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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 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.
Accessing the News configuration file
To make configuration changes to the News component in IBM® Connections, you must first access the News configuration file.
Applying property changes in the News repository
After making changes to News configuration settings, you must check in the configuration settings and restart the server to apply the changes.

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.
  - 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.
    - Accessing the News configuration file
      To make configuration changes to the News component in IBM® Connections, you must first access the News configuration file.
      - Applying property changes in the News repository
        After making changes to News configuration settings, you must check in the configuration settings and restart the server to apply the changes.
    - News administrative commands
      Use the commands listed to administer the News repository.
    - Synchronizing News data with other applications
      Edit settings in the news-config.xml file to define the interval at which data from the IBM® Connections applications is synchronized with the News repository.
    - Managing scheduled tasks for the News repository
      Use administrative commands to manage scheduled tasks for the News repository.
    - Configuring database clean-up for the News repository
      Edit settings in the news-config.xml file to define the interval at which the different database clean-up tasks run and specify when the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server scheduler starts the tasks.
    - Reallocating and load balancing users according to mail domain
      Use the NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest() command to manually reallocate and load balance users in the different email tranches (or groups of email addresses) used by the email digest.
    - Purging compromised reply-to IDs
      Use the NewsMailinService commands to delete compromised reply-to IDs from the system and ensure that replies are received from secure IDs only. If a particular reply to ID is being misused, you can delete that ID from the system while keeping the user’s other valid IDs active.
    - Registering third-party applications
      Use the NewsActivityStreamService commands to register third-party applications. An application in this context is an OpenSocial gadget that is compatible with IBM® Connections.
    - Administering microblogs
      You can perform a number of administrative tasks to manage the microblogging feature in IBM® Connections.
    - Activity stream search
      The activity stream search service provides an indexing and search infrastructure that is bundled with the News application. This service provides search capabilities over the activity stream.
  - 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™.

Applying property changes in the News repository

After making changes to News configuration settings, you must check in the configuration settings and restart the server to apply the changes.

Before you begin

You must perform the check-in during the same wsadmin session in which you checked out the files for the changes that you made to take effect.

Procedure

Complete your configuration changes.
Check in the changed configuration property keys using the following wsadmin client command:
NewsCellConfig.checkInConfig()
Update the value of the version stamp configuration property in the LotusConnections-config.xml file to force users' browsers to pick up this change. See Required post-customization step for more details.
To exit the wsadmin client, type exit at the prompt.
Use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console to stop and restart the server hosting the News application.

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