manager add-on, you must configure FileNet® to work with Connections Content Manager. Choose the instructions that match your deployment: either an existing FileNet® deployment, which you installed independently before you installed HCL Connections or a new, integrated FileNet® deployment that is part of a new HCL Connections installation.
Optional: Configuring HCL Connections Docs with CCM
You can enable community members to edit files in Community libraries online if you have already installed HCL Connections Docs.
Installing Community Surveys
If you want to be able to conduct surveys within Communities to capture data and share it easily with your community in an activity stream, enable Community Surveys.
Optional: Installing and configuring
Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for
HCL Connections™
. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
Copying Search conversion tools to local nodes for AIX and Linux
To enable full indexing of data, copy the Search conversion tools to local nodes.
Copying Search conversion tools to local nodes for Windows
To enable full indexing of data, copy the Search conversion tools to local nodes.
Optional post-installation tasks
Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
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.
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™
.
Configuring Activities Plus services
Configuring IBM HTTP Server as reverse proxy
Configure the Activities Plus service to support IBM HTTP Server as a reverse proxy.
Registering an OAuth application with a provider
Register OAuth - In order for Actitivites Plus to authenticate with your Connections environment, you must define a new OAuth widget.
Configuring Connections Mobile for Activities Plus
Add the Activities Plus mobile app to the HCL Connections Mobile application.
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