Pilot deployment
Use this deployment for test and evaluation purposes only. A pilot deployment provides a quick and easy way for you to preview the features and benefits of Lotus Connections. This basic environment provides you with an opportunity to learn which of the Lotus Connections features might be most appropriate in your enterprise.
The pilot deployment is installed on a Windows operating system with a local DB2 Express™ database for data storage. It also takes advantage of the out-of-box security, file based user registry. Therefore, no LDAP user registry is needed.
Figure 1
- WebSphere Application Server
- DB2 Express
- Lotus Connections and selected features
- Tivoli Directory Integrator to expedite the loading of user data into the Profiles database
No additional configuration is required. The installation configures WebSphere Application Server for use with Lotus Connections and also configures DB2 Express with the databases required for each feature.
Figure 1. Pilot topology
Limitations of a pilot deployment:
- Supported on Microsoft Windows only
- Supports a maximum user population of 100 users
- No LDAP server is installed, and no integration with an existing LDAP repository is supported
- Does not support IBM HTTP server
To set up a pilot deployment, see the Installing a pilot version of Lotus Connections topic. You can migrate the data that your users create in the pilot to a production environment. For more information, see the Migrating a pilot to a production installation topic.
Migrating a pilot to a production deployment
Related reference
Lotus Connections detailed system requirements