Configuring Live Update

The Live Update feature enables the Sametime® Connect client to automatically receive updates.

Before you begin

Configure an HTTP server which can be accessed by all IBM® Sametime Connect clients. The Live Update feature is not available for Embedded clients (running in IBM Notes).

About this task

Configuring the Live Update feature requires you to modify Sametime policies. For information about policies, see Creating policies to control user access to features.

Procedure

  1. Download the Live Update package sametime.standard.all_201xxxxx-xxxx.tar from the client installation package.
  2. Extract the downloaded package.
  3. Create a metadata.xml file and save it in the same directory that contains the extracted package.

    The following example shows the content of a metadata.xml file. 

    <Metadata>

  <build id="9.0.1.20151124-1547" name="sametime.standard.all_20151124-1547" size="424" timestamp="20151023" expiretime="20160610">
      <description>this build has all features that support mac windowns and linux, version is sametime.standard.all_2015124-1547</description>
</build>

</Metadata>
    Note: In the metadata.xml file, ensure that the value of the build id is the same as the name of the folder where the file is stored.
  4. Configure an Instant Messaging policy and specify a value for the Sametime update site URL setting. The URL is the site where the client will search for a the metadata.xml file for a new live update.

    For example, if the URL is set to http://example.com/updates, the client looks for http://example.com/updates/metadata.xml and if a new version of the file exists the client starts the live update.

  5. If there is a new Live Update package, extract the package and then update the metadata.xml file to add a new build entry.