I previously mentioned the situation with Lotus Connections 1.0 and lack of support for Domino
- 6.1.0-WS-WAS-WinX32-FP0000003.pak
- 6.1.0.3-WS-WAS-IFPK37124.pak
- 6.1.0.3-WS-WAS-IFPK34390.pak
- PK38815.pak
6. Now is where it gets interesting, and I did not know this part till later on, there are at least 2 SPR regarding Domino LDAP SONL6WLKT4, and CKRR73WQ92 I can not find technotes on either one yet. I opened a PMR and support provided me with an additional Websphere fixpack which I was cautioned that the fix is only being tested. Without this Fixpack I was able to get Activities, Blogs, and Dogear working, but Communities would not allow a user to login, the fixpack fixed Communities, but because it fixed something in the authentication I had to drop and recreate my Activities database to get that working again. Since this is a sandbox install for me no big deal – but be warned. 7. Launch websphere, and configure Federated repositories, since Domino LDAP is not supported, there are no instructions for this step in the Connections install guide, so I used the instructions in the Sametime Gateway install (both products run on Websphere 6.1) If you did not enable Administrative Security during the WAS install do this step first, if you enabled already you can skip this. You want Administrative and Application security to be enabled, do not enable Java 2 Security at this point (the Communities install will enable it later on). Next follow these steps to configure your LDAP source. 8. Create the databases for Activities, Blogs, Communities and Dogear. Do not create the Profiles DB, that is a different process which requires TDI to be installed first. 9. Install and configure the IBM HTTP Server, make sure to install the WAS Plugins as part of the install, if you want to map the features and not require the port number in the URL. 10. Install the Connections features, they are installed one at a time, there are different ways to do this, I installed all the features in one WAS profile. So after all this I have a working configuration of Activities, Blogs, Communities and Dogear. If you can do this in a VM Environment I suggest you do, and use Snapshots along the way, they are life savers when you blow something up along the way and you can simply revert to a working snapshot. One other note on snapshots, I took all my snapshots with the VM Powered down, the advantage of this is that Snapshots taken when powered down can be used to create a clone, so I can take the machine at any snapshot, clone and pick up the install from that point if I want to try something else, saving me hours of installation and configuration. Next steps for me are the TDI and Profiles install, this is the part that is supposed to be the real issue with Domino LDAP so will see how far I get, and what other fixes support is willing to cough up at this time. One other piece of news, in Connections 1.0.1 due out later this month, I have heard they will be releasing a pilot install kit which one installer will wrap the DB2, WAS, and Connections installs, this install will only work with Tivoli Directory Server an is designed for pilots or demos, but you can add your own users into the LDAP. While an installer like this might have saved me a lot of time, I definitely learned quite a bit doing it piece by piece, this will help me when our pilot hardware arrives and I install this in a more production like environment. Domino LDAP support is still on track for 1.0.2 in October. Questions, comments, reactions welcome, will report back on my adventures with TDI and Profiles. Lotus Connections Resources Connections Info Center Websphere 6.1 Info Center DB2 v9 Info Center Lotus Connections Test Infrastructure Documents Lotus Connections Support Page Lotus Connections Forum
Great info, many thanks Mitch.
Thank you so much for doing this, Mitch.
The humorous part is where you post it and they won’t mind. I post it and I hear all sorts of IBM emails coming in to ‘adjust’ my posting.
So I link to yours on our same servers and viola!
Hey Mitch, I just found out about your blog and am going to send your URL to the GCPC and to my UX team. I am also going to link to this on my internal Users First IBM blog.
Mitch, great write up!
Good Stuff man!
Good info
You da man!!!!!!!
This looks great Mitch – I’ve just finished a install guide for Active Directory and Tivoli, but I’ll put a link here for the Domino piece. My doc is at { Link } but it may not be needed if IBM is about to release a wrapper install!!
Jon
Great post, Mitch! I was able to sail through all but the Profiles install. Saved it for last and I am now struggling with it. I was able to populate the data without much issue and it is fully searchable, but it will not allow authentication in the Profiles area so Profiles cannot be edited. Anybody get this part working yet?
Im a newbie to connections but have been trying out the Connections v2.0 pilot install. While the install completed the db2 tables were not created and sample user information was not setup. Do you have any guidance on how i go about trying to populate users again and/or linking the pilot install to my domino directory ? Any help is appreciated