You can add HCL Connections
nodes to an existing catalog in Communities. Whenever the main node
stops operating, another node can automatically start collecting data.
About this task
When you add HCL Connections
nodes to an existing Communities catalog, you must be sure that you
disable scheduled metadata collections.
Procedure
- Log in to HCL Connections
as catalog administrator. See Configuring the Communities catalog
administrator for information about how to configure this role.
- Go to Communities and select Administration from
the navigation sidebar.
- Disable source metadata collection by selecting . This action stops future collections but does not
delete existing metadata from the index.
- Copy the catalog index folder from an existing node to
the new node by following these steps:
- Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console and click .
- Click cluster_name,
where cluster_name is the name of the catalog cluster.
- In the Additional Properties area, expand Cluster
members and then click Details.
- In the table of cluster members, make a note of the
nodes that host the cluster members.
-
Copy the catalog index folder from an existing node to the new node. The catalog index folder
to copy is pointed to by the CATALOG_INDEX_DIR variable. For more information,
see Configuring Communities catalog settings.
The following path is an example only and might be different on your operating system:
- AIX® or Linux™:
/opt/IBM/Connections/DataLocal/catalog/index/Places
- Windows™:
C:\IBM\Connections\data\local\catalog\index\places
- To enable source metadata collection, select .