Many people ask how do I create a SmartCloud instance for the Collaboration Quickstart

1. IBM Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business v3.0

2. Navigate to https://www-147.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise/dashboard
Message of the Day
Review and
Click Close
Enter Your IBM ID
Enter Your Password
Click Submit

3. You might see
more notifications
Review and Close
Dashboard
View of your
Current
Instances
Main Area for
Managing Instances
Account Details
Specific
Support
and
Documentation

4. Add
Instance
Dashboard showing
Your instances
Click to get more details
Instances are
Running
instances
of your
software
You rarely if ever use Images,
Storage or Service Instances.
More detail in Documentation

5. Select Preferred Data Center
Closest to You and Your Customer
Filter to find
*uick*
Click Filter

6. Click on 3.0
Image
Click NextQSI 3.0 contains IBM Connections 4.5 CR1,
IBM Domino 9.0 HF68 and IBM Sametime 8.5.2

7. Enter the Name of Your
Instance It can be changed
No Key Listed?
The Next Chart shows
how to create one
Click
Minimize
Local Disk
Speeds Up
Deployment
Click Next

8. Just in Case … There is no key listed.
Enter a Name in the
Popup window
Click Generate a
new key pair
Click to download
key
Save the Key to
Permanent Storage
It is generated only
once!
Click Close

9. Enter the password for
administrating the QuickStart
Enter the password for Users
Sets all the Sample Users to it Click Next

10. Review the Settings
Click Next

11. Select I Agree
Click Submit

12. Click Return to
Control Panel
Click on
The Instance

13. You won't get a hostname / IP until the instance is copied in place from the master image.
Once you get the IP/Hostname, the service takes approximately 15 to 30 minutes to provision.
You'll get Connection Refused warning from SSH / Putty until it's ready.

14. Instance
Specific
Details
Instance
Controls

15. Navigate to
https://hostname
Click Add
Exception
Click Get
Certificate
Click Permanently Store
Click Confirm
Security Exception

16. Navigation
For QSI
Click Homepage

17. Notice the different Port
Click Add Exception
Click Confirm Security Exception

18. Login as Frank Adams fadams@renovations.com
Use your User Password Use IBM Connection Mail
It supports Embedded Experiences
Use Sametime Web Client
Use the
Activity
Streams