After migrating to IBM Connections 4.5 with SPNEGO-SSO some users were unable to connect to the Connections system. The browser showed an Error 400 message and the users were not logged in to Connections. In the Websphere log files several
IBM Connections 4.5: Search Index does not finish
We currently had the problem that the creation of the search index of IBM Connections 4.5 never came to an end. In the log file you saw the following error messages: [codesyntax lang=”text”]
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CLFRW0957W: The seedlist url https://server.acme.com/activities/seedlist/myserver?Action=GetDocuments&Range=100&Start=1&Source=com.ibm.ilel.seedlist.retriever.connections.activities.ActivitiesRetrieverFactory&Format=xml&Locale=en_US&State=MTM0NjkyMjc3NTI3MDsxMTA0NTM0MDAwMDAwOzEzODMwNDE3NjAzODY7ZmFsc2U7MDswOzA7dHJ1ZTs%3D&useLocalFS=true has been requested more than twice in the same crawl.The application will now attempt to delete the seedlist pages persisted during this crawl activities. If this warning repeats on successive crawling or indexing jobs, there is a problem with the seedlist for the activities application. In this scenario, please contact IBM support. CLFRW0303E: Search has encountered a problem while crawling activities. The final seedlist page could not be reached. The crawl of activities could not be completed successfully. CLFRW0283E: Search has encountered a problem while crawling. CLFRW0294I: Search has finished crawling the activities component. CLFRW0962E: Some of the entries for activities were not indexed successfully. |
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IBM Connections – Migration from 4.0 to 4.5 – Some findings
Here is a short summary of what issues I saw during my last migration from IBM Connections 4.0 to 4.5:
Step-by-Step Applying CR1 for IBM Connections 4.5 with Connections Content Manager ( CCM )
Ok, now it is officially published. With these instructions an update of IBM Connections 4.5 including Connections COntent Manager to CR1 should no longer be a big problem 🙂
IBM Connections 4.5 CR1 Upgrade: Missing scripts
If you are missing the files “updateJVMArgs.py” and “ccmUpdate.sh” resp “ccmUpdate.bat” aftre you installed IBM Connections 4.5 CR1, then you might have forgotten one step. After unpacking the ZIP file with all CR1 fixes you find one additional ZIP file
IBM Connections: Error running “setupCmdLine.sh”
While running the setupCmdLine.sh script to set your Websphere environment variables you get the error: “dirname: invalid option — ‘b’”. This might happen if you start the script (as described in the documentation) from the directory “/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/”. If you instead
IBM Connections 4.5: Error while accessing IBM Content Manager Library
A customer reported an error while accessing an IBM Content Manager Library within communities. The user got the error message “We are unable to process your request. The library you are trying to access is not available. You can try
ST 8.5.x: Updated security certificate for Push Notifications (iOS)
Please be aware that you neeed to update the security certificate for iOS push notifications on your IBM Sametime proxy servers before July 18th. Otherwise push notifications to your iOS devices will stop working. Instructions how to download and install
Tivoli Directory Integrator: Change UI and Log Language
If you install Tivoli Directory Integrator on a Windows machine where you have set the regional settings to another language than English, the UI and all log messages of TDI appear in the local language instead of English. If you
IBM Sametime Meeting Help not accessable in Notes Sidebar
A customer was not able to access the online help for Sametime Meeting within the Notes embedded Sametime client. Neither the “Help Topics” link in the Meeting sideshelf nor the question mark button within a Meeting room did work. The