Comments on: Lotus Connections 2.5 install guide

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:04:33 +0000

My company uses IBM Cognos BI and we use Microsoft sharepoint at the moment.
We would like to move into IBM Lotus Connection 3.
I tried to install IBM Lotus connection in my test environment but I am finding it absolutely difficult to configure with WebSphere and IBM Cognos BI server10.1.1.
Can you provide me step by step instruction to make this system work.

I would be very thankful.

Regards
Greg

By: Dave Hay

Dave Hay — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:13:25 +0000

Jon, yep, I’d vote for clustering on Linux, as non-clustered is sooo last version Let me know if you need owt as I have a single node cluster running on VMware here

By: Jon Mell

Jon Mell — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:25:54 +0000

Thanks guys – will credit in the doc of course.

Any suggested scenarios? Clustered on Linux is my current thinking…?

By: Sharon Bellamy

Sharon Bellamy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:46:37 +0000

ahh yes you are right 2.5 did previous versions didn’t. I still needed to change my nodeagent.bat on windows (def when it’s a vm) or it fails also …

By: Dave Hay

Dave Hay — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:27:56 +0000

Sharon, did the LC25 installer not warn you that you needed to increase the heapsize on the DM node ? I’m sure it nagged me to do this, and I didn’t need to change the addNode.sh on the WAS node, Dave

By: Sharon Bellamy

Sharon Bellamy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:59:39 +0000

a couple of things for me that i have noticed.

In a windows vm environment when configuring the web server i have found i have to import the default was certificate into both http and plug-in key stores or ssl doesn’t work

for clustering you HAVE to change the min max size of the jvm for the addnode script and deployment manager or federation fails

and there of course is the whole if you move db / file store which i blogged on the connections blog.

I have my own guide (which uses oracle / AD ) so i can give you a copy of that if it helps

By: Dave Hay

Dave Hay — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:32:45 +0000

Two gotchas from me: -

a) Check that the Web Services Feature Pack for WebSphere Application Server is NOT installed, as it breaks Bookmarks. The LC25 team will (probably) release a Technote on this at some point and/or update the Sys. Req. document
b) Check that HTTP PUT method is allowed in any URL rewriting rules in the web server configuration, or person tagging in Profiles will be borked

Check my blog for more details on both …