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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

Configuring The Helpdesk


Before we put our helpdesk online, let's tweak it a little to add some users. We'll also add some canned responses to help agents quickly respond to certain questions.

Canned Responses

Let's begin with canned responses. Canned responses are predefined responses defined in anticipation of typical queries. For example, for a support company, URLs for a product's online help documentation, FAQs, forum boards, mailing lists, and so on are best handled as canned responses.

To add a canned response, head over to the Workgroups Summary (Fastpath | Workgroups Manager | View Workgroups) and click on the workgroup for which you want to define canned responses. In our case, this would be the helpdesk workgroup. Click on Canned Responses in the expanded workgroup menu in the left column.

This opens up the page that'll help you add and categorize canned responses. Categorizing responses helps agents find a response quickly. To create a category, click on the Add Category link...