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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

Monitoring Sessions, Reports, and Usage Statistics


Once you stop jumping in excitement, you'll notice that your role as administrator doesn't quite end just now. In a support service environment, it's very common for team leaders to listen in on conversations, to provide input for an agent's performance assessment and review. In this section, we'll give two users the power to secretly listen in on any conversation. We'll also look at Fastpath's reporting tools for browsing through chat history.

Snooping Super Users

Users who can secretly listen in ongoing conversations are known as room monitors, in Fastpath speak. To add one (or more) to a workgroup, head over to Fastpath | Workgroups Manager | View Workgroups and select your workgroup. In the extended workgroup settings, click on the Room Monitors link.

In the page that opens you see a huge textbox where you can add as many users as you wish. All of these users will have the power to listen in the conversation of other users, with their...