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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 Orient Me feature for stand-alone ElasticsearchIf you are newly deploying Orient Me in Component Pack but already use stand-alone Elasticsearch for Metrics and Type-ahead Search features in your HCL Connections™ deployment, you can configure the stand-alone Elasticsearch instance to also provide Orient Me top updates data.
Enabling Orient Me indexing and retrieval for stand-alone ElasticsearchConfigure the Orient Me indexing and retrieval services for Elasticsearch in your HCL Connections™ deployment.

Enabling Orient Me indexing and retrieval for stand-alone Elasticsearch

Configure the Orient Me indexing and retrieval services for Elasticsearch in your HCL Connections™ deployment.

Procedure

Make sure that you've configured Orient Me settings for SSL in Elasticsearch.

Run the following commands to enable indexing and retrieval to work with Elasticsearch:

helm upgrade orientme extractedFolder/microservices_connections/hybridcloud/helmbuilds/orientme-0.1.0-20190925-103231.tgz \
--set <args_from_initial_install>,\
orient-indexing-service.indexing.solr=false,\
orient-indexing-service.indexing.elasticsearch=true,\
orient-indexing-service.elasticsearch.host=standalone_es_host,\
orient-indexing-service.elasticsearch.port=standalone_es_port,\
orient-retrieval-service.retrieval.elasticsearch=true,\
orient-retrieval-service.elasticsearch.host=standalone_es_host,\
orient-retrieval-service.elasticsearch.port=standalone_es_port

What to do next

Validate the Orient Me configuration by following the steps in Verifying the Orient Me functions on Elasticsearch