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Deploying HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2
Welcome to the HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2 documentation, where you can find information about installing and deploying HCL Docs 2.0.2. HCL Docs is a collaborative productivity suite that enables you to work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together in the cloud.
Installing
To install HCL Docs, complete the following procedures in the sequence shown.
Pre-installation tasks
A series of pre-installation tasks must be completed before you can deploy the HCL Docs infrastructure. These tasks include installing the system prerequisites and configuring both Windows™ and Linux™ operating systems.
Installing WebSphere® Application Server
The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server installation consists of two parts: IBM Installation Manager and the WebSphere Application Server itself.

Deploying HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2
Welcome to the HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2 documentation, where you can find information about installing and deploying HCL Docs 2.0.2. HCL Docs is a collaborative productivity suite that enables you to work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together in the cloud.
- Overview
  HCL Connections™ Docs extends HCL Connections, offering real-time, co-editing support designed to help users collaborate on documents together.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Docs, review the system requirements and deployment options, and then complete the worksheets.
- Installing
  To install HCL Docs, complete the following procedures in the sequence shown.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    A series of pre-installation tasks must be completed before you can deploy the HCL Docs infrastructure. These tasks include installing the system prerequisites and configuring both Windows™ and Linux™ operating systems.
    - Install HCL Connections
      Install HCL Connections, including the WebSphere® Deployment Manager at the minimum fix pack level, and create a Connections cell to contain HCL Docs. For details on system compatibility, see the System Requirements.
    - Configuring the operating systems
      Before you install any more applications, you need to make some changes to the operating systems on the servers.
    - Installing Python
      The HCL Docs deployment requires a Python 3 runtime environment. For both Windows and Linux installations, ensure that Python is installed on the Connections Deployment Manager and on all Linux™ servers hosting an File Viewer, HCL Docs, or HCL Docs proxy node.
    - Installing WebSphere® Application Server
      The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server installation consists of two parts: IBM Installation Manager and the WebSphere Application Server itself.
      - Installing the IBM® Installation Manager 1.8.5
        The IBM® Installation Manager is used to install WebSphere® Application Server and the corresponding fix packs.
      - Installing and configuring the WebSphere Application Server
        You must install IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment (Application Server option) for each of these servers: the HCL Docs application server, the HCL Docs proxy, the Conversion server, and the File Viewer server.
      - Configuring HCL Docs profiles
        After the installation of the WebSphere® Application Server, you must create the profile and cluster for each of the HCL Docs components.
      - Creating the Application Clusters
        This section is not needed if you use the GUI Installer to install HCL Docs.
    - Configuring HCL Docs shared storage
      The shared storage for the Editor Server and Document Format Conversion Server uses NFSv3 or CIFS, and the shared storage for the Viewer Server and Document Format Conversion Server uses either NFSv3 or CIFS. Procedures for both the NFS and CIFS cases are provided -- complete the tasks appropriate to your deployment.
    - Preparing the HCL Docs database infrastructure
      HCL Connections™ Docs has dependencies on IBM DB2 or Oracle database products.
    - Removing clusters and servers
      Before you install, check whether any cluster and server names that you want to use already exist, for example, IBMDocsCluster, IBMDocsMember 1,...,n, IBMConversionCluster, IBMConversionMember1,...,n , IBMViewerCluster, IBMViewerMember1,...,n, IBMDocsProxyCluster and IBMDocsProxyMember1,...,n. If they already exist, you must remove them.
    - Installing extra language packs
      For some locales, you might have to install extra language packs for an operating system.
    - Preparing the Sametime® chat infrastructure
      If you want to use HCL Connections™ Docs with HCL Sametime® to add presence awareness and chat capability inside documents, you must set up the integration between these two products.
  - Installing the HCL Docs components
    Components for HCL Docs 2.0.2 must be installed using scripts. HCL Docs 2.0.2 does not support installation of components through the IBM Installation Manager (and, consequently, no repository.config file is available). For more information, refer to the following topics.
  - Post-installation tasks
    These post-install steps are required after an installation or uninstall/install of HCL Docs. During an upgrade, these changes are preserved so do not need to be repeated during the upgrade process.
  - Uninstalling HCL Docs components
    You can use the installer or use uninstall scripts to uninstall HCL Docs automatically.
- Upgrading or migrating
  You can upgrade HCL Connections™ Docs from the previous two releases to the current release by using the installer or upgrade scripts. You can also install the latest release on new hardware and then do a side-by-side migration from the old to the new.
- Security
  You might need to refer to this section during deployment. HCL Docs supports WebSEAL. This section is for setting up single sign-on (SSO) if installing HCL Docs in the same cell as IBM® Connections.
- Performance tuning
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your deployment, you can use the troubleshooting and support information.

Installing WebSphere® Application Server

The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server installation consists of two parts: IBM® Installation Manager and the WebSphere® Application Server itself.

IBM® Installation Manager

The IBM® Installation Manager is used to assist in the installation of WebSphere® Application Server and the corresponding fixpacks. You can go to IBM Installation Manager Knowledge Center for more details.

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server

Since the HCL Docs components are WebSphere-based applications, you must install WebSphere® Application Server, create profiles and servers for each of these applications: Editor Application, Editor Proxy, Document Format Conversion Application, and Viewer Application.

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