A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
HCL is using OpenSearch as part of its component pack for HCL Connections 8 for metrics and the typeahead functionality. The standard settings for the OpenSearch are rather conservative, and might not work for your environment. In particular if your environment is heavily used, you might run into problems. HCL did provide a possibility in their Helm chart to tune the settings. This article explains how to use it.
Continue readingDocker doesn’t clean up after itself. Images, layers, and especially the build cache can grow silently, until your disk fills up. Time to prune.
Continue readingIf your Domino installer “succeeds” in seconds but installs nothing, you might be dealing with a hidden X11 forwarding issue. Here’s the subtle clue that gave it away, and the simple fix.
Continue readingNext week, a large part of the HCL software community will gather in Ghent, Belgium, for the annual Engage conference. I will be a speaker again this year, but in a special role. Daniel Nashed, Bill Malchisky and I teamed up to provide a 3-session workshop style Domino on Linux Installfest.
Continue readingWe 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 readingDid 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 readingIf 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
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 readingOpenSearch 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 readingIBM 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 readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
