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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.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Installing IBM® Connections
Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
Installing silently
Silent installation is a tool to simplify the installation process in enterprises that need multiple, identical instances of IBM® Connections.

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.
  - The installation process
    Review the steps that are required to install IBM® Connections.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    Complete the following tasks before installing IBM® Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
  - Installing IBM® Connections
    Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
    - Installing as a non-root user
      Grant permissions to a non-root user to install IBM® Connections.
    - Installing HCL Connections 6
      Install HCL Connections.
    - Installing in console mode
      Install IBM® Connections in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not want to use the graphical mode.
    - Installing silently
      Silent installation is a tool to simplify the installation process in enterprises that need multiple, identical instances of IBM® Connections.
      - Installing IBM® Connections in silent mode (with an existing IBM® Installation Manager)
        Use a silent installation to perform an identical installation of IBM® Connections on multiple systems.
      - Installing IBM® Connections and IBM® Installation Manager in silent mode
        Use a silent installation to perform an identical installation of IBM® Connections and IBM Installation Manager on multiple systems.
      - The default response file
        Response files provide input parameters for silent installations of IBM® Connections.
    - Modifying the installation in interactive mode
      Modify your deployment of IBM® Connections by adding or removing applications.
    - Modifying the installation in silent mode
      Modify your deployment of IBM® Connections by adding or removing applications in silent mode.
    - Modifying the installation in console mode
      Using console mode, modify your deployment of IBM® Connections by adding or removing applications.
  - Post-installation tasks
    After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
  - Uninstalling IBM® Connections
    Uninstall IBM® Connections.
- 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.
- 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™.

Installing silently

Silent installation is a tool to simplify the installation process in enterprises that need multiple, identical instances of IBM® Connections.

Silent installation uses installation parameters in a response file to install identical IBM® Connections profiles on different computers. To specify silent installation parameters you can edit the default response file provided with IBM® Connections, or create a new file.

In addition to silently installing IBM® Connections, you can use the silent installation process to modify, update, or uninstall IBM® Connections.

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