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Install the pilot deployment


Overview

Install the pilot deployment of Lotus Connections to evaluate the product in a stand-alone deployment. This type of installation is suitable for product evaluation purposes only and is not intended for use in a production environment.

Provide actual user data if you plan to migrate from the pilot installation to a production installation. To provide actual user data, create a user information file before you begin the pilot installation. Alternatively, you can add a user information file to the pilot user repository after the installation. For more information about actual user data, see the Creating a user information file and Adding actual users to the pilot topics.

The pilot is supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Other operating systems are not supported.

The system on which you install the pilot must have at least six GB of free space.

The pilot installation places all Lotus Connections features on a single system. It also installs the following supporting software packages:


Install a Lotus Connections pilot deployment

  1. Remove any existing installations of WAS from the system on which you are installing the pilot.

  2. Remove any existing installations of DB2 and any DB2-related user or group IDs.

  3. Grant administrator access to the user ID that you use to install the pilot and create the DB2 database:

    1. From the Control Panel, select...

        Administrative Tools | Computer Management | System Tools | Local Users and Groups | Groups | Administrators | Add

    2. In the Object names field, enter the user ID that you want to add and click OK.

      If the target user ID is not found, create the new user ID or ask your system administrator to add it.

    3. Click OK.

  4. Optional: You can create a domain in Windows Server 2003 and install the pilot in the domain. If you plan to log in as a domain user, add the domain user ID to a DB2 administrator group:

    1. From the Control Panel, select...

        Administrative Tools | Computer Management | System Tools | Local Users and Groups | Groups (Right-click) | New Group

    2. Enter DB2ADMNS in the Group Name field.

    3. Click Create and then click Close.

    4. Right-click the new group and select...

        Properties | Add

    5. In the Object names field, enter the user ID that you want to add and click OK.

      If the target user ID is not found, create a new user ID and repeat these steps or ask your system administrator to add the new user ID.

    6. Click OK.

  5. Download the Lotus Connections installation program from the Lotus Connection Web site and double-click it to extract the setup files. This step creates a directory named Lotus_Connections_Pilot_Install, which contains the installation files.

  6. Open the Lotus_Connections_Pilot_Install directory, and then double-click the install.bat file to start the installer.

  7. Select an installation language and click OK.

  8. On the Welcome page, click Launch Information Center

  9. Accept the Lotus Connections license agreement

  10. Specify the directory where you want to install Lotus Connections:

    You can accept the default directory, enter a new name, or click Browse to select an existing directory. All the prerequisite software, including WAS and DB2, is installed into this

  11. Specify an administrative user ID. You can accept the default value or enter a new value. Enter a password and click Next.

    There are three user IDs in the Lotus Connections pilot:

    • WAS administrative user ID
    • DB2 Express Edition administrative user ID
    • DB2 user ID for accessing the features database

    By default, all the user IDs are predefined as lcuser and all three user IDs share the same password that you enter in this step.

    You can change the administrative user ID for WAS and DB2 Express, although you cannot change the default DB2 user ID for accessing the features database. Any new administrative user ID that you specify must be a new Windows ID. You can use the new IDs to log into the WAS admin console to configure and manage Lotus Connections features, or to administer the DB2 instance, create schema definitions, and set up access to the databases for Lotus Connections features.

  12. Select the check boxes next to the features that you want to install and Click Next. You can select from the following options:

    Option Description
    Activities Collaborate with colleagues
    Blogs Write personal perspectives about projects
    Communities Discuss projects in the user forums
    Dogear Bookmark useful Web sites
    Files Share files
    Profiles Find people in the organization
    Wiki Share and edit information

    You cannot add a feature to an existing pilot installation. You should install all the features now that you plan to use. If you install only a subset of features but then ant to use more features, uninstall and reinstall the pilot deployment.

    If you install discussion forums in the Communities feature, single sign-on is automatically enabled.

  13. Select the extended features that you want to install and click Next. You can select from the following options:

    Option Description
    Home page Access all features from a central point. The availability of this feature is determined by the features that you selected in the previous step.
    Mobile Access Lotus Connections from mobile devices. The mobile feature is only available for installation if you selected Activities, Blogs, or Profiles in the previous step. .
    Search Search Lotus Connections data
    News Stay informed about updates

    The Home page and Mobile features rely on the features that you selected in the previous step. The Search and News features provide services to the features that you selected in the previous step.

  14. Accept the default host name for the WAS or enter a different host name. This host name forms the Web address that you use to access the features. Click Next.

  15. Review the installation summary to ensure that the values you entered on previous screens are correct. To make a change, click Back to edit a value. Otherwise, click Next to begin the installation.

  16. After the installation has completed successfully, click Next.

  17. On the user registration page, you can either accept the default users.txt file to use sample user data or click Browse to retrieve the user information file containing actual user data that you created previously. Click Next.

    See Creating a user information file for details about how to provide actual user data.

  18. Click Finish to close the installation wizard and start the server that hosts the features.

 

Results

The content stores for each feature are created in the following file locations:

Feature Directory (samples only) Description
Activities content files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\ activities\contentstore

Content to store files uploaded to Activities by users. This is additional storage space outside the database and stores files such as images.
Activities statistics files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\ activities\statistic

Content to store files uploaded to Activities by users. This is additional storage space outside the database and stores files such as images.
Blogs upload files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\blogs\upload

File upload for adding files such as images to Blogs.

These files can be very large, so you should ensure that the has enough disk space

Communities discussion forum content

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\communties\content

Content store for the discussion forums, storing additional content such as images and presentations
Communities statistics files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\communties\statistic

Statistics files, used for storing statistics generated by Communities. The file format is CSV
Dogear favicon files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\dogear\favorite

Favicon files directory, used for the favicons (favorite icons) that are generated by Dogear users
Files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\files\contentstore

Files content
Profiles cache

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\profiles\cache

Cached files
Profiles statistics files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\profiles\statistic

Statistics files, used for storing statistics generated by Profiles. The file format is CSV
Search index files

C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\search\index

Search index files
Search index

  • AIX or Linux

    • /usr/IBM/LotusConnections/Data/search/index

  • Windows:

    • C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\search\index

Search index files
Wikis content files

  • AIX or Linux:

    • /usr/IBM/LotusConnections/Data/wikis/contentstore

  • Windows:

    • C:\Program Files\LotusConnections\Data\wikis\contentstore

Wikis content


Log into Lotus Connections and begin evaluating the product. For more information, see the Accessing the pilot deployment topic.

If you plan to use the Blogs feature, configure the feature before you can start creating blogs. For more information, see the Configure Blogs topic.


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