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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

Sample deployment scenarios


As you can see, there are a number of different ways you can implement your LDAP directory and authentication in Sametime 8.5.2. To help clarify the previous information, we will go over a few typical scenarios you might use in your environment.

Domino Directory as LDAP

The simplest and most common deployment scenario is to use a Domino Directory for authentication through an LDAP interface provided by the Domino server running the LDAP server task.

As an existing Sametime administrator using Domino for your Sametime directory, you may now want to extend the Sametime install to include other WAS-based Sametime 8.5.2 components such as the Meeting Server or Media Manager. Before you can do this, you must first change your Community Server to use LDAP instead of the Domino Directory for authentication as previously discussed. You will need to configure a server in your Domino domain to run LDAP in order to make its directory LDAP-accessible.

To enable LDAP in your...