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Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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 common areas
Administer the common areas of HCL Connections.
System maintenance
Make sure HCL Connections works properly in your particular environment.
Scheduling tasks
The Activities, Communities, Files, Forums, News, Search, and Wikis applications use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server scheduling service for performing regular tasks. You can use wsadmin commands to change the schedule by which a task runs or to disable a scheduled task altogether.
Examples of scheduler values
Use the examples provided here to construct your own Cron calendar scheduler values or copy and paste these values into your wsadmin commands to reuse them.

Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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
  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 HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing Connections
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  HCL Connections 7.0 now supports the latest Component Pack based in Harbor, an open-source container and Helm registry hosted by HCL for the Component Pack build. Deployments that are new or carrying Component Pack 7 will use this approach for a simplified installation/upgrade process, while releases prior to 7.0 will first need to upgrade to Component Pack 7 using a zip file and a local Docker registry.
- Post-installation tasks
  After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
- Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
  The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for HCL Connections™. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
- Optional post-installation tasks
  Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- Uninstalling
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Upgrading and updating
  Upgrade HCL Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or cumulative fixes. Refer to the What's New in HCL Connections to review the features in the latest release and gather download links or links to the latest fix list and update strategy information.
- 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 HCL Connections.
    - Administrator checklist
      Consider tasks that you might want to complete after you install HCL Connections and before users start using it.
    - Administration tools
      Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
    - System maintenance
      Make sure HCL Connections works properly in your particular environment.
      - Changing WebSphere® Application Server environment variables
        The directory paths to HCL Connections application data and other resources are given associated WebSphere® Application Server environment variables. If you change default paths in your environment, you must update the variables.
      - Changing the name of the session cookie ID
        The session cookie ID for HCL Connections is named JSESSIONID by default. Other products hosted by the WebSphere® Application Server often use the same name for their session cookie. If IBM® HTTP Server is hosting multiple web servers, you might want to change the cookie name of one of them to prevent the cookie from being lost when the user is redirected from one product to another.
      - Scheduling tasks
        The Activities, Communities, Files, Forums, News, Search, and Wikis applications use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server scheduling service for performing regular tasks. You can use wsadmin commands to change the schedule by which a task runs or to disable a scheduled task altogether.
        Examples of scheduler values
        Use the examples provided here to construct your own Cron calendar scheduler values or copy and paste these values into your wsadmin commands to reuse them.
        Clearing all scheduled tasks
        Use administrative commands to clear the scheduler of all tasks.
      - Maintaining application databases
        Each HCL Connections application stores data in a database, and some also store data on a file system. You must back up these databases and file systems on a regular schedule using the methods documented by the vendor from whom you purchased the database and file system that you are using.
      - Removing nodes from a cluster
        You can remove IBM® WebSphere® Administration Server nodes from a cluster using the Integrated Solutions Console or using a command.
      - Backing up and restoring data
        You must back up both the application databases and content stores on a regular schedule using the methods documented by the vendor from whom you purchased the database and file system you are using.
    - Managing content
      Use superusers, moderation, and other methods to manage HCL Connections content.
    - Administering the Widget container
      The Widget Container is the HCL Connections-specific integration of the Common Rendering Engine, also known as the CRE.
    - Managing access
      Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to HCL Connections data.
    - Managing external user access
      Manage the access that people from outside your organization (external users) have to your HCL Connections implementation.
    - Customizing the deployment
      Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
    - URL Preview
      URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.
- Customizing
  Customize HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL 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 HCL products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your HCL products, including HCL Connections™.

Examples of scheduler values

Use the examples provided here to construct your own Cron calendar scheduler values or copy and paste these values into your wsadmin commands to reuse them.

Scheduler values

*/30 * * * * ?: Every 30 seconds
0 */5 * * * ?: Every 5 minutes starting at midnight. Be very sure to specify ‘0' for seconds
0 0 * * * ?: Every hour
0 0 * ? * *: Every hour on the hour
0 50 * * * ?: Every hour at 50 minutes past the hour
0 15 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 ?: Every hour at 15 minutes past the hour
0 0 0-22/2 * *: Every other hour starting at midnight.
0 0 4/5 * * ?: Every 5 hours starting at 4 AM. This would run at 4:00, 9:00, 14:00, and 20:00.
0 0 0,8,16 * * ?: Midnight, 8 AM, and 4 PM every day
0 0 11 * * ?: Every day at 11 AM
0 0 0 * * ?: Every day at midnight
0 0 2 ? * *: Every day at 2 AM
0 0 12 ? * MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI: Weekdays at noon. MON and so on represent the days of the week.
0 0 23 ? * 2-6: Monday through Friday at 11 PM
0 0 21 ? * 2-6/2: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 PM
0 30 18 ? * SAT,SUN: Weekend days at 6:30 PM
0 0 2 ? * SUN: Weekly on Sundays at 2:00 AM
0 0 23 ? * SAT: Weekly on Sat at 11 PM
0 0 * 1 * ?: Every hour on the first day of every month
0 1 0 L * ?: Last day of every month at 00:01 AM
0 59 23 L * ?: Every month on last day at 11:59 PM
0 0 22 1 * ?: First day of every month at 10 PM
0 45 15 2 1,4,7,10 ?: Quarterly on the 2nd day of the month (January, April, July, October) at 3:45 PM
0 45 15 2 */3 ?: Quarterly on the 2nd day of the month (January, April, July, October) at 3:45 PM
0 45 15 2 1 ? | 0 45 15 2 4 ? | 0 45 15 2 7 ? | 0 45 15 2 10 ?: Quarterly on the 2nd day of the month (January, April, July, October) at 3:45 PM
0 30 3 1 1,7 ?: January 1 and July 1 at 3:30 AM
0 30 3 2 1 ? | 0 30 3 1 7 ?: January 2 and July 1 at 3:30 AM
0 0 0 4 7 ?: Once a year at midnight on the 4th of July
0 30 9 4 7 ?: Once a year at 9:30 AM on the 4th of July
0 45 15 2 1 ?: Once a year on January 2 at 3:45 PM