A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
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
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 readingBy 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.
Continue readingOne of the nicer extensions which you get when you install the HCL Connections component pack is Activities Plus, or, if you pay an extra license fee to ISW/Huddo, Huddo Boards. If you don’t want to install the component pack, you can still use Huddo Boards. This article explains how.
Continue readingHuddo Boards (previously known as Kudos Boards) uses an open source component: Minio. This open source component recently had an update that breaks Boards. If you’re a Boards user, be sure to read this.
Continue readingTivoli/Security Directory Integrator won’t just install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. You need extra packages and not all of them are in the standard repositories. This article outlines how to install TDI on RHEL 8
Continue readingAt the end of last year, I was asked by a customer if I could update the Java engine of
Continue readingNormally a Kubernetes environment is well maintained and regularly updated with the most recent versions of Kubernetes. However, with a
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.
