Collaborative Services environment properties

 

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If the collaborative site requires optional configuration that is not accomplished by the tasks that you run on the IBM WebSphere Portal server to integrate IBM Lotus Domino and the Extended Products, we can modify the operation of the collaborative servers and portlets in various ways by manually editing the Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties file...

portal_server_root/shared/app/config/CSEnvironment.properties

CSEnvironment.properties contains the following information about the portal environment:

• A flag to indicate whether the Collaborative Services are being.
• Location, protocol, port and version of IBM Lotus QuickPlace server
• Location, protocol, port and version of Lotus Domino Directory server
• Location, protocol, port and version of IBM Lotus Sametime server
• Tuning settings specific to Collaborative Services.

 

Procedure

1. Edit CSEnvironment.properties

   To modify any Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties...

   • Stop the portal server
   • Locate the file in a location specific to the platform
   • Back up the file before editing it
   • Use a text editor to open and modify it
   • Restart the server

2. Set Lotus Sametime to use a Lotus Sametime token for user login

   By default, the credential settings in CSEnvironment.properties are set to use an LTPA token for user login. We can override the settings to use an internal IBM Lotus Sametime token instead.

3. Customize communication between Lotus Sametime and Collaborative Services for name resolution and clustering

   We can change the port through which the Lotus Sametime server should connect, the reconnect interval, and the timeout value.

4. Resolve the portal user's log-in name with the user name on the Lotus Sametime server

   The following setting is used for resolving name formats between two different types of user registries that use different schemas.

5. Enable awareness when Lotus Sametime authenticates with a native Domino Directory

   We can customize CSEnvironment.properties to support awareness when Sametime authenticates against a native (non-LDAP) Domino Directory, by specifying the delimiter character for distinguished names.

6. Configure contact information on person links

   When users click a person link, the Person menu displays a set of contact information about the selected person (such as telephone number) that we can configure through CSEnvironment.properties . We can specify the Member Manager attributes corresponding to fields you want to display in the person link contact information, and control the order in which the items of information appear.

7. Configure people awareness to work across Domino Directory and a non-Domino portal LDAP directory

   We can edit CSEnvironment.properties to support Sametime-based people awareness features in a portal site in which Lotus Sametime uses a native Domino Directory as the repository for Lotus Sametime user names, and the WebSphere Portal user repository is in a non-Domino LDAP, such as IBM Tivoli Directory Server.

8. Auto-detect user mail information from a secondary LDAP server

   We can set the Lotus Collaborative Services in the portal to detect users' mail file information from an additional (secondary) non-Domino LDAP user directory. For example, you may need to configure two directories if the organization has one for customers and one for employees.

9. Customize Collaborative Services user credentials for eTrust SiteMinder

   If you protect the portal and any of the Domino and Extended Products Portlets with Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder, set the Lotus Collaborative Services to use the eTrust SiteMinder token instead of the default LTPA token.

10. Tune performance of the Domino Directory

    If you are using Domino Directory as the primary (and only) LDAP server for WebSphere Portal, we can set the following property in CSEnvironment.properties to false to improve the performance of Domino Directory.

 

Parent Topic

Reference topics for collaboration

 

Related concepts

Integrate Lotus Domino and the Extended Products and Portlets into WebSphere Portal

 

Related tasks

Support automatic mail detection with an LDAP directory other than Lotus Domino

 

Related reference

Collaborative Services API
Lotus Domino server installation and server setup reference
Lotus Sametime server installation reference
Lotus QuickPlace server installation and server setup reference

 

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