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Securing Redis Traffic in HCL Connections with SSH Tunnels

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:00:00 +0200

At the moment I’m working with a customer to secure all traffic in HCL Connections. The target is to have only encrypted network traffic between servers.

Today I started enabling encryption to Redis. This is a documented process, but the documentation is outdated and incomplete.

Migrate MongoDB 5 to 7 for HCL Connections 8 CR9 update

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200

For HCL Connections 8 CR9, it is mandatory to update MongoDB to version 7. During my first migrations, I encountered some issues and would like to provide workarounds and additional troubleshooting tips to help others with this process.

Restart Orient Me pods after Internal Server Error

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 11:30:00 +0200

After rebooting the Kubernetes server for HCL Connections Componentpack, I sometimes see that Orient Me is not working and just shows:

{"error":{"statusCode":500,"message":"Internal Server Error"}}

Elasticsearch7 Update

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:21:31 +0200

CVE-2021-44228 was a very serious problem end of 2021, and we are still finding new occurrences, or security teams scan servers and find vulnerable log4j files. Don’t get me wrong most of these occurrences are not vulnerable any more, because the JVM is hardened like in the Elasticsearch 7 containers, or they use of the JVM parameter -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true.

Elasticsearch index creation problem

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:53:00 +0200

Today I activated Elasticsearch Metrics and Typeahead Search on my demo HCL Connections cluster.

To my surprise the indices weren’t created and I got errors on the wsadmin.sh commands.

SearchService.createESQuickResultsIndex()

I checked the Elasticsearch pods which showed a running state, but the logs showed following messages: