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Simplify Administration and Management,

Increase Usability and Productivity

TIMETOACT GROUP, Cologne, Germany

http://timetoact.de/cat

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Agenda

Introduction

Content and Access Rights Management with CAT

Internal and External User Management with CAT

Administration and Configuration Management with CAT

Business Value & Appendix

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Introduction

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The Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT)

Web Application for the Administration and

Management of IBM Connections

All changes are done with a few clicks

No check-out / check-in procedure required

No editing of XML files

No knowledge of IBM Connections‘

architecture and admin commands,

WebSphere Application Server‘s wsadmin

etc. required

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Content and Acess Rights Management with

CAT

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Usage Scenario #1: Move a standalone blog to a community

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Usage Scenario #2: Merge wikis with similar content

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Usage Scenario #3: Convert a sub-community to a community

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Usage Scenario #4: List and Manage External Communities

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Usage Scenario #5: List all files shared externally

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And much more!

Move forum topics to standalone forum

Copy an activity to a community

View, assign and remove members

Add members to more than one community at once

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Internal and External User Management with

CAT

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Usage Scenario #1: List and Manage External Users

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Usage Scenario #2: Allow Internal Users to interact with External

Users (Assign EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role)

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And much more!

Assign disk quota policy to internal and external users

System health check to identify broken profiles

Solve user synchronization problems

Change UIDs

(Re-) Activate a user

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Administration and Configuration

Management with CAT

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Usage Scenario #1: Change global settings (LCC.xml)

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Usage Scenario #2: Enable and configure Language Selector

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Usage Scenario #3: Configure notifications

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Usage Scenario #4a: Purge (parts of) search index

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Usage Scenario #4b: Re-Create (parts of) search index

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Usage Scenario #5: Enable and disable IBM Connections features

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And much more!

Create new quota policies for various needs

Configure event handlers

Configure OAuth applications and gadgets

Fix brokens URLs in Blogs

Manage and create mime types

Reset welcome flag for all users

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Business Value

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Benefits

Easy to use, easy to install

Unveils the hidden treasures of IBM Connections administration and

configuration possibilities

Brings 1st and 2nd level support capabilities to your organization

through delegation of roles and thus reduces response times

Lowers maintenance costs

See all important information at a glance

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Benefits

Manage all content

Extensive filter options with typeahead to select the right content

See all metadata at a glance

Create, delete, purge and restore content

Add or remove members to even more than one feature at once

Manage internal and external users

See all user related data across all databases in one view

Solve synchronization problems and duplicate login values issues

Proactively run health checks on all profiles

See and manage all content of a particular user

Adminstrate system or feature configurations

Manage all schedulers and search indexing tasks26

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Compliance and Quality of Service

All changes done with CAT are written to log (when/who/what)

Bringing 1st & 2nd level support capabilities (delegation of roles)

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CAT Plugins

Customized Extensions

Additional functionality

More / other reports

UI/UX modifications

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Reference Customers

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Why Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT)?

Simplified content and user management respectively administration

of IBM Connections

Less overall (admin) training costs

Faster user support and change requests

Customizable through plug-ins to meet your business requirements

Faster deployment

Shorter project runtime

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More Information

Please visit the CAT web site:

http://connections-apps.com/product/connections-administration-toolkit-cat/

See also the CAT community on IBM Greenhouse:

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/CAT

Contact us via mail:

cat@timetoact.de

A demo version of CAT is available on request

NEW Offering: Connections Content/User Management and Administration

with CAT (on-site/web lecture)

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Appendix

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Technical Background (I)

CAT is a Java™ Enterprise Edition (JEE) Application and uses its own database

CAT is running on any WebSphere Application Server of the Websphere domain used

by Connections

The CAT database can be configured as

DB2, Oracle or SQL Server database

The CAT operations rely on:

Standard IBM Connections configuration files

Mbeans delivered as part of IBM Connections

Standard IBM Connections REST API

IBM Connections databases

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Technical Background (II)

Access to CAT is protected by standard WebSphere application roles

CAT works with “RunAs” users to access

Mbeans and the REST API

RunAs credentials configured in preferences and stored encrypted

No administrative privileges for the Connections administrator on WebSphere level required if using

CAT !!

CAT installation needs less than 1 hour

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Scope

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Webserver

Connections Cell

Deployment

Manager

Node

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LDAP

Databases (Profiles)

File Storage

TDI

CAT Scope