Connecting clients to a Community Server cluster

After you have created and named an IBM® Sametime® Community Server cluster, ensure that the clients can connect to the cluster by adding the cluster name to a field in each user's Person entry in the LDAP directory

The configuration fields that affect client connectivity are:

  • The "Instant messaging server" field of the user's Person document in the Domino® Directory, or a Sametime cluster field you have added to an LDAP directory.
    Note: Sametime uses this field to ensure that a user connects to one of the Sametime servers in the Community Server cluster. This field serves the same purpose as the "home Sametime server" field in the single-server approach to Community Server deployment that was used in previous Sametime releases.
  • When the Sametime servers are configured to connect to an LDAP directory on an LDAP server (as in this example), the administrator can do one of the following:
    • Manually add a field to the LDAP directory to contain the name of the Community Server cluster. The added field must exist in the Person record of every Sametime user in the LDAP directory.
    • Use an existing field in the LDAP directory to hold the name of the Community Server cluster. This field must exist in the Person record of every Sametime user in the LDAP directory. In this case, you must specify the cluster name in this field in the LDAP directory.
      Note: This example uses the "Instant messaging server" field of each user's Person document in the Domino Directory as the field that holds the Sametime cluster name. The field you select to hold the name of the Community Server cluster must be specified in the LDAP Directory-Authentication-Name of the Home Server attribute setting in the Sametime System Console. In this example, the "Instant messaging server" field was specified when you configured the connection to the LDAP server when installing the Sametime servers.

      To complete the example, you can enter the cluster name in the "Instant messaging server" field of each user's Person document in the Domino Directory on the Domino LDAP server. Note that you defined the cluster name when creating a cluster document in the Configuration database.

      If you used a server name as the cluster name, you can enter the server name in the Domino hierarchical name format (sametimeserver1/west/acme) when entering the name in the Instant messaging server field of the Person document.