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Prepare Lotus Connections for maintenance

Let your users know about the planned outage while you update or migrate IBM Lotus Connections.


Ensure that your systems meet the requirements for Lotus Connections 2.5. For more information, see the Lotus Connections 2.5 system requirements topic.


To bring down Lotus Connection in preparation for updating or migrating the product...

  1. Inform users of the planned outage and let them know when the maintenance work will begin and how long it will last. You can send e-mail notifications to community members or post a message to an area of the product that is used to provide site status information.

  2. Perform one of the following steps:

    • Stop the IBM HTTP Server – only do this if no other applications are using the IBM HTTP Server.

    • Keep the webserver running but prevent user-access to the deployment during the migration or update. To accomplish this, set up a maintenance page and create a rewrite rule in the httpd.conf configuration file for the IBM HTTP Server to redirect requests for Lotus Connections:

      1. Create an HTML document notifying users of the server maintenance window. The maintenance page can inform users that Lotus Connections is temporarily unavailable because of scheduled maintenance work. Point to the maintenance page via these ErrorDocument statements:

        • ErrorDocument 401 /upgrading.htm

        • ErrorDocument 403 /upgrading.htm

      2. Add the following element to your httpd.conf file to block all non-authorized IP addresses from reaching the server and to send the user to the upgrading.html page:

        <Location / >

        Order Deny,Allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from <your.ip.address>

        Allow from <ip.address.of.each.machine.in.deployment>

        </Location>

        You must have an Allow element for every instance of WebSphere Application Server in your deployment.


When the migration or update is complete, remove the Location and ErrorDocument stanzas from the httpd.conf file.


Updating and migrating

Updating Lotus Connections 2.5

Uninstall updates

 

Related tasks

Backing up Lotus Connections

Migrating to Lotus Connections 2.5

Post-migration tasks

Migrating a stand-alone deployment

Migrating a network deployment

 

Related reference


Lotus Connections detailed system requirements

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