Connecting clients to the new Community Services DNS
Configure an IBM® Sametime® Connect Client to communicate with a Sametime server that is listening for HTTPS connections using the host name (DNS) and port that you specified in the HTTPS tunneling settings for the server.
About this task
Every Sametime Connect Client located outside of the firewall requires this configuration to tunnel through the firewall to the Sametime Community Services.
Procedure
For each Sametime Connect
Client, configure
the following settings in the Sametime Connect
Client tab:
Option | Description |
---|---|
Host | Type the new DNS that you mapped to the IP address that will
be used for the Community Server. For example, if your base DNS
for the server is
That is the name you should type here. |
Community port | 443 |
Use proxy | Select this setting. |
Use HTTPS proxy |
Select this setting and enter the host name (community-sametime1.example.com )
and port (443 ) on which the Sametime Connect Clients
connect to the HTTPS proxy. |