Updating your HCL Leap – Mind the Content Security Policy
We installed HCL Leap in 2024 as a replacement for the old community surveys. At that time, version 9.3.6 was the supported release. Later
Continue readingHow to prevent Connections from spoofing mails
Did you know HCL Connections can send system emails that appear to come from individual users — even external ones? This can cause spoofing issues and damage your mail server’s reputation. In my latest post, I explain how to fix this with a simple configuration change introduced in Connections 6 CR4.
Continue readingRemoving security-auditlog indexes from your OpenSearch cluster
If you’re running HCL Connections with OpenSearch, you might be unknowingly storing hundreds of security-auditlog indexes, one for each day since your migration. These tiny but numerous indexes quickly consume shards, impacting cluster health.
In this post, I’ll show you how to disable unnecessary audit logs (if you don’t need them) and safely remove old ones, freeing up resources and restoring cluster stability
TDILabjam – a nice bunch of TDI enthusiasts
The Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) editor may not be something you use every day as an HCL Connections admin, but when you need it, usually after months or even years, it’s mission critical. If you’ve ever opened a TDI AssemblyLine only to realize you’ve forgotten everything, you’re not alone. Luckily, there’s help!
Continue readingQuerying your OpenSearch index
OpenSearch powers key HCL Connections features like Orient Me and Metrics. As an admin, knowing how to query indexes directly helps you verify data integrity, troubleshoot search issues, and manage storage. This article walks through essential REST API commands to inspect index health, mappings, and content, using a reusable sendRequest script.
Continue readingWebSphere 8.5.5 FP27 & HCL Connections… beware!
IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 Ficpack 27 introduced a security feature: TLS certificate hostname verification. This might provide problems in your HCL Connections WebSphere environment and will cause problems if you’re using the HCL Connections component pack if you don’t take the proper measures.
Continue readingHow to fix SELinux permission denied errors with Nginx config files
If you’ve ever been hit by a “permission denied” error while enabling a new site in nginx and your file permissions look alright, you’re probably facing a SELinux file context problem. This article explains how to fix it.
Continue readingCreating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file
t’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.
Continue readingA little Domino container story
A short story of my experience of updating a Domino 10 on CentOS 7 server to a Domino 14.0 FP3 IF2 server on AlmaLinux 9 using containers.
Continue readingChanging the file size limit for a community
By default, a HCL Connections community can contain 500 MB of files in the Files widget. Depending on what kind of content is posted in the community, that might not be enough. It’s possible to change the file limit, both for communities and for personal files. This article shows how to do it.
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