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Administering Connections V5.5Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation. IBM 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.
AdministeringRun 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.
Disabling widgetsYou can disable widgets from displaying on the Home page or elsewhere in IBM® Connections when you no longer want them to be available to your users.
Editing widgetsEdit a widget to change its name, description, or deployment descriptor.
Removing widgetsIf a third-party widget is no longer used or needed, you can remove it from the widget catalog. You cannot remove IBM® Connections widgets from the catalog, you can only disable them.
Administering ProfilesProfiles 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.
Developing custom Tivoli® Directory Integrator assembly lines for ProfilesYou can use IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator connectors to develop custom assembly-line scripts when you need to provide a specific type of function.
Using a custom source repository connectorBy creating custom source repository connectors, you can integrate data from non-LDAP sources when you are populating Profiles with user data.

Using a custom source repository connector

By creating custom source repository connectors, you can integrate data from non-LDAP sources when you are populating Profiles with user data.

To integrate a custom source repository, create custom versions of the following two assembly lines and package them as IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator adapters:

Iterator connector: This adapter iterates sequentially through all the users in your user directory. It is used by a number of iterative Tivoli Directory Integrator scripts. For example, it is used to retrieve the full information for initial data population using the collect_dns script and during data synchronization using the sync_all_dns script.
Lookup connector: This adapter looks up individual users in your user directory. It is used by the populate_from_dns_file script.

For more information about using adapters, see the Tivoli Directory Integrator product documentation referenceguide149.htm%23adapters.

After packaging your assembly lines, you can use them in your TDI solution by copying the file you published, such as the adapter.xml file, into the packages Profiles TDI solution directory.

Add a reference to the profiles property store to your adapter files by running the fixup_tdi_adapters.sh or fixup_tdi_adapters.bat command. This reference is required to use the Profiles Tivoli Directory Integrator adapter. Even if you do not believe that your adapter file requires access to the profiles property store, there is no penalty for adding the reference so it is strongly advised that you run this command regardless.

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