Run the installation program on the computer on which you plan to install an IBM®
Sametime® Document Converter Server.
About this task
Running document conversion on Microsoft™ Windows™ produces
the best results. See this table for information about the quality
of document conversion on different platforms:
Table 1. Quality
of document conversion by operating system
Operating System |
Oracle Outside In |
Symphony® odp |
Ghostscript for pdf |
Windows |
high quality |
high quality |
high quality |
Linux™ |
medium quality |
medium quality |
high quality |
AIX® |
low quality |
not applicable |
not applicable |
Procedure
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On the computer where you will install Sametime
Document Converter Server, log on as root (AIX or Linux) or as the system administrator (Microsoft
Windows).
- Find the
software packages you need to download.
- Download
the packages.
- Extract all downloaded packages.
- Install IBM Installation Manager.
-
Install IBM
WebSphere Network Deployment.
- If Installation Manager is not running already, start it
now so you can install Sametime Document
Converter Server:
- 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 Document Converter
Server installation package:
- 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 the Sametime Document Converter
Server, and open the STMeetings 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 Document
Converter Server.
- Click OK.
- Back in the main Installation Manager window,
click Install.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
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Select IBM Sametime Meeting Server 9.0.1 as the feature to install and
select Use Sametime System Console to install. Click
Next.
- Specify the location of the 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 Document
Converter Server 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.
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Start the Document Converter Server by completing the steps in the following procedure: Starting and stopping servers running on WebSphere Application Server.