Simplify the administration of IBM Connections with this easy to install and easy to use web interface tool. Complex multilevel administration commands can be done with just a single click, even by administrators without WebSphere background. Easily accelerate and automate administrative tasks and enhance the maintenance tasks for IBM Connections. Benefit from extremely lowered effort for training and maintenance.

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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
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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
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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 tasks
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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
Less project costs
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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