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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.
Planning
Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
IBM Connections release notes
The release notes for IBM® Connections explain compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues.

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.
  - Audience
    This Installation Guide assumes that you have prior experience with products that support enterprise web applications.
  - Directory path conventions
    Directory variables are abbreviations for the default installation paths for IBM® AIX®, Linux™, and Microsoft™ Windows™. This topic defines the directory variable and its matching default installation directory for each supported operating system.
  - Deployment options
    Install IBM® Connections in one of three deployment topologies to achieve optimum scaling, load balancing, and failover.
  - Connections system requirements
    A variety of hardware and software is required to run Connections.
  - HCL Connections support statement
    This support statement proposes a revision to the definition of "supported" and "unsupported" with respect to the various products on which Connections 6 depends for proper operation.
  - Worksheet for installing IBM® Connections
    Record your installation and configuration data.
  - IBM Connections release notes
    The release notes for IBM® Connections explain compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues.
- 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.
- 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™.

IBM Connections release notes

The release notes for IBM® Connections explain compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues.

Contents

Announcement
System requirements
Installing IBM Connections
Migrating IBM Connections
Known problems

Announcement

The IBM® Connections announcement notification describes the following information. Additional overview information is available at http://www.ibm.com/software/products/en/conn.

Detailed product description, including a description of new function
Product-positioning statement
Packaging and ordering details
International compatibility information

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the IBM® Connections system requirements topic.

Installing IBM® Connections

For step-by-step installation instructions, refer to the Installing section of the product documentation.

Note: Once mandatory tasks are completed, go to fix central to obtain the latest iFixes and apply them as described in Updating IBM® Connections to ensure the deployment will have the latest set of software fixes.

Migrating IBM Connections

Before migrating to Connections 6, obtain the latest iFixes and apply them as described in Updating IBM® Connections to ensure the deployment will have the latest set of software fixes required for migration.

Known problems

Known problems are documented in the form of individual tech notes in the IBM® Connections.Support Portal. As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM® Support team updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

The following link launches a customized query of the live Support knowledge base: All known problems for IBM Connections 6.0.

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