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Using the Confluence connector installation wizard

Install the IBM Lotus Connections Connector for Confluence to bring wiki capabilities and collaboration functionality to your communities. You must run the installer on the server hosting the Communities application.


To install the Lotus Connections Connector for Confluence...

To install the connector in a network environment, install the connector on all of the nodes in the cluster.

  1. Download the Lotus Connections Connector for Confluence from the Lotus Connections catalog, which you can access from the following Web site:

    http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/lotusconnections

  2. From the Connector Install Directory, open the confluence directory, and run the executable file to launch the installation wizard for your deployment:

    • AIX 

        chmod +x setupaix.bin
./setupaix.bin

  3. Linux 

      chmod +x setuplinux.bin
./setuplinux.bin

  4. Microsoft Windows 

      setupwin32.exe

  5. Select the language to use for the installation wizard.

  6. In the Welcome panel, click Next to continue.

  7. Review and accept the license agreement by selecting I accept the terms in the license agreement.

  8. Click Next.

  9. In the Connector Configuration Settings panel, enter the following information to configure the connector:

    Option Description
    Confluence server host name Host name of the Confluence server.

    For example: confluence.acme.com

    Confluence server port Port to connect to the Confluence application.

    For example: 9080

    Confluence server SSL port Port to connect to the Confluence application over SSL. If SSL is not configured, then leave this field blank.

    For example: 9443

    Confluence username attribute The LDAP attribute used as the login ID for the Confluence server. This specifies that a user's e-mail address is the login ID for the Confluence server. When performing member synchronization between Communities and Confluence, the plug-in performs an LDAP lookup to get the LDAP attribute specified in the username attribute to add or remove users on the Confluence server identified by the username attribute.

    For example: mail

    Confluence server base URI Confirm that the baseUri of the Confluence server is "/confluence", that is, http://www.example.com/confluence. If not, remove /confluence so that the field is empty, which would mean that the URL to the Confluence server is http://www.acme.com.
    Confluence API base URI This should remain unchanged.
    J2C authentication user name Name of the user that will manage the Confluence Wiki.

    For example: confadmin

    J2C authentication password Password of the J2C authentication user.
    LDAP host name Host name of the LDAP server shared by the Confluence and Lotus Connections servers.

    For example: ldap.acme.com

    LDAP Directory Port Port used to connect to the LDAP server.

    For example: 389

    LDAP bind user authentication alias The authentication alias created for the LDAP Bind User in the Set up Authentication Aliases section of the pre-installation tasks. The node name is prepended to the alias name in the IBM WebSphere Application Server administration console. If your LDAP server does not require a bind user, leave the ldapBindEntry value blank.

    For example: WasNode01/ldapBind

  10. Click Next to continue.

  11. In the Connector Install Destination panel, enter information in the following fields:

    Option Description
    Lotus Connections install home directory This is the where Lotus Connections is installed.

    For example: C:\IBM\WebSphere\LotusConnections

    Connector libraries install location Specify the WEB-INF\lib for the Communities application as the location where the connector libraries will be installed.For example: WAS_HOME\profiles\profile\installedApps\cell\Communities.ear\comm.web.war\WEB-INF\lib where:

    • WAS_HOME is the where WebSphere Application Server is installed.

    • profile is the name of the WebSphere Application Server profile where the Communities application is installed.

    • cell is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell where the Communities application is installed.

    Connector configuration install location Specify the LotusConnections-config at the WebSphere Application Server cell level as the location to install the connector configuration files.For example: WAS_HOME\profiles\profile\config\cells\cell\LotusConnections-config where:

    • WAS_HOME is the where WebSphere Application Server is installed

    • profile is the name of the WebSphere Application Server profile where the Communities application is installed

    • cell is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell where the Communities application is installed

  12. Click Next to continue.

  13. Review the summary information that you have entered. To make changes, click Back. To finalize the installation, click Next.

  14. Review the result of the installation, and click Finish to complete the installation wizard.

  15. Restart the WebSphere Application Server.


After installing the Confluence connector, you might want to enable trusted feeds from the Confluence server to Communities. For more information, see Defining trusted and nontrusted Web sites for Communities.

If you are installing the Confluence connector in a network environment, there are a number of steps that you need to perform to complete the networked installation. See Installing the Confluence connector in a network environment for more information.


Install the Lotus Connections Connector for Confluence

 

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