You can remove microblogging functionality from your deployment
by disabling the microblogging service reference in the LotusConnections-config.xml file.
Microblogging is enabled by default in IBM® Connections.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files, you must use the wsadmin client.
See Starting the wsadmin
client for information about how to start the wsadmin command-line
tool.
About this task
Disabling the microblogging service in the LotusConnections-config.xml file
automatically removes all the features provided by the service. The
options that enable users to post status updates are removed from
the product user interface, and the indexing process associated with
the microblogging service is also disabled.When you disable microblogging:
- Users cannot post status updates in IBM Connections
- Users cannot post messages to other users' profiles or to communities
- Status updates cannot be searched from the Search user interface
Note: Existing status updates are not removed from the user interface,
and are still visible in the Home page, Profiles, and Communities
applications.
Procedure
To disable microblogging in your deployment, complete
the following steps.
- Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the IBM Connections configuration files:
- Enter the following command to load the IBM Connections
configuration file: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")
If you 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, you must select the node where the file is stored.
This information is not used by the wsadmin client when you are making
configuration changes.
- Enter the following command
to check out IBM Connections
configuration files:
LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory","cell_name")
- Optional: If you want to find out the current value of a property, you
can list the current configuration settings and values by using the
following command: LCConfigService.showConfig()
- To disable microblogging capabilities across IBM Connections, enter the following command:
LCConfigService.updateConfig("microblogging.enabled","false")
What to do next
Check
the configuration files back in during the same wsadmin session in
which you checked them out. For more information, see the Applying
common configuration property changes topic.