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Session: IBM Connections

IBM Connections findet in immer mehr IT Infrastrukturen Verwendung - nicht zuletzt da die Files und Profiles Funktionen in den Lizenzen für Lotus Notes und WebSphere Portal inzwischen enthalten sind. Erfahren Sie einen Überblick über Installation, Administration und Integration von IBM Connections und einen Einblick in Activity Streams, eine der wichtigsten neuen Funktionen der nächsten Version von IBM Connections.

Erwerben Sie das notwendige Wissen, um sich auf eine Einführung von IBM Connections vorzubereiten.

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Source If Applicable

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Profiles

Home Page

Communities

Bookmarks Forums Blogs Wikis

Files Activities

Ideation

Blogs

Media

Gallery

Feed

Reader

Cross-

Plattform

Mobile

Social Analytics

Social Everywhere

Social Networks


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IBM Connections

Architecture and Deployment


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3 IBM Connections 3.0.1 - Architecture and Deployment

IBM Connections logical topology

Access PointsBrowsers

Lotus Notes

Lotus Sametime

WebSphere Portal

Microsoft Office and Outlook

Microsoft Sharepoint

RIM BlackBerry, iPhone, Ipad, Nokia S60,

Android 2.x devices

Feed readers

Other rich clients

• Connections Service• (Requires WAS 7 - including IHS) running on:

Win 2003 32-bit Standard & EE

Win 2008 64-bit Enterprise Edition

AIX 6.1, 64-bit kernel support

SLES10 32-bit

RedHat 5.4 64-bit

Corporate

LDAP Directory(ITDS 6.2.0.1, Lotus Domino 8.x

MS 2003, ADAM. MS 2008

Sun Java System Directory Server 6.3

Novell eDirectory 8.8.5)

Relational Database(DB2® 9.5/9.7 or SQLServer 2005

or Oracle® 10g)


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IBM Connections Service Oriented Architecture


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IBM WebSphere and Connections terminology


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IBM Connections deployment options

Options available in the IBM Connections installer

Small deployment

– Install all applications in a single cluster on a single node.

– This option is the simplest deployment, but has limited flexibility and does not allow individual applications to be scaled up.

– For each node within the cluster, all applications run within a single JVM.

Medium deployment

– Install a subset of applications in separate clusters.

– IBM Connections provides three predefined cluster names shared among all applications.

– Use this option to distribute applications according to your usage expectations.

– This option allows you to maximize the use of available hardware and system resources

Large deployment

– Install each application into its own cluster.

– IBM Connections provides a predefined cluster name for each application.

– This option provides the best performance in terms of scalability and availability options, but also requires more system resources.


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Small Deployment


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WebSphere Application Server Small Deployment topology


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Medium Deployment


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Websphere Application Server Medium Deployment topology


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Large Deployment


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Websphere Application Server Large Deployment topology


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Proof of Concept Architecture

● Single machine

● Appropriate for simple demos, light testing

● All IBM Connections features installed in a single application server.


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Small deployment architecture

1 WebSphere node, 1 database server, 1 caching proxy (optional)

Appropriate for deployment to workgroup, small business, small deployment or pilot installations.


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Clustered deployment architecture


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Large/Complex Deployment architecture

ActivitiesCluster

BlogsCluster

CommunitiesCluster

Wikis Cluster

FilesCluster

DeploymentManager

Activities DBCluster

Blogs DBCluster Communities DB

Cluster

Dogear DBCluster

Profiles DBCluster

TivoliDirectory Integrator

OtherRepositories

LDAP NFSFile Share

Homepage DBCluster

HomepageCluster

Files DBCluster

Wikis DBCluster

BookmarkCluster

ProfilesCluster

Web

Sph

ere

HTT

PPlu

g-in

ProxyLoad Balancing

Caching

HTTPServers

ClusterForums

Forums DBCluster


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TIER 1 – Front End

WebS

phere

HTT

PP

lug-i

n

ProxyLoad Balancing

Caching

HTTPServers

This is a typical redundant tier 1 architecture

for scalable and available web environments.

Usually located in the DMZ for extranet use.

One of the most important performance gains for IBM Connections is via Caching

● 70% of network traffic to LC is Feed Polling. Feeds can be served by caching proxies.

● Caching Proxies off-load unnecessary traffic to the WebSphere Application Servers

Load balancing across multiple HTTP Servers is always recommended.


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TIER 2 – Application Layer

ActivitiesCluster

BlogsCluster

CommunitiesCluster

Wikis Cluster

FilesCluster

DeploymentManager

HomepageCluster

BookmarkCluster

ProfilesCluster

ClusterForums

This is the typical tier 2 application layer

WebSphere Clusters should be used when appropriate

Internal usage show that WebSphere Application Server is highly scalable for IBM Connections.

Best Practice: one cluster / component

Allows individual component scaling versus scaling all five components

More granular control


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TIER 3 – Back end

Activities DBCluster

Blogs DBCluster Communities DB

Cluster

Dogear DBCluster

Profiles DBCluster

TivoliDirectory Integrator

OtherRepositories

LDAP NFSFile Share

Homepage DBCluster

Files DBCluster

Wikis DBCluster

Forums DBCluster

● Tier 3 indicates the backend data components

● Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)● Relational database management system

(RDBMS)

● Network File System (NFS) File Share

● IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator

● LDAP

● Supports Tivoli Directory Server, Domino LDAP,

Novell eDir, Sun Directory Service and Active

Directory.

● Additional LDAPs will be supported in the future

● RDBMS

● Supports DB2 9.5 and 9.7, SQL Server 2005 and

Oracle 10g

● Activities, Blogs, Files, Wikis use the filesystem

● Tivoli Directory Integrator is used to aggregate data into the PEOPLEDB (Profiles)

● Internal usage patterns in IBM indicate that the RDBMS is one of the most heavily used components of the architecture.

● This probably exists already in your infrastructure


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Next Steps: What you should do next?

For more information:

IBM Connections Information Center

– http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/index.jsp

Official IBM Connections Product Website:

– http://www.lotus.com/connections

IBM developerWorks®

– http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/connections/

Official IBM Connections Hosted Website: Greenhouse

– https://greenhouse.lotus.com/login/login.jsp

Official Business Partner IBM Connections Website:

– http://www.lotus.com/connections/partners

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/index.jsp

http://www.lotus.com/connections

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/connections/

http://www.lotus.com/connections/partners


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IBM Connections on TAP functional topology

Node 1

Node 2

Web server

Deployment manager IBM directory

Databasehttp://connections.tap.ibm.com

WebSphereCell

File Server


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TAP functional topology

Node 1

Node 2

Web server

IBM directory

Databasehttp://connections.tap.ibm.com

WebSphereCell

Deployment manager

File Server

Node 1

serverA

serverB

serverC

serverD

serverF

serverH

serverM

serverW

serverA

serverB

serverC

serverD

serverF

serverH

serverM

serverW

Node 2cell

cluster W

cluster M

cluster H

cluster F

cluster D

cluster C

cluster B

cluster A

Node 1

serverP serverP cluster P


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TAP deployment hardware

WAS

Node 2

WAS

Node 1

Web serverDeployment manager

Database

DB2

File Server

1TB disk (SAN) NSFv4 shared

4GB RAM2 CPU cores @2.66Mhz

16GB RAM4 CPU cores @2.66Mhz(each node)

16GB RAM4 CPU cores @2.66Mhz

100GB disk (SAN)1TB disk (SAN) NSFv4 shared



IBM Connections 3.0.1

Administration and IT Operations Overview


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2 IBM Connections 3.0.1 - Administration and IT Operations Overview

Agenda

Administration Overview

Active Content Filter Configuration

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console

IBM® Connections Application Administration with wsadmin

Common Administration

User Life Cycle Management

Compliance and Audit Support

Backups




IBM Collaboration Solutions Portfolio

Integration


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3 IBM Connections 3.0.1 - Lotus Portfolio Integration

Extending your Social Network with IBM products

IBM Lotus Notes

Activities sidebar

Status Update

Files & Search

Bookmarks & Business Card

IBM Sametime Post chat to an Activity

Post chat to Community Forum

Business Card

IBM Lotus Quickr

Add page to Activity

Publish to Quickr

Community Wiki

IBM WebSphere Portal

Portlet integration with

services into pages and sites

Service Portlets

Communities Blogs BookmarksActivitiesProfilesHome page WikisFiles




Microsoft Integration


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2 IBM Connections 3.0.1 - Microsoft Integration

Agenda

Business Value: How can this feature improve your business?

Integration with Microsoft: Overview

Integration with Windows Desktop

Integration with Microsoft Office

Integration with Microsoft SharePoint

Summary



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Extensibility


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2 Lotus Connections 3.0.1 - Extensibility

Agenda

Business Value: How can the Connections API improve your business?

Integration basics

Connections REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API overview

Application Programming Interface (API) examples

Connections Service Provider Interface (SPI) overview

Next steps: What should you do next?


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