Limiting anonymous access

You can limit anonymous access to IBM® Sametime®.

About this task

By default, users can access chat rooms without logging in first, but they cannot access broadcast communities. Once users have logged in to Sametime they can access all the features that their licenses allow, including broadcast communities.

If you want to prevent these anonymous users from accessing any Sametime features, follow these instructions.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console.
  2. Click Sametime System Console > Sametime Servers > Sametime Advanced Servers.
  3. In the Sametime Advanced Servers list, click the deployment name of the server with the information that you want to add or change.
  4. Click the Administrative Settings tab.
  5. Under Anonymous Access, clear the Allow anonymous access check box.
  6. Click OK.

What to do next

Since anonymous users are not issued licenses, they are not counted in the number of licenses issued figure in the Counts page of the License Management view.