Install the IBM® Sametime® Video Manager on Linux™. The Sametime Video Manager must
be installed prior to installing the Sametime Conference Manager
or the combined PR+CF, depending on which of the two you are installing.
The Video Manager must be installed on a dedicated server.
Before you begin
Note that n-way calls are not supported by the Sametime Communicate offering,
so there is no need to install the Sametime Video Manager for
that deployment. If you want to support n-way calls with the Sametime Conference or Sametime Complete offering,
install both the Sametime Video
Manager and the Sametime Video
MCU.
Restriction: Do not change the installation path for the Video Manager. By default, the
Video MCU is installed in the /opt directory; this location is required for
proper operation of the server.
Procedure
- On the computer where you will install the Video Manager,
log on as root.
- Disable requiretty by completing the
following steps:
- Open a command window.
- Open the
vi
editor by running the following
command: sudo /usr/sbin/visudo
- In the editor, switch to Insert mode.
- Do one of the following:
- If the
Defaults !requiretty
statement appears
in the file, leave it alone.
- If the
Defaults requiretty
statement appears
in the file, change it to Defaults !requiretty
by
inserting the !
character.
- If there is no
Defaults requiretty
or Defaults
!requiretty
statement in the file, add the Defaults
!requiretty
statement.
- Save and close the file.
- From a command prompt, ensure that entering the following
command returns the correct, fully qualified host name of the server:
hostname -f
If the fully qualified
host name of the server does not display, your install may not work
correctly.
- Find the
software packages you need to download.
- Download
the packages.
- Extract all downloaded packages.
-
Install IBM Installation
Manager in the /opt directory.
This is the required location for Installation Manager. Installing into a different location
might result in a non-functioning Video Manager.
-
Install IBM
WebSphere Network Deployment.
- If Installation Manager is not running already, start it
now:
- Open a command window.
-
Change to the location where you installed Installation Manager:
/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
- Run the following command:
./IBMIM
- Set the repository location by completing the following
steps:
- In the Installation Manager window,
click .
- On the Preferences page, click .
- Add the repository for the Sametime Video Manager installation
package:
All Media Manager components use the same repository.
- On the Repositories page, click Add
Repository.
- On the Add Repository page, click Browse.
- On the Select Repository page, browse to
the location where you stored the extracted files for Sametime Video Manager,
and open the IAV subdirectory.
- Click the repository.config file to select
it, and then click Apply.
- Deselect any listed repositories that you will not use for installing
the Sametime Video Manager.
- Click OK.
- Back in the main Installation Manager window,
click Install.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Select a package group option and accept the installation
directory, then click Next.
Select Create
a new package group if you have not installed any other Sametime software on this
computer.
Leave Use the existing package group selected
if you are installing several Sametime servers on the
same computer.
-
Select IBM Sametime Media Server 9.0.1 as the feature to install.
The deployment plan determines which of the Media Manager components will be installed.
- Select Use Sametime System Console to install,
and then click Next.
- Specify the location of the IBM WebSphere Application Server,
and then click Validate.
- In the Common Configurations window,
supply values for connecting to the Sametime System Console:
- Provide the fully qualified host name for the computer
you are currently using, which is the same name you used when you
created the deployment plan for this installation.
Do
not use an IP address or short host name.
- Click Validate to log in to the Sametime System Console.
- When you are logged in, click Next.
- Select the Sametime Video
Manager deployment plan that you will use now, and then click Next.
- Review the deployment settings, then click Validate.
When the button changes to Validated, click Next.
- Review the summary, then click Install to
start the installation.
- When installation is complete, click Finish.
- Click Exit to close the Installation
Manager.
- Prevent performance problems by increasing the maximum
number of open file descriptors on the server:
- Open a command window.
- Run the following commands to increase the maximum number
of open file descriptors:
ulimit -n 65536
echo "root hard nofile 65536" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "root soft nofile 65536" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
- Start the Video Manager by completing the following steps:
- Stop the WebSphere Application
Server using the following command:
WAS_install_root/profiles/Profile_name/bin ./stopServer.sh STMediaServer -username wasadminuser -password password
- The solidDB® must
be running before you start the Video Manager. Start solidDB first using the following command:
/opt/solidDB/soliddb-7.0/bin> solid -c /opt/solidDB/soliddb-7.0/eval_kit/standalone/
- Start the WebSphere Application
Server and the Sametime Video
Manager using the following command:
WAS_install_root/profiles/Profile_name/bin ./startServer.sh STMediaServer