2. !
Gab Davis - Technical Director
The Turtle Partnership
gabriella@turtlepartnership.com ▪Administrator, Problem Solver,
Stubborn Fixer of Things
▪Working with IBM technologies
and all the things surrounding and
integrating with those
▪Based in London, about half the
time
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4. 4
• A Connections Administrator
is knowledgeable about
many different products and
tools that have a wider
application than just IBM
Connections
• A Connections developer can
use development tools from
CSS to OpenSocial gadgets to
Java and more, all have a
much wider application than
just IBM Connections
25. Population Wizard
Simple: Manual
1 LDAP Source > Profile
XML Files From TDISOL
1 LDAP Source > Profile
Some data manipulation
Assemblyline
Advanced: Realtime
Multiple Data Sources
Full data manipulation
28. HTTPD.CONF
In HTTPServerbin
Can be modified in WebSphere
PLUGIN-CFG.XML
Generated by WebSphere
Mappings for every application
Distributed to HTTPServer
29. DANGER!
!
The httpd.conf file can be easily broken as
it’s not validated on save
!
A faulty httpd.conf will prevent IHS from starting
36. Websphere Administration
▪ Application security - the rights users have to applications
• Not granular “one size fits all”
• New roles that change behaviour aren’t something you can add
!
• Wsadmin
• command line administration tool
• also used to make changes to application configuration settings
38. WSAdmin – sending commands
▪ Start in the BIN directory of the deployment manager
– C:IBMWebSphereAppServerprofilesDmgr01bin
!
▪ Call wsadmin by typing
wsadmin(.sh) –lang jython –username [name] –password [password]
▪ Choose which application you want to work with
execfile(“profilesAdmin.py”)
▪ Any changes you make here will be pushed out to all the nodes
– Wsadmin commands are case sensitive regardless of your platform
43. Do’s & do nots
▪ Backup your configuration using backupconfig before making changes to the configuration
– Never manually edit an XML configuration file, always use wsadmin which verifies the
XML structure as it’s checked back in
– Schedule the database reorg maintenance scripts to run regularly,
– Set up specific credentials for developers to use to access the Connections data, don’t re-
use administration credentials
– Ensure you have a test / staging server to test customisations, enhancements and
developments on
– Never skip post installation steps , or any steps, follow the documentation
!
– Never let your developer have ISC access or wsadmin access to a production
environment!
44. HOWTO FIND ME
Twitter, blogs, Instagram, Facebook and more
gabriella@turtlepartnership.com
GabriellaDavis (skype)
http://turtleblog.info
gabturtle on twitter and elsewhere