Planning is critical to a successful deployment. Many deployment problems, growth problems, and capacity problems occur because not enough time is taken to carefully plan a deployment. Plan your IBM® Sametime® installation by determining features needed, reviewing system requirements, determining capacity requirements, and the servers and computers needed for your deployment.
Review this section before deploying the IBM® Sametime® clients to your users.
This section describes best practices, requirements, tips, and things you should know when planning for instant messaging and presence services, meeting services, web client services, audio and video services, broadcast communities and persistent chat rooms, including IBM® Sametime® services in the extranet for remote users and customers. Included in this section are several sample topologies, everything from simple internal meetings to voice and video for intranet and extranet users.
Determine the type of Sametime® deployment you need. Do you need a large enterprise deployment, requiring clustering for scalability, failover, and load balancing. Or, do you need a smaller deployment where you install everything on separate computers as a multiple-server configuration. If your deployment is small, do you only need to install your entire deployment on a single server? Use the information in this section to help you determine the size and scope of your Sametime deployment.
Sametime® system and infrastructure requirements include network planning, policy planning, password and parameter planning and planning for single sign-on.
When planning an IBM® Sametime® deployment, review the following security features and best practices to ensure that your clients, servers, and data are protected.
Review the following considerations before deploying the IBM® Sametime® Connect client or the Sametime Embedded client to your users.
Review the process for migrating or upgrading from your current version of IBM Sametime® to V9.0.1.