This guided activity takes you through the steps of creating
a deployment plan, which collects information that pre-populates installation
screens for IBM® Sametime® Community Server.
Before you begin
If you are using this guided activity to install Sametime 8.5.2, you must
follow the version 8.5.2 documentation in the Sametime wiki to ensure
that the instructions are correct for your deployment.
If you
will install the Sametime Community
Server using a deployment plan, the following servers must be installed
and running before you create the deployment plan with this guided
activity:
- LDAP server
- IBM Domino® server, hosted
on the computer where you will install the Sametime Community Server
Tip: Find the most up-to-date help, and translated
versions of the help, in the product documentation published on
IBM Knowledge Center.
About this task
Follow these steps to create a deployment plan on the Sametime System Console.
The deployment plan stores configuration settings that are used when
you run the installation program for Sametime Community Server.
Procedure
- Plan a product installation.
In the Install
Sametime Community Server guided activity, click Create
a New Deployment Plan, and then click Next.
- Deployment Name.
Type a name for the deployment
plan, and then click Next. The name should
be unique and descriptive. It is helpful to include the product, such
as stCommSvr. The name can be up to 256 characters
in length, is not case sensitive, and can include special characters
as well as spaces.
- Deployment Product Version Selection.
Select
the product version that you want to install, and then click Next.
- Connect to Domino Server.
Provide information for connecting to the Domino server, and then
click Next:
- In the Host Name field, type
the fully qualified host name of the Domino server
that will host the new Sametime Community
Server.
- In the Port field, leave the
default value (80) unless you are using another port for the Domino HTTP server.
- In the Domino User ID field,
type the existing Domino administrator's
user name.
Use the common-name portion of the ID as
in Thomas Watson, not the full hierarchical
name that includes slashes. The Sametime System Console
validates the administrator credentials before proceeding.
- In the Password field, type the
password associated with the Domino administrator
account.
- Connect to an LDAP Server.
Select the LDAP
server that is used by your Sametime deployment, and
then click Next.
- HTTP Tunneling.
To allow Sametime clients to make
HTTP-tunneled Connections on port 80 to a server with a single IP
address, click Enable HTTP Tunneling, and then
click Next.
Selecting this feature increases
the possibility that users in restrictive network environments can
exchange data in chats on a community server that is extended to the
Internet.
- Deployment Summary.
Review the summary page,
and then click Finish.
The deployment
plan is ready to be used for the server installation.