Designating the Sametime Proxy Server to be used for awareness

When users join an online meeting, IBM® Sametime® displays each user's name and status in the meeting room. To enable this feature, designate the Sametime Proxy Server that is used for awareness so the Sametime Meeting Server can access that information.

Before you begin

The Sametime Proxy Server must be installed and configured. Single Sign-On must be configured between the Sametime Meeting Server, Sametime Proxy Server, and the Sametime Community Server. For more information about the set up of single sign-on, see the topic Configuring the Sametime Community Server for single sign-on.

Procedure

  1. First, determine the ports used by the Sametime Proxy Server that will provide awareness in meetings:
    1. On the computer hosting the Sametime Proxy Server, log in to the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console as the WebSphere administrator.
    2. Click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers.
    3. In the list of application servers, click STProxyServer.
    4. On the Configuration page for the Sametime Proxy Server, click Ports.
    5. Locate the port values for the following two settings and write them down for use in the next step:
      • WC_defaulthost
      • WC_defaulthost_secure
    6. Cancel out of the Configuration page.
  2. Back in the navigation tree, click Sametime System Console > Sametime Servers > Sametime Meeting Servers.
  3. In the Meeting Servers list, click the Meeting Server that you want to update.
  4. Click the Server Configuration tab.
  5. Click Edit.
  6. Add the host name and the secure host name of the Sametime Proxy Server to the Meeting Server's configuration:
    1. Locate the meetingroomcenter.stProxyAddress configuration key.
    2. In the Configuration Value field, type the fully qualified host name of the Sametime Proxy Server that will be used for awareness and append the WC_defaulthost port as shown in the example:
      http://stproxy_host.example.com:9082
    3. Now locate the meetingroomcenter.stProxySSLAddress configuration key.
    4. In the Configuration Value field, type the fully qualified host name of the Sametime Proxy Server that will be used for awareness and append the WC_defaulthost_secure port as shown in the example:
      https://stproxy_host.example.com:9445
    5. Click OK.