Selecting a TCP/IP address for your IBM i Sametime server

Determine which TCP/IP addresses are already defined on your system and decide which address you will use for your IBM® Sametime® server. You will also need to determine whether you need to define additional TCP/IP addresses to avoid conflicts between servers.

About this task

Follow these steps to select a TCP/IP address for the server.

Procedure

  1. First determine which TCP/IP addresses are currently defined for your system.
    • From any IBM i command line, type the following command and press Enter: 
      CFGTCP
    • On the Configure TCP/IP display, select option 1 to Work with TCP/IP interfaces and display a list of the currently defined TCP/IP interfaces.
  2. Verify that each of the TCP/IP addresses you recorded when you looked at the Host Table or ran the 'sh port tcpip' command is currently defined.
  3. Verify that the system has enough TCP/IP addresses defined so that you can assign at least one for the exclusive use of each of the following:
    • Your Sametime server
    • Each existing Domino® server
    • Each instance of the IBM HTTP server running on your system
  4. Contact your network administrator to assign additional TCP/IP addresses and host names if needed.
  5. Ensure that the new host names are also added to your Domain Name Server (DNS).
  6. Select the TCP/IP address you will assign to your Sametime server.
  7. Decide which TCP/IP addresses should be assigned to each existing Domino server and each instance of the IBM HTTP server.

    Record this information, as you will use it later to ensure that existing servers are properly bound to specific IP addresses so that their port usage does not conflict with your Sametime server.