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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

Chapter 7. Collaborate Securely: Setting up Authentication and Securing your Sametime Environment

Now that you have your Sametime environment installed, you need to make sure you and your users can authenticate to Sametime and that you do so in a secure manner. We will describe how you can configure authentication for your Sametime systems. To do this, you need to identify a directory source that each of the Sametime server components can use. You also want to ensure that all the network traffic to and from your servers is also encrypted.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • How WAS and Sametime use directories for authentication

  • What is LDAP and why it is used with Sametime

  • How to migrate from Domino Directory to Domino LDAP

  • How to configure either Domino or Active Directory as a directory source

  • What are federated repositories

  • Using SSO for Sametime and other Domino and WAS servers

  • Configuring SSL for all server communications

Understanding WAS authentication

By itself, WAS has no single...