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Openfire Administration

By : Mayank Sharma
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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

The Agent's Perspective


All through this chapter we've been discussing the Fastpath service from the perspective of the administrator—how to set up a workgroup, how to add queues, routing rules, agents, and so on. So now you know what you as an administrator can do. But that's not the complete picture. There's the agent's side to the story as well, which plays a critical role in selling Fastpath to the management.

This section looks at the features and function available to an agent to help him or her do his or her job better.

  • Current chats: When signed into Fastpath, all agents can look at the ongoing chats. They can also look at the question and the agent answering the chat. Room monitors are the only users who can right-click on the ongoing chats and either join them to assist the agent, or join in stealth mode for monitoring purposes.

  • Queue activity: Let agents monitor their respective queues. Combined with the ongoing chats, the agents online, and the wait time, it lets users accept...