A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
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 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 readingThe other day I installed Connections 7 on a CentOS 8-stream environment. Where I got into problems was installing the cumulative fixpack for Connections 7. Googling the error didn’t help me at all, so I decided to write this blog article about it. Hopefully this article will help someone who’s running into the same problem.
Continue readingA very short article today. I was searching for the Connections Desktop plugins and had trouble finding them. Luckily my
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.
