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Administering Connections 6.5 CR1Welcome 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.
InstallingTo install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasksAfter installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Configuring additional HCL Connections applicationsYou 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.
Setting up stand-alone ElasticsearchDeploy Elasticsearch as a stand-alone server for use with HCL Connections™, instead of deploying it as part of the Component Pack for Connections.
Configuring the Metrics feature for stand-alone ElasticsearchConfigure the stand-alone Elasticsearch instance to provide Metrics data for the HCL Connections™ deployment.
Verifying the Metrics functions on the stand-alone Elasticsearch instanceVerify that the Metrics feature based on the stand-alone Elasticsearch instance works properly with the HCL Connections™ deployment.

Verifying the Metrics functions on the stand-alone Elasticsearch instance

Verify that the Metrics feature based on the stand-alone Elasticsearch instance works properly with the HCL Connections™ deployment.

Procedure

Log in to the Metrics UI as a user in the metrics-report-run role that was set as explained in Configuring access to global Elasticsearch Metrics, using the following address: https://your_Connections_server_host_name/metrics/orgapp#/
View a global report and verify that the data displays as "0" and that the Metrics UI looks like the following image.

The data on the UI might show as "0", or other numbers. The key is to verify the UI can show the data correctly, no matter what it is.