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Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.5 administration documentation
Administering
This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
Managing Sametime clients
This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.
Managing client types and logins
You can manage the manner and order of client logins to HCL® Sametime®.
Configuring allowed client types
You can define the types of clients that can connect to the HCL® Sametime® Community Server.

Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.5 administration documentation
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- What's new in HCL Sametime
  This section describes what's new in HCL Sametime® 11.5 and Sametime® Meetings 11.5.
- Checklist to deploy Sametime
  This section provides information on reviewing the checklist to deploy the Sametime clients.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing and configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
  - Managing Sametime clients
    This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.
    - Managing client types and logins
      You can manage the manner and order of client logins to HCL® Sametime®.
      - Configuring allowed client types
        You can define the types of clients that can connect to the HCL® Sametime® Community Server.
      - Configuring the preferred login list
        In Sametime 11, by default, persistent chat enables a user that is logged into multiple clients to receive instant messaging sessions across all clients concurrently. In an environment that does not support persistent chat and the single login type feature is disabled, Sametime uses a default login order to determine which client type should receive the instant messaging session. A preferred login list allows you to override the default order.
      - Configuring the single login type
        The single login type mode means that only one login per user is allowed. When a client attempts to log in to the HCL® Sametime® Community Server, the server checks to see if there are any existing logins of the same user, and disconnects them. Any client on the exclusion list is not disconnected, which is useful for users who want to run multiple clients simultaneously.
      - Sametime Client IDs
    - Connecting the Sametime® Connect client to the Sametime® Community Server
      The Sametime® Connect Client uses Server Communities preferences to connect to the Sametime Community Server for presence and chat features.
    - Sametime Client Configuration Options
      There are several methods to customize the user experience for Sametime clients. This section covers Expeditor based clients that are capable of leveraging the Expeditor Managed Settings framework. These clients include the Sametime client for Windows or Mac, and the HCL Notes embedded Sametime client for Windows or Mac. This does not apply to the PWA, web or mobile clients.
  - Starting and stopping servers
    This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.5 servers.
  - Managing policies
    Sametime policies allows administrators to control user access to features.
  - Meeting Server Configuration Files
    Meeting servers are deployed on Docker or Kubernetes. Review the appropriate section for your deployment.
  - Adding additional Sametime administrators
    Sametime Community server is installed on top of a Domino server. There are some administration and installation tasks that must be performed using the HCL Notes Client or HCL Notes Administrator client.
  - Enabling multi-tenancy on the Sametime Community Server
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the HCL Sametime® community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - MongoDB
    This section provides information relating to administering MongoDB.
  - Disabling persistent chat and MongoDB requirements
    HCL Sametime 11.5 deploys with persistent chat enabled which requires MongoDB. It is possible to remove the MongoDB requirement if persistent chat and chat logging is disabled.
  - Managing Sametime Meetings
    This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
- Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting and Support
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating and upgrading from an earlier Sametime release.
- Notices

Configuring allowed client types

You can define the types of clients that can connect to the HCL® Sametime® Community Server.

About this task

Follow these steps to specify the list of client types that are allowed to connect to the Sametime Community Server. This is an optional task. When using this setting, any client IDs that are not listed will not be allowed to connect to the Sametime® Community Server.

For more information on List of Sametime Client IDs, see Sametime Client IDs.

Procedure

Open a text editor on the Sametime® Community Server.
Open the sametime.ini file located in the Sametime® Community Server installation directory.
For example, the default directory in Windows™ is C:\program files\HCL\domino.
In the Config section, enter the client type IDs for the allowed client types in the VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES flag. If the flag is not specified or its value is empty, then all client types are allowed to connect to the server. It is a comma-separated list.
Note: Once the VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES flag is used, you must update the values whenever you add new client types; otherwise the new client type cannot log in.
[Config]VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES=130B,130A
Save the sametime.ini file.
Restart the Sametime® Community Server to commit the changes.

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