You can add IBM® 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 IBM® Connections
nodes to an existing Communities catalog, you must be sure that you
disable scheduled metadata collections.
Procedure
- Log in to IBM® 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 .