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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.
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™.
Exchanging information with IBM®
To diagnose or identify a problem, you might need to provide IBM® Support with data and information from your system. In other cases, IBM Support might provide you with tools or utilities to use for problem determination.
Sending information to IBM® Support
To reduce the time that it takes to resolve your problem, you can send trace and diagnostic information to IBM® Support.

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.
- 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™.
  - Techniques for troubleshooting problems
    Troubleshooting is a systematic approach to solving a problem. The goal of troubleshooting is to determine why something does not work as expected and how to resolve the problem. Certain common techniques can help with the task of troubleshooting.
  - Getting product fixes
    A product fix might be available to resolve your problem.
  - Searching knowledge bases
    You can often find solutions to problems by searching IBM® knowledge bases. You can optimize your results by using available resources, support tools, and search methods.
  - Contacting IBM® Support
    IBM® Support assists with product defects, answers FAQs, and helps users resolve problems with the product.
  - Exchanging information with IBM®
    To diagnose or identify a problem, you might need to provide IBM® Support with data and information from your system. In other cases, IBM Support might provide you with tools or utilities to use for problem determination.
    - Sending information to IBM® Support
      To reduce the time that it takes to resolve your problem, you can send trace and diagnostic information to IBM® Support.
    - Receiving information from IBM® Support
      Occasionally an IBM® technical-support representative might ask you to download diagnostic tools or other files. You can use FTP to download these files.
  - Subscribing to Support updates
    To stay informed of important information about the IBM® products that you use, you can subscribe to updates.
  - Troubleshooting tips
  - Error message reference
    Use the codes included in the error messages generated by IBM® Connections to identify problems and find their solutions.

Sending information to IBM® Support

To reduce the time that it takes to resolve your problem, you can send trace and diagnostic information to IBM® Support.

Procedure

To submit diagnostic information to IBM® Support:

Open a problem management record (PMR). See Contacting IBM Support for more details.
Manually collect the diagnostic data that you need. Diagnostic data helps reduce the time that it takes to resolve your PMR. See Resolving a problem without Support tools for more details.
Compress the files by using the ZIP or TAR format.
Transfer the files to IBM®. You can use one of the following methods to transfer the files to IBM®:
- The Service Request tool
- Standard data upload methods: FTP, HTTP
- Secure data upload methods: FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS
- Email
All of these data exchange methods are explained on the IBM® Support site.

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