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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

Installing a Meeting Server DB2 database


The Sametime Meeting Server is another Sametime server component that requires a DB2 database to store its meeting information. You can use the same DB2 server that was used for the SSC, but you cannot use the same DB2 database as it has a different format than that required by the Meeting Server.

In the unzipped install files for the Meeting Server there will be a Databases directory, in which will be a CreateMeetingDB script. That script is used to create the Meeting database. Each Meeting Server must have its own Meeting database.

Log in to your DB2 server using your DB2 administrator account to run any of the database scripts. The script createMeetingDB runs from a command prompt and creates a meeting server database: CreateMeetingDB STMS db2admin

STMS is the name you want to call the Meeting Server database and db2admin is the account you created to administer the DB2 server.

The output of the script is a command window that can take up to 30...