To use the Edge Component Caching Proxy Server in an IBM Connections environments, you must create certain rules to enable a user to connect successfully to IBM Connections through the proxy server. There are two types of rules: Global rules: The global rules define the behavior of the Edge ...

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Meet the authors This book is produced by a team of specialists from around the world. Enio Rubens Basso is an IT Specialist for IBM Software Group in Brazil. He has more of 16 years as IT Professional and joined IBM in 2009, starting as a Client Technical Professional at IBM Collaboration ...

IBM Connections is an enterprise class social software platform. It features applications that any size business can leverage for collaboration. Whether internal or externally accessible, content can be created and shared with dynamic networks of colleagues in features such as Communities, Blogs, ...

The following figure shows the major software components in an IBM Connections 4 deployment: IBM HTTP Server The IBM HTTP Server is a frontend web server that provides the HTTP connection between the browser and the application server. A plugin, generated by IBM WebSphere Application server, ...

IBM Connections V4.0 provides advanced social software features and functions for business that helps enable you to access the right people and internal and external content in your professional networks and communities. Here we cover the new features introduced in IBM Connections 4. ...

IBM Connections is a product from IBM that uses a set of J2EEbased social collaboration services tailored to support the needs of the enterprise. It consists of lightweight, independent features designed to allow for incremental implementation and adoption by the business, while at the same time ...

In this section, we describe the considers and requirements for a successful IBM Connections deployment. We cover the following topics: 2.1 Architecture considerations 2.2 Hardware requirements 2.3 Software requirements 2.4Performanceconsiderations2.4 Performance considerations ...

The IBM Connections product manual provides a detailed description of the deployment options and considerations in planning an IBM Connections deployment. In this section, we describe the planning considerations for our lab environment (see the figure below) which is a slightly modified small ...

The hardware requirements for IBM Connections are very much dependent on the type of implementation you are going with. It is also affected by the operating system that you choose. Typically, Windows server deployments requires more available memory than Linux due to the overheads of the operating ...

IBM Connections 4 can be installed on a wide range of software and hardware including Microsoft Windows and a number of Linux distributions. The table below summarizes the supported combinations. Before start your installation, you have to check if your environment is fully compatible with the IBM ...

The performance of IBM Connections is largely dependent on the following variables: The amount of memory allocated to the Java virtual machines used by WebSphere Application Server The number of processors available for processing The speed of connectivity between the application server and the ...

To make planning easier IBM has categorized three different sizes of deployment of IBM Connections. Additional guidance can be found here. The scenarios are as follows: Small deployment Medium deployment Large deployment Small deployment This option installs all applications in a single ...

This sections describes the planning required for IBM Connections before installation. LDAP LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) is a protocol used by most Enterprise directories for talking to each other in a common language. In an IBM Connections environment, the WebSphere servers ...

Planning for Profiles usually takes most time and is the most challenging of all the features of IBM Connections because it utilizes data imported from the organization LDAP. This data can contain information such as user names, email, unid, and so on. Some points to take care of while planning ...

In this chapter, we explain the tasks that must be performed before installing IBM Connections. After you have decided the architecture environment, you must prepare your environment for IBM Connections installation. 5.1Verifysoftwarerequirements5.1 Verify software requirements ...

An IBM Connections environment consists of many software such as WebSphere Application Server. relational database server, and Cognos. Some of the software come with IBM Connections. IBM Connections 4 is available at IBM Passport Advantage website at: ...

An IBM Connections environment consists in many servers that run various software product integrated with IBM Connections. The communications between those servers is based on TCP connections and name resolution through dynamic name server (DNS), so you must have a DNS server configured on your ...

In our lab, we use Domino Directory Server as the LDAP users repository. If you want to use an existing LDAP Server other then Domino, make sure that it is V3 LDAP compliant. Determine which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes you want to use as the identifiers for IBM ...

IBM Connections allows you to enhance your profile by adding a picture from yourselves enabling the profile photo feature. Depending on your organization's needs, you can choose specifics profiles to enable or disable this feature. You can also configure access control settings for the profile ...

Before installing your IBM Connections environment, you must verify if your operation system are supported and provide sufficient disk space for a successful installation and operation of the product that you plan to install. Operating system requirements Linux For IBM Connections on Linux ...

Installing IBM Connections can be broken down in to the following distinct phases: Preparing the computer environment physical or virtual Preinstalling and configuring the components Connections requires to run: Setting up the installation manager Installing the database Creating the ...

On this section we show you the steps to install the IBM Installation Manager. IBM Installation Manager is a tool responsible for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It allows you to manage IBM software applications and packages. Installation Manager also helps you to track what is ...

The relational database systems that IBM Connections supports including DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. DB2 is bundled with IBM Connections. In this section, we describe the DB2 installation steps. In our lab environment, we use the following steps to install DB2 on Linux: Start the ...

In this section, we explain how to install Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.1 and apply Fix Pack. Installing Tivoli Directory Integrator Follow these steps to install Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.1: Unzip the Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.1 for Windows (CZ9MKML) in a temporary directory ...