Synchronizing Sametime with Connections

You can synchronize IBM® Connections communities with IBM Sametime® communities just once, or set up automatic daily synchronization.

About this task

Integration and synchronization is "one-way": from Connections to Sametime. Therefore, users can see their Connections communities in Sametime Advanced, but they do not see broadcast communities in Connections. These communities cannot be edited in Sametime Advanced; they can only be edited in Connections.

Synchronization does not support HTTP redirection. If the Connections server is configured to redirect from one port to another, for example from HTTP to HTTPS, then synchronization fails.

You must be an administrator for both Sametime Advanced and Connections before you can synchronize the communities. Before you begin, you must grant a Sametime administrator access rights to Connections communities in the community.policy file. See the topic Granting an administrator rights to Connections 4.5 communitiesfor more information. This administrator must also be a member of the LDAP directory.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Sametime System Console.
  2. Click Sametime Servers > Sametime Advanced Server.
  3. Select the Sametime server.
  4. On the Administrative Settings tab, find the Connection settings.
  5. Select the protocol type.
  6. Type the fully qualified host name in Host name.
  7. Type the port number in Port.
  8. Enter the administrator user name and password. This is the administrator ID that was granted superuser rights to access Connections communities in the Connections community.policy file. See the previous topic, "Granting an administrator rights to access Connections communities."
  9. If you want to automate community synchronization so that it happens daily, select Enable daily community synchronization.
    The servers will synchronize daily at 2 AM in the time zone of the Sametime server.
  10. If you want to synchronize immediately, click Synchronize Now.