Assigning users to a home Sametime Community Server

A user's home Sametime® Community Server saves the user's preferences and data. Each user connects to the home server for online presence (or awareness) and chat functionality.

About this task

After installing a new Sametime server, you can assign specific users to the new server by entering the name of the new Sametime server in the Sametime server field in each user's Person document. If you install multiple Sametime servers, you can assign different "home" Sametime servers for users in the community. Server-to-server Connections among the Community Services of the multiple Sametime servers ensure that all users in the community have presence and chat capabilities with all other users.

Each user's person entry in an LDAP directory must contain a field in which a user's home Sametime Community Server can be specified. You can either:

  • Add a new field to the LDAP directory to hold the name of each user's home Sametime Community server. This added field must appear in the person entry of every Sametime user in the LDAP directory.
  • Use a field that already exists in the person entries of each Sametime user (such as the email address) for this purpose.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console.
  2. Click Sametime System Console > Sametime Servers > Sametime Community Servers.
  3. In the Sametime Community Servers list, click the deployment name of the server with the connectivity information that you want to change.
  4. Click the Community Services tab.
  5. In the "LDAP Attributes" section, enter the name of the field within the LDAP person entries that contains the name of each user's home Sametime Community server in the Attribute used for determining the home server field.
    Note: The server name cannot have a comma.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Restart the Sametime Community Server for settings to take effect.