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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

Understanding WAS authentication


By itself, WAS has no single directory for an application to use when setting up authentication. The access to an application is granted through the directories you configure WAS to use for authentication. All applications installed in the same cell and that use the same Deployment Manager will use the same directories. There are four types of directory configurations in WAS:

  • Local operating system registry

  • LDAP server

  • Federated repository

  • Custom repositories

A local operating system registry uses the directory for the operating system where WAS is installed. For example, if you install WAS on a Windows 2008 server, the local registry would be any users and groups defined locally in Windows on the install machine.

LDAP server is another type of directory configuration. Even though there is no built-in LDAP server under WAS, you can configure the WAS directory and authentication mechanism to point to an external LDAP server. WAS then uses that server as your...