Reviewing the checklist for deploying audio and video

Review this installation checklist before installing audio and video features.

Table 1. Deployment Summary
Checklist for deploying audio and video
Deployment type	These instructions deploy a non-clustered Media Manager in the intranet.
Sametime® product required	Sametime Communicate, for one-to-one video and voice chat Sametime Conference, for continuous presence, multi-way video chat
Review system requirements	IBM® Sametime 9 System Requirements
Review the release notes	IBM Sametime 9 Release Notes®
Review planning documentation	Planning for Media Manager services Extending audio and video to external clients and mobile users Policy planning Determining which installation packages you need Security planning for extranet access WebSphere proxy servers and virtual hosts
Complete capacity worksheets	Complete Capacity and sizing planning along with geography planning.
Complete installation worksheets	Use the Sametime audio and video worksheets to identify DNS-registered host names, database names, IP addresses, ports to open, and credentials.
Assign fully qualified host names to computers	Ensure that all host names can be resolved in DNS. If DNS is not available then list all fully qualified server names and IP addresses from all servers in the hosts file and publish this file to all servers.
Not covered by this deployment	These instructions do not cover instant messaging, meetings, external access to chat or meetings, or steps for expanding your deployment for high availability and failover.