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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.
Uninstalling
Uninstall HCL Connections.
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
The Component Pack for HCL Connections introduces several offerings that enhance collaboration and boost productivity. Read on to understand the offerings, what resources Component Pack requires, some sizing considerations for Kubernetes, information on automating installation or upgrade, and sample steps for installation or upgrade.
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.
Removing applications
Remove selected applications from HCL Connections.
Uninstalling a deployment
Uninstall a deployment of
HCL Connections™
.
Uninstalling in console mode
Uninstall HCL Connections in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not want to use the graphical mode.
Uninstalling in silent mode
Uninstalling: delete databases with the database wizard
Use the database wizard to delete databases.
Uninstalling databases in silent mode
Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.
Uninstalling: Manually drop databases
After uninstalling an HCL Connections application, you can drop any related databases by using the database wizard or by following this manual procedure.
Reverting Common, Connections-proxy, and WidgetContainer applications for Uninstallation
The HCL Connections Installation Manager program requires that you revert the Common and WidgetContainer applications the News cluster for uninstallation if you previously separated those applications to their own clusters.
Uninstalling Cognos® Business Intelligence server
You uninstall Cognos® by uninstalling the Cognos® Business Intelligence server and Cognos® Transformer and removing the powercube refresh scheduler .
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.
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™
.
Uninstalling
Uninstall HCL Connections.
Removing applications
Remove selected applications from HCL Connections.
Uninstalling a deployment
Uninstall a deployment of
HCL Connections™
.
Uninstalling in console mode
Uninstall HCL Connections in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not want to use the graphical mode.
Uninstalling in silent mode
Uninstalling: delete databases with the database wizard
Use the database wizard to delete databases.
Uninstalling databases in silent mode
Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.
Uninstalling: Manually drop databases
After uninstalling an HCL Connections application, you can drop any related databases by using the database wizard or by following this manual procedure.
Reverting Common, Connections-proxy, and WidgetContainer applications for Uninstallation
The HCL Connections Installation Manager program requires that you revert the Common and WidgetContainer applications the News cluster for uninstallation if you previously separated those applications to their own clusters.
Uninstalling Cognos Business Intelligence server
You uninstall Cognos® by uninstalling the Cognos® Business Intelligence server and Cognos® Transformer and removing the powercube refresh scheduler .
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