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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.
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).
Migrating to IBM® Connections 6.0
Migrate an installation of HCL Connections™ 5.0 or 5.5 to Connections 6.0. For any version of Connections before version 5.0, you must migrate to version 5.0 before you migrate to version 6.0.
Installing HCL Connections 6
Install HCL Connections.
Content store migration
Migrate your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores to your HCL Connections™ 6.0 deployment.
Reusing content stores
Reuse your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores in your HCL Connections™ 6.0 deployment.

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).
  - Getting ready for migrating or updating
    Take steps to inform users and protect data before starting an IBM® Connections migration or update.
  - Migrating to IBM® Connections 6.0
    Migrate an installation of HCL Connections™ 5.0 or 5.5 to Connections 6.0. For any version of Connections before version 5.0, you must migrate to version 5.0 before you migrate to version 6.0.
    - Exporting application artifacts from IBM® Connections 5.0 or 5.5
      Export application artifacts, such as configuration data, from your HCL Connections™ 5.0 or 5.5 deployment.
    - Migrating data from IBM® Connections 5.0 or 5.5 databases to 6.0
      Migrate data from your HCL Connections™ 5.0 or 5.5 databases and update the schemas to the most recent IBM® Connections 6.0 level.
    - Uninstalling a deployment before migration
      If you migrate HCL Connections™ using the same hardware that you used for the previous release, known as an in-place migration, you must uninstall the earlier version of Connections before you migrate to the new release. You must also uninstall the Cognos® Business Intelligence server if it is installed. If you are migrating to Connections 6.0 side-by-side with your current deployment, you do not need to complete this task.
    - Before installing
      Verify that all necessary prerequisite conditions are complete before installing IBM® Connections.
    - Installing HCL Connections 6
      Install HCL Connections.
      - Content store migration
        Migrate your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores to your HCL Connections™ 6.0 deployment.
        Reusing content stores
        Reuse your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores in your HCL Connections™ 6.0 deployment.
        Copying content stores
        Copy data from your HCL Connections™ 50. or 5.5 content stores to your 6.0 deployment.
        Optional: Changing the location on disk used to store library content
        If the system path used to access the shared content directory is changed for any reason, the IBM® FileNet® configuration needs to be updated.
    - Importing application artifacts to IBM® Connections 6.0
      Import application artifacts, including configuration data and properties files, into your new deployment.
    - Migrating Cognos® Business Intelligence
      Use a new content store to migrate Cognos® Business Intelligence for HCL Connections™ from 5.0 or 5.5 to 6.0.
    - Restoring FileNet® components after migrating to IBM® Connections 6.0
      After you migrate to HCL Connections™ 6.0 CR1, update Connections Content Manager and then restore your FileNet® components.
    - Post-migration tasks
      After you migrate to HCL Connections™ 6.0, perform post-migration tasks to ensure that your new deployment is complete.
    - Rolling back a migration
      If a migration fails, you can roll back your environment to the previous one.
  - Updating IBM® Connections 6.0
    Updates to HCL Connections™ 6.0 are delivered as interim fixes or Cumulative Refreshes.
  - Synchronizing nodes
    Synchronize all the nodes in a cluster.
- 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™.

Reusing content stores

Reuse your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores in your HCL Connections™ 6.0 deployment.

About this task

While installing Connections 6.0, you are prompted to specify the locations of the 5.0 or 5.5 content stores. Instead of creating new directories, you can specify the 5.0 or 5.5 content stores so that you can reuse that content in your 6.0 deployment.

Note: You must delete any Search-related data from your 5.0 or 5.5 content stores, such as indexes and statistics. The 6.0 installation generates new Search-related data.

Procedure

Delete the data in content stores that are related to the Search application.

Use the following table as a guide to deleting data that is recreated in the 6.0 deployment:

Table 1. Content stores that must be deleted
Content Store Location
`local_content_store`/news/search/index
`local_content_store`/profiles/cache
`local_content_store`/search/backup
`local_content_store`/search/index
`shared_content_store`/news/search/indexReplication
`shared_content_store`/search/dictionary
`shared_content_store`/search/stellent/dcs/oiexport
`shared_content_store`/provision/webresources/
`shared_content_store`/configuration
`shared_content_store`/messageStores

where shared_content_store is a content store on a shared storage device on a network and local_content_store is content that is stored on your local system.

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