Hcl Connections

I’m still working on encrypting all network traffic between Connections and Component Pack servers. This time I checked the Ingress-Nginx Controller - TLS/HTTPS documentation.
The default configuration for connecting IHS with Component Pack uses the plain HTTP port 32080. All traffic like /social
or the Tailored Experience wizard is routed from IHS to Kubernetes on port 32080.
Our target is to encrypt the traffic on port 32443.
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At the moment I’m working with a customer to secure all traffic in HCL Connections. The target is to have only encrypted network traffic between servers.
Today I started enabling encryption to Redis. This is a documented process , but the documentation is outdated and incomplete.

Today I read the article KB0118248 and remembered my blog post from 2018 . I also checked the attached aha idea where a comment states that you can use iframe for Youtube. Despite what KB0118248 incorrectly states, it is absolutely possible to embed videos in HCL Connections blogs and wikis using the HTML video tag as demonstrated in this post.
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The HCL Connections documentation describes the process for configuring Windows desktop single-sign-on in a somewhat complicated way. Here are the necessary steps for setting up with the highest possible encryption.
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I haven’t touched the Connections scripts for a long time, but I recently made some minor updates to fix compatibility issues with newer versions and added small scripts to speed up configuration. I also got the documentation script running from the menu.
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I showed, in several slides and sessions, how you can use the search-admin role in the search application of HCL Connections for troubleshooting and reviewing some key configurations.
In several environments, my user or other administrative users have this role, just to access the link to /search/serverStatus
for example.

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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The annual conference of DNUG took place in Constance from 22nd to 23rd of June 2022.
I attended the HCL Connections Roadmap session given by Rene Schimmer and David Strachan. They showed the updates for version 8 and beyond.

Today I got the question of how to disable the highlights app in Connections 7. When you follow the documentation for Connections 6.0CR6 you get an error message (and the document is not available in Connections 7).
I commented out the widget definition in widgets-config.xml
like described in the documentation for the former release.

In late 2021 I had an HCL Connections environment starting swapping, because the AppCluster used more than 30 GB of memory.
The system has
- two nodes
- is installed with the medium-sized deployment option
- About 7500 users with a high adoption rate, because Connections is also used as intranet
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