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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 MetricsAdminister metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
Backing up and restoring Metrics dataYou can back up the PowerCube’s data on a monthly basis, or you can back up the entire Metrics database history. It is easier to back up a single month’s worth of PowerCube data than to back up the entire Metrics database history, but backing up the database allows you to rebuild the entire PowerCube if needed.
Backing up and restoring sub-PowerCubesEach month, one sub-PowerCube is generated containing data for the past month. These sub-PowerCubes are stored on the disk as files that you can use for backing up and restoring a month’s worth of data in the PowerCube.

Backing up and restoring sub-PowerCubes

Each month, one sub-PowerCube is generated containing data for the past month. These sub-PowerCubes are stored on the disk as files that you can use for backing up and restoring a month’s worth of data in the PowerCube.

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Backing up a sub-PowerCube only preserves one month’s data at a time. Rebuilding a PowerCube requires a full restore from the raw Metrics database. For information on restoring an entire PowerCube, see Restoring the entire Metrics database and PowerCube or Restoring the Metrics database and PowerCube incrementally.

Procedure

To back up a month’s worth of PowerCube data, copy the previous month’s sub-PowerCube file to a different server:
Back up the most recent sub-PowerCube that contains data for an entire month; do not back up the current month’s data because it is incomplete.
1. On the server hosting the IBM® Cognos® Transformer component, navigate to the Powercube_save_path/MetricsTrxCube directory, which is where sub-PowerCube files for each month are stored.
  The Powercube_save_path is the value of the cognos.cube.path property specified in the cognos-setup.properties file.
2. Copy the sub-PowerCube for the previous month to the backup location.
To restore a PowerCube, copy the backed-up version of the sub-PowerCube back to the original server:
1. On the server storing the backup files, navigate to the location of the saved PowerCube file and copy the most recent month’s backup file.
2. On the server hosting the IBM Cognos Transformer component, copy the retrieved file to the Powercube_save_path/MetricsTrxCube directory.
3. Either wait for the scheduled cube refresh job to run, or run it manually.
  After the cube refresh job finishes, the changes are updated to the Cognos server.

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