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Administer Communities
You configure and administer Communities using scripts accessed using the IBM WebSphere Application Server wsadmin client. You can update the Communities environment in two ways:
- Configuration settings. Modify these settings to control various configurable features within Communities. When you make configuration changes, you use scripts to check out the Communities configuration file, make changes, and then check the file back in. A server restart is required for your changes to take effect
- Administrative commands: Use these commands to control various aspects of the Communities environment and community users. Administrative commands do not require a server restart to take effect.
- Running administrative commands
Jython scripts are used to administer the Communities feature. These scripts allow the administrator to view Communities data and perform administrative tasks for Communities.- Change Communities configuration settings
Configuration settings control how and when various Communities operations take place. You can edit the settings to change the ways that communities behave.- Create and populate communities
Use scripts accessed using the wsadmin command-line tool to create and populate a community. You can only add individuals to a community; you cannot add a group to a community. Changes to Communities administrative settings do not require a server restart to take effect, and no file checkout is necessary.- Add owners and members to a community
As administrator, you can use scripts accessed using the wsadmin command-line tool to add owners and members to existing communities. You can only add individuals to a community; you cannot add a group to a community. There is no limit on the number of members that you can add to a community.- Synchronize user identification data between Communities and the LDAP directory
Use administrative commands to synchronize member records in the Communities database with the LDAP- Manage community content
You can enable the active content filter to prevent users from embedding malicious content in text input fields. You can also use administrative commands to update or remove inappropriate information in fields to which you do not have owner access.- Configure the size of the community description summary
Use configuration settings to set the maximum size of a community description summary.- Configure display settings
Use configuration settings to control the display of data in the Communities feature.- Hiding the Start a community button from unauthenticated users
You can prevent unauthenticated users from creating communities by hiding the Start a community button.- Working with managed applications
Use the ManagedAppService commands to manage the applications that can be installed on community servers, such as Confluence Wiki and IBM Lotus Quickr™.- Administer remote applications
In IBM Lotus Connections, you can extend your community to include various components or applications. These applications are contained within the community as widgets. You can administer widget life-cycle events to ensure that changes are synchronized between the Communities server and the servers hosting the widgets.- Manage scheduled tasks
Use the CommunitiesSchedulerService commands to administer the community event tasks performed by the IBM WebSphere Application Server scheduler. Changes to Communities administrative settings do not require a server restart to take effect, and no file checkout is necessary.- Configure news event log clean-up
Edit settings in the communities-config.xml file to define the interval at which the EventLogCleanup task runs.- Securing proxy access
Based on the needs of your organization, you can circumvent the proxy provided internally with Communities to allow users to view external feeds. You can also add a proxy policy that defines the trusted and nontrusted Web sites for Communities only.- View and collect Communities metrics
Enter a URL to view a standard set of Communities metrics, or use administrative commands to collect metrics for the Communities feature and write them to a file. No file check out or server restart is required when using these commands.- Retrieving and listing community data
The community fetch commands return a Java™ vector of Java hash maps. No file checkout or server restart is required when using these commands.- Filtering community lists
Use the CommunitiesListService commands to filter the information in community lists and to generate smaller lists containing more specific information.- Administer discussion forums
Use administrative commands to supervise the content in a community's discussion forum, manage the forum trash, and schedule jobs for the forum.