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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

Introducing WebSphere Application Server


IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is a software platform designed to provide a management environment in which J2EE applications can run securely. WAS performs this management function for various IBM software applications such as Sametime and Lotus Quickr J2EE. In the case of Sametime, each of the Sametime server elements that run under WAS, such as Sametime Meetings, Media Manager, and Proxy Server, are separate J2EE applications with their own rules, security, and behavior. It is important to know that WAS by itself does not provide any functionality to a user beyond what the application installed under it provides.

What does this mean? First, many things that a Domino-based Sametime administrator may expect to see are not part of WAS. There is no mail engine; if you wish to send internet email from an application you must tell WAS where to find a SMTP server so the application can use it to send the email. Similarly, there is no built...