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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide

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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide

Overview of this book

Sametime 8.5.2 delivers a state-of-the-art enterprise-ready instant messaging and meeting service. This Administrator's Guide navigates through the range of Sametime server components and features, providing you with the essential information required to install, administer and troubleshoot your Sametime 8.5.2 environment.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide cuts through the complexity of architecting, installing, and administering all the moving parts of the latest version of Sametime. With this book, you will be able to make the necessary decisions when it comes to choosing which server components you need and how to install them to get the most performance and maintainability from the software. Starting with an overview of Sametime 8.5.2, you will then dive into each server component. You learn what each one does, why it might be needed in your environment, and what you need to have in place to run it. By the end, you’ll have Sametime running and configured properly for your particular situation.With flexibility comes complexity-- but not with this guide. You’ll learn how different architectures are possible and how to prepare properly for the installation of Sametime. You’ll learn how to install the servers in the right order so that you can maintain and expand your environment in the future. You’ll also find out how best to monitor your Sametime environment for issues, as well as how to effectively troubleshoot those problems so that you can quickly get Sametime running again.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide is the perfect one-stop resource for learning important installation and configuration details quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
WebSphere Application Server-Related Resources

Sametime Bandwidth Manager Server


The Sametime Bandwidth Manager was introduced in Sametime 8.5.2 and is designed to help administrators control the network traffic consumed by audio and video services. Working in concert with the Sametime Media Server, the Bandwidth Manager can be configured with call rules that define everything from the codec used for an audio call to the frame rate for video traffic. The server monitors the audio and video being generated on the network and uses rules, defined by the Sametime administrator for bandwidth usage at each site, for links between sites and for users to customize each call as it is initiated. In this way, a call between two users at the same site can have different resource allocation than a call between users across sites. Similarly, the Bandwidth Manager can dynamically adjust the quality of audio or video assigned to a call during peak periods. It can also deny access to services entirely during periods of heavy bandwidth usage, informing...