A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
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 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 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 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 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 readingThere can be good reasons to make your pods think that myurl.example.org resides at a different IP address than your dns servers would answer. This blog shows a quick and dirty way to establish just that
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.
