Disable the social analytics service

The social analytics widgets help users to discover how they are connected to other users and content, and suggest network contacts and content that might interest them. The social analytics service is enabled by default.

To edit configuration files, start wsadmin.sh

Disable the social analytics service automatically removes all the features provided by the service, including the social analytics widgets available in Profiles, Communities, and the Home page. The indexing process associated with the social analytics service is also disabled.

When you disable the social analytics service, the following widgets are removed from the user interface:

• Do You Know (Profiles)

• Recommendations (Communities)

• Recommendations (Home page)

• Who Connects Us? (Profiles)

• Things in Common (Profiles)

You disable the social analytics service by using wsadmin commands to set the sand.enabled and sand.ssl.enabled properties in LotusConnections-config.xml to false. For more information about changing common configuration properties, see Change common configuration property values.

<sloc:serviceReference serviceName="sand" 
        enabled="false"
        ssl_enabled="false">
        <sloc:href>
            <sloc:hrefPathPrefix>/news/common/sand</sloc:hrefPathPrefix>
        <sloc:static href="admin_replace" ssl_href="admin_replace"/>
        </sloc:href>
    </sloc:serviceReference>

To disable the social analytics service.

1. Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the Connections configuration files:

   1. Access the Connections configuration file: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")

      If we are prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to select the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file by using a local file path, we must select the node where the file is stored. This information is not used by the wsadmin client when we are making configuration changes.

   2. Check out Connections configuration files:

      LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("/tmp","cell_name")

      where:

      • /tmp is the temporary working directory to which configuration files are copied. The files are kept in this working directory while you edit them.

        • With Windows, use a forward slash for the directory. For example: "/tmp".

      • To determine: print AdminControl.getCell()

2. To find out the current value of a property: LCConfigService.showConfig()

3. To disable the social analytic service:

   LCConfigService.updateConfig("sand.enabled","false")
   LCConfigService.updateConfig("sand.ssl.enabled","false")

What to do next

Check the configuration files back in during the same wsadmin session in which you checked them out. See Applying common configuration property changes.

Parent topic:
Customize the deployment

Related:
Social analytics widgets
Exclude specific users from the social analytics service