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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 worksheets


The following are sample worksheets for preparing, planning, or for use during the installation of the Sametime server environment. These can be used as a reference and later as part of your server documentation.

Sametime server hostnames

You will have to frequently refer to the fully qualified domain name of your Sametime server during your install and will not be able to change the hostnames you choose post installation. You should arrange to have these added to your domain name server prior to the installation.

Note

Note that the Meeting Server and Proxy Server cannot have the same fully qualified hostname. Also, all servers need to share a domain for Single Sign-On to work across the environment.

Sametime server hostnames

 

SSC server:

 

DB2 server:

 

LDAP server:

 

Sametime Community Server:

 

Sametime Proxy Server:

 

Sametime Media Manager Server:

 

Sametime Meeting Server:

 

Sametime Advanced Server:

Sametime TURN Server:

 

Sametime Bandwidth Manager Server:

 

Sametime server information

Frequently, the Sametime or Domino administrators may not be the people managing the operating system of the Sametime servers. However, during the installation process, you may be required to restart the operating system. In addition, as you build the deployment plans for each server, you will be prompted to set an administrative username and password. This worksheet lists the operating system, administrative user ID, and passwords that you may use to log into the different server operating systems.

Sametime server information

   

Sametime server name

Operating system

Admin user ID

Admin password

SSC server:

   

DB2 server:

   

LDAP server:

   

Sametime Community Server:

   

Sametime Proxy Server:

   

Sametime Media Manager Server:

   

Sametime Meeting Server:

   

Sametime Advanced Server:

   

Sametime TURN Server:

 

N/A

N/A

Sametime Bandwidth Manager Server:

  

LDAP Server

The Sametime server architecture references an LDAP server throughout the installation process. Be sure that prior to installation, you have the proper hostname, bind credentials, and port necessary to access the server.

LDAP server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Bind credentials:

 

LDAP base query:

 

Bind credential Password:

 

Port:

 

LDAP server type:

 

Sametime server components

During the Sametime server installation, you will have many instances where you have to refer to the DB2 server, the SSC server, or many of the other Sametime servers. We are providing worksheets here for use during the server and the related DB2 database installation and configuration. Although we have listed only one table for DB2 server details, the full Sametime installation requires DB2 databases for many components. If you choose to install these databases on different DB2 servers or instances, we suggest you duplicate the following table as necessary.

DB2 server

 

Hostname:

 

DB2 admin ID:

 

DB2 admin password:

 

Port:

 

SSC DB name:

 

Meeting DB name:

 

Advanced DB name:

Gateway DB name:

 

SSC server

 

Hostname:

DB2 database name:

 

SSC/WAS admin ID:

 

SSC/WAS admin password:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Port(s):

 

Sametime Community Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

SSC hostname:

 

SSC admin ID:

 

SSC admin password:

 

Port:

 

HTTP Tunneling enabled: Yes/No

Sametime Proxy Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

Proxy IP to add to Community Server:

 

Sametime Media Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

 

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

Sametime Meeting Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

DB2 database name:

 

DB2 hostname:

 

Sametime Advanced Server

 

Deployment name:

Hostname:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

 

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

DB2 database name:

 

DB2 hostname:

 

Sametime Gateway Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Node name:

 

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

 

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

DB2 database name:

DB2 hostname:

 

Sametime Bandwidth Server

 

Deployment name:

 

Hostname:

 

Node name:

Cell name:

 

WAS app profile name:

 

Admin ID:

 

Admin password:

 

Port:

 

DB2 database name:

 

DB2 hostname:

 

Sametime TURN Server

 

Hostname:

 

Path to stavconfig.xml:

 

Port: