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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

WebSphere Application Server file locations


WAS has a very specific directory structure that matches many of the concepts we previously discussed. Because the directory structure is standardized, it makes it easy for you to find the information you need by traversing the directories.

Appserver or WebSphere home directory

Our starting point is always what is referred to in IBM documentation as the WebSphere Directory. This is actually the directory, called appserver, where WAS is installed.

In a standard Linux install, this directory is found at: /opt/ibm/websphere/appserver.

In a standard Windows install, we strongly recommend modifying the default path on install from: c:\program files(x86)\ibm\websphere\appserver to instead be<drive>:\ibm\websphere\appserver.

There are several reasons for this, not least of which is that the WAS directory structure is deeply nested underneath the appserver location, and you may hit Windows file path length limits (which can be limited to 256 characters...