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Modifying the installation in interactive mode

Modify your deployment of HCL Connections by adding or removing applications.

Use the Modify function of the IBM® Installation Manager to add or remove HCL Connections applications.

To modify your installation, complete the following steps:

  1. Open a command prompt and change to the IM_root directory.

  2. Run the following command:

    • Linux: ./launcher
    • Windows: launcher.exe
    • From the IBM Installation Manager menu, click File > Preferences.

  3. Click Repositories.

  4. In the Repositories area, select the repositories that you want to modify.

  5. Click OK to save your selections.

  6. Click Modify.

  7. Select HCL Connections and click Next.

  8. In the Application Selection page, choose the applications you want to add or remove and then click Next.

    • Add applications: Select the check boxes of any applications that are not already installed and that you want to add to your deployment.

    • Remove applications: Clear the check boxes of any installed applications that you want to remove from your deployment. Notes:

    • All installed applications are selected by default.

    • The Home page, News, and Search applications are required and cannot be removed.
    • Enter the administrative ID and password of the Deployment Manager.

    Note: This ID is set to the connectionsAdmin J2C authentication alias, which is mapped to the following Java™ EE roles: dsx-admin, widget-admin, and search-admin. It is also used by the service integration bus. If you plan to use security management software such as Tivoli® Access Manager or SiteMinder, the ID that you specify here must exist in the LDAP directory. For more information, see the Switching to unique administrator IDs for system level communication topic.

  9. Configure your topology:

    Notes:

    • The panel described in this step appears only if you selected new applications to install.
    • If you select an existing cluster on which to deploy applications, the nodes in that cluster are fixed and cannot be modified.
    • Small deployment:
      1. Select the Small deployment topology.
      2. Enter a Cluster name for the topology.
      3. Select a Node.
      4. Click Next.

    • Medium deployment:

      1. Select the Medium deployment topology.

      2. Select the default value or enter a Cluster name for each application or for groups of applications. For example, use Cluster1 for Activities, Communities, and Forums.

        Note: IBM Installation Manager creates servers and clusters when required.

      3. Select a Node for each cluster. Accept the predefined node or select a different node.

        Note: These nodes host application server instances that serve HCL Connections applications. You can assign multiple nodes to a cluster, where each node is a server member of that cluster.

      4. Enter a Server member name for the selected node. Choose the default or enter a custom name.

        Note: If you enter a custom server member name, the name must be unique across all nodes in your deployment.

      5. Click Next.

        • Large deployment:
      6. Select the Large deployment topology.

      7. Enter a Cluster name for each application.

        Note: IBM Installation Manager creates servers and clusters when required.

      8. Select a Node for each cluster. Accept the predefined node or select a different node.

        Note: These nodes host application server instances that serve HCL Connections applications. You can assign multiple nodes to a cluster, where each node is a server member of that cluster.

      9. Enter a Server member name for the selected node. Choose the default or enter a custom name.

        Note: If you enter a custom server member name, the name must be unique across all nodes in your deployment.

      10. Click Next.

      11. Enter the database information.

    Note: The panel described in this step appears only if you selected new applications to install and if the new applications require database configuration.

    Note: The Connections Content Manager databases will not be shown if you have chosen to use an existing FileNet® deployment.

    Note: Database information for Global Configuration Data and Object Store must be set correctly or installation will fail.

    1. Use the same database server or instance: Select Yes or No.

      Note: If allowed by your database configuration, you can select multiple database instances as well as different database servers.

    2. Select a Database type from one of the following options:

      • IBM DB2 Universal Database™
      • Oracle 19c Enterprise
      • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition
        1. Enter the Database server host name. For example: appserver.enterprise.example.com

      If your installed applications use different database servers, enter the database host name for each application.

    3. Enter the Port number of the database server. The default values are: 50000 or 25000 for DB2®, 1521 for Oracle, and 1433 for SQL Server.

      Note: For DB2, 50000 is the default port number for DB2 v11.5.5 and earlier, and 25000 is the default for DB2 v11.5.6 and later.

      If your installed applications use different database servers or instances, enter the port number for each database server or instance.

    4. Enter the JDBC driver location. For example:

      • Linux:

        /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/lib

      • Windows:

        C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\lib

    5. Ensure that the following JDBC driver libraries are present in the JDBC directory:

      DB2 : db2jcc4.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar

      **Note:** Ensure that your user account has the necessary permissions to access the DB2 JDBC files.

      Oracle : ojdbc8.jar

      SQL Server : Download the SQL Server JDBC 4 driver from the Microsoft website to a local directory and enter that directory name in the JDBC driver library field.

      The directory must not contain the sqljdbc.jar file, only the sqljdbc42.jar file. An exception occurs if both files are present in the same directory.

    6. Enter the User IDand Password for each database.

      If each database uses the same user credentials, select the Use the same password for all applications check box and then enter the user ID and password for the first database in the list.

      Note:

      If your database type is Oracle, you must connect to the database with the user ID that you used when you created the application database.

    7. Click Validate to verify your database settings. If the validation fails, check your database settings. When the validation succeeds, click Next.

      IBM Installation Manager tests your database connection with the database values that you supplied. You can change the database configuration later in the WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console.

      Note: Usually you can continue even if the validation failed because you can change the database settings from WebSphere Application Server Integrated Solutions Console afterward.

  10. In the summary panel, confirm your selection and click Modify.

  11. When the modification process is complete, restart the Deployment Manager and all the nodes.

    Note: Wait until the DM copies all the application EAR files to the installedApps directory on each of the nodes. This process can take up to 30 minutes.

    To verify that the DM has distributed the application EAR files to the nodes, check the SystemOut.logfile of each node agent. The default path to the SystemOut.logfile on a node is profile_root/logs/nodeagent.

    Look for a message such as the following example: ADMA7021I: Distribution of application application_name completed successfully. where application_name is the name of an HCL Connections application.

The log file for IBM Installation Manager records the values that you entered when you ran IBM Installation Manager in interactive mode. To review the log file for IBM Installation Manager, open the date_time.xml file, where date_time represents the date and time of the installation. The file by default is in the following directory:

  • Linux (root user): /var/ibm/InstallationManager/logs
  • Linux (non-root user): user_home/var/ibm/InstallationManager/logswhere user_home is the non-root user account directory

To check the complete details of the installation, open each of the log files in the connections_root/logs directory. Each HCL Connections application that you installed has a log file, using the following naming format: applicationInstallog.txt, where application is the name of an HCL Connections application.

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