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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. 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 common areas
Administer the common areas of IBM® Connections.
Administration tools
Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. 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 6
  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 IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- 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 IBM® Connections.
    - Administrator checklist
      Consider tasks that you might want to complete after you install IBM® Connections and before users start using it.
    - Administration tools
      Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
      - Starting the wsadmin client
        Use the wsadmin client to make configuration changes to applications.
      - Editing configuration files
        You can edit configuration files either by using the wsadmin client or by editing the files directly.
      - Changing common configuration property values
        Configuration settings control how and when various common operations take place. You can edit the settings to change how IBM® Connections behaves.
      - Running administrative commands
        Use administrative commands to run tasks on the server.
      - Starting or stopping Connections applications
        IBM® Connections applications, such as Files, are WebSphere® Enterprise Applications. Start or stop them in the WebSphere Integrated Solutions console as you would any other WebSphere application.
    - System maintenance
      Make sure IBM® Connections works properly in your particular environment.
    - Managing content
      Use superusers, moderation, and other methods to manage IBM® Connections content.
    - Administering the Widget container
      The Widget Container is the IBM® Connections-specific integration of the Common Rendering Engine, also known as the CRE.
    - Managing access
      Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to IBM® Connections data.
    - Managing external user access
      Manage the access that people from outside your organization (external users) have to your IBM® Connections implementation.
    - Customizing the deployment
      Perform optional tasks to customize your IBM® Connections deployment.
    - URL Preview
      URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
  - 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 Libraries
    A Library provides the services of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to Communities. To enable the use of Libraries, you must make some configuration changes to Connections and to each ECM system that you plan to use.
  - Administering Metrics for Cognos
    Administer metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
  - 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 IBM® Connections applications. Search is a required application for all IBM 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 IBM Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
- Security
  IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® 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 IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.

Administration tools

Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.

The wsadmin utility is a tool provided with WebSphere® Application Server that you can use to manage applications hosted by the WebSphere® Application Server, including IBM® Connections.

The wsadmin tool runs IBM® Connections script-based commands that you enter into a wsadmin command session. Behind the scenes, these scripts are based on the Jython scripting language, and they invoke WebSphere® Application Server and IBM® Connections commands that do the actual work. These scripts can both change XML-based file values that control an application's configuration and run IBM® Connections-supplied MBean commands, which are grouped into services that perform related tasks, such as managing application membership.

You can change the behavior of IBM® Connections by using the wsadmin client to perform one of the following actions:

Edit configuration properties: These properties control configurable aspects of the applications and are stored in XML-formatted configuration files. When you change these types of properties, you must use scripts that check out the configuration file, make the change, and then check the configuration file back in. After checking in your changes, you must restart the servers for the changes to take effect. In a network deployment, you must also synchronize the nodes to propagate the changes across a cluster.
Run administrative commands: Run administrative commands to invoke MBean commands associated with the product applications. MBeans control the applications that run on the server. When you run an administrative command, you must start the Jython script interpreter, but you do not have to check out any configuration files nor restart the server. Your changes take effect immediately.

For more information about using wsadmin tool scripting, see the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server information center.

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