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Openfire Administration

By : Mayank Sharma
Book Image

Openfire Administration

By: Mayank Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>Openfire is a free, open-source and full featured Jabber-based Instant Messaging server.<br /><br />This book is a guide to setting up Openfire, tweaking it, and customizing it to build a secure and feature-rich alternative to consumer IM networks. The features covered include details about setting up the server, adding and handling users and groups, updating, and extending the service with plug-ins, connecting with users on external IM networks, connecting with external voice over IP solutions and more, with user-friendly instructions and examples so that you can easily set up your IM network.<br /><br />The book deals with several features of Openfire to streamline communication within an enterprise and beyond. It shows how to configure Openfire to allow only secured connections. It then explains how Openfire complements other existing services running on your network. Managing and fostering IM as a real-time collaboration and communication tool is what this book is about.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Openfire Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Creating a Helpdesk


In Openfire terminology, a helpdesk is referred to as a workgroup. Each workgroup has several members who are Openfire users inside the network. You can have multiple workgroups, and workgroups can share members. When a visitor on your website wants to talk to someone on the inside, he or she will have to select the chat icon for the corresponding workgroup. This request is then intercepted by the Fastpath plugin which looks up the settings for that particular workgroup and acts accordingly. In this section, we'll create a helpdesk workgroup and go over its settings.

Once the Fastpath plugin is installed, you'll notice an additional Fastpath tab in the top navigation bar in the Openfire administration console. When you click on this tab, it takes you to the Fastpath Workgroup Manager from where you can add, edit, and delete workgroups, as well as configure them.

By default, the plugin already lists a demo workgroup. To add a workgroup, click on Create Workgroup (Fastpath...