To set up an IBM® Sametime® Community Server
running on IBM i, provide the
necessary information, such as the directory type and ports.
About this task
Follow these steps to set up the Sametime Community Server.
Procedure
- Sign on to the system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ,
*IOSYSCFG, and *JOBCTL special authorities.
- Stop the IBM Domino® server.
- On any IBM i command
line, type the command
ADDLSTDOM
and press F4:
- In the Domino server
name field, type the name of the Domino server where you
will add Sametime.
- In the Directory type field, select which type of directory Sametime will use. You must
select *LDAP if you want to use the Sametime System Console
to administer this server.
- If you chose *DOMINO, skip to the next step.
- If you chose *LDAP, the following fields are
displayed so you can provide the basic information that enables Sametime to connect to the
LDAP server:
- Name
Enter the fully qualified host name of the LDAP server
that Sametime will use.
Do not specify the TCP/IP address.
- Port
Enter the IP port that Sametime will use. The default
IP port for LDAP Connections is 389.
- Bind distinguished name (DN)
Enter the distinguished name of
the LDAP directory entry that the Sametime server will use
when binding to the LDAP directory. This is an optional parameter.
If not specified, ensure the LDAP server is configured appropriately
for anonymous access from a Sametime server.
- Bind password
If you specified a Bind distinguished
name (DN), enter the password associated with it.
- Administrator name (DN)
Enter the distinguished name of an LDAP
administrator who has authority to browse the LDAP directory. It is
used when configuring policies. This parameter is optional and defaults
to the same value as the Bind distinguished name.
- In the HTTP Tunneling field, type either *YES or *NO and
press Enter to display additional parameters.
Note: This option enables Sametimeclients that operate
behind restrictive firewalls to connect to the Sametime server and use
the presence, chat, screen-sharing, and broadcast features of Sametime.
- Complete the following fields (you may need to press the
Page Down key to view these fields):
- Press F10 for additional parameters.
For the Start Domino server
field, specify whether or not you want to have this Sametime server start when
the setup is complete.
- Press Enter to run the command.
As Sametime is added to the Domino server, you will
see a console screen that shows the progress of adding Sametime to a Domino server. When
a message is displayed that the addition of Sametime is complete, press Enter.
- If you did not choose to start the server during setup,
start the Domino and Sametime Community Server
now.
Results
The LDAP connection information is stored in a Directory Assistance
database on the Sametime Community
server. This database is normally created by ADDLSTDOM and named da.nsf.
If a Directory Assistance database already exists on the server, then Sametime does not create
it and the database may be named something else. The name of the Directory
Assistance database can be found in the server document (Basics tab).The
LDAP information you provided in this task only allows Sametime to connect to the
LDAP server. When you complete the LDAP configuration after installing
the Sametime Community
Server, you will enable Sametime to
search the directory and authenticate web browser users.
What to do next
If you did not provide the correct LDAP information in
this task, your Sametime server
will be unable to connect to the LDAP server and Sametime will not start.
Usually, the underlying Domino server
will start with errors but you can still access the directory assistance
database to make the necessary changes. Once you have corrected the
LDAP connection information, restart the server.
If the Sametime startup failures
cause a more serious problem and you are not able to access the Directory
Assistance database, remove "staddin2" from the "Tasks" list in the Sametime server's notes.ini file,
and restart the server. After making the necessary configuration changes,
put "staddin2" In the "Tasks" list and restart the Sametime server.
When you start the Sametime Community server
it will automatically start an XVFB server (X Virtual Frame Buffer)
that is used when converting files for display in meetings. If a Sametime Meeting Server
is deployed on the same system as the Community Server, the Meeting
and Community servers will share the XVFB server. If no meetings will
be hosted on the system, you can prevent the Community Server from
starting the XVFB server by editing the meetingserver.ini file
in the server's data directory and changing the "DISPLAY=" value to
*NONE. After saving the file, restart the Community Server.