Adding the Sametime Community Server to an IBM i Domino server

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

  1. Sign on to the system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ, *IOSYSCFG, and *JOBCTL special authorities.
  2. Stop the IBM Domino® server.
  3. On any IBM i command line, type the command ADDLSTDOM and press F4:
  4. In the Domino server name field, type the name of the Domino server where you will add Sametime.
  5. 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.

  6. 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.
  7. Complete the following fields (you may need to press the Page Down key to view these fields):
    • HTTP server port

      If you chose to allow HTTP tunneling, specify the port number on which the HTTP server will listen. The default is 8088.

    • Event server port
      Enter the port on which the Event Server service for this Sametime server should listen.
      Note: If you have more than one Sametime server installed on the same logical partition (LPAR) of your server, make sure the Event Server port is unique for each Sametime server.
    • Token server port
      Enter the port on which the Authentication Server service for this Sametime server should listen.
      Note: If you have more than one Sametime server installed on the same logical partition (LPAR) of your system, make sure the Token server port is unique for each Sametime server. Refer to the technote "Verifying each Sametime for IBM i server on system uses unique ports" for information on determining which Sametime ports are already in use. The technote is available at the following URL:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21212892.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

  10. 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.