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During a troubleshooting session in Component Pack, I checked the Kubernetes events.
To install the Component Pack for HCL Connections 8, you need to create a Mongodb5 image. The image sources can be found in the HCL MongoDB repository , and the process for creating the image is documented in Installing MongoDB5 for Component Pack 8 . The process involves using Docker, so if you have it installed, you can follow the instructions provided.
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Elasticsearch in HCL Connections Componentpack is secured with Searchguard and needs certificates to work properly. These certificates are generated by bootstrap during the initial container deployment with helm
.
These certificates are valid for 10 years (chain_ca.pem
) or 2 years (elasticsearch*.pem
) and stored in the Kubernetes secrets elasticsearch-secret
, elasticsearch-7-secret
. So when your HCL Connections deployment is running for 2 years, the certficates stop working.
Last week I played around with the HCL Connections documentation to backup Elasticsearch in the article Backup Elasticsearch Indices in Component Pack .
In the end I found that I couldn’t get the snapshot restored and that I have to run a command outside of my Kubernetes cluster to get a snapshot on a daily basis. That’s not what I want.
During a migration from Cognos Metrics to Elasticsearch Metrics, I had some issues with the index. So I wanted to create a backup of the already migrated data and start over from scratch.
The official documentation has an article on the topic: Backing up and restoring data for Elasticsearch-based components , but I had to slightly adjust the commands to get a successful snapshot.
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In the last few years, I have had issues with application servers using a large amount of CPU and even hanging application servers running the Tiny Spellchecking service. It ended with disabled spellchecking in the Tiny Editors’ config.js
.
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