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Administering Connections 7.0
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.
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 Activities
Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
Changing Activities configuration property values
Configuration settings control how and when various Activities operations take place. You can edit the settings to change the ways that activities behave.
Monitoring statistics and metrics
Use the Activities statistics gathering application to monitor operations, product usage, and to make configuration adjustments when necessary.

Administering Connections 7.0
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 Connections
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  HCL Connections 7.0 now supports the latest Component Pack based in Harbor, an open-source container and Helm registry hosted by HCL for the Component Pack build. Deployments that are new or carrying Component Pack 7 will use this approach for a simplified installation/upgrade process, while releases prior to 7.0 will first need to upgrade to Component Pack 7 using a zip file and a local Docker registry.
- Post-installation tasks
  After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
- 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.
- Optional post-installation tasks
  Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- Uninstalling
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Upgrading and updating
  Upgrade HCL Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or cumulative fixes. Refer to the What's New in HCL Connections to review the features in the latest release and gather download links or links to the latest fix list and update strategy information.
- 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.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
    - Changing Activities configuration property values
      Configuration settings control how and when various Activities operations take place. You can edit the settings to change the ways that activities behave.
      - Checking out the Activities configuration files
        You can edit the Activities configuration files in two ways: by using the wsadmin client or by editing the configuration XML files directly. In both cases, you must first check out the configuration files and later check them back in using the wsadmin client.
      - Activities configuration properties
        Edit Activities configuration properties to change the default behavior of the activities that are created by your users.
      - Applying property changes in Activities
        After you have edited the Activities configuration properties, check the changed configuration file in, and restart the servers to apply the changes.
      - Managing uploaded files
        There are many ways to include files in an activity. Files can be uploaded and stored in an activity. To avoid uploading files into an activity, add a link in the activity that points to a file stored in a Linked Library or Files. You can also limit the maximum size of files that can be uploaded, add a content store to an activity, or move a content store.
      - Completing activities that are not being used
        Activities are moved to the Completed view for two reasons, inactivity and the passing of a Due Date. The following help is about how to configure an inactive Activity.
      - Emptying the Activities trash on a schedule
        Edit configuration property settings to set up a schedule on which to permanently delete the activities and entries that have been moved to the Trash view.
      - Monitoring statistics and metrics
        Use the Activities statistics gathering application to monitor operations, product usage, and to make configuration adjustments when necessary.
        Activity statistics
        Activities provides a variety of statistics that you can use to monitor operations and make configuration adjustments when necessary.
        Defining which statistics to collect
        Edit configuration property settings to define the statistics that are collected by the server.
        Scheduling Activities statistics collection
        Edit configuration property settings to change the frequency and duration of the jobs that collect server statistics.
      - Purging the Activities log
        By default, the Activities events log is purged daily at 2 AM. By modifying the EventLogPurgeJob task, you can specify the time that the log is purged and set the properties that define which entries can be deleted. Deleting old events helps maintain performance and keeps the log from becoming too large. Limiting the size of the event log table limits the database storage needed.
      - Managing Activity filters
        Edit configuration property settings to filter out Community activities from My activities in the main navigation panel of the Overview page.
    - Running Activities administrative commands
      Use administrative commands to perform tasks that manipulate Activities content.
    - Backing up Activities data
      Activities stores data in both a database and the file system. You should backup both sets of data on a regular basis.
    - Restoring Activities data
      You can restore Activities data to a previously backed up version.
  - 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 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 HCL products, including HCL Connections™.

Monitoring statistics and metrics

Use the Activities statistics gathering application to monitor operations, product usage, and to make configuration adjustments when necessary.

About this task

Activities enables you to monitor statistics in the following ways:

Edit configuration settings to change the schedule on which statistics are collected and to define which statistics are collected.
Retrieve statistics from a spreadsheet or by using administrative commands.
Retrieve statistics from a web page.