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Add Sametime awareness to Lotus Connections


Overview

If you have Sametime 8.0.1 or later and the Profiles feature deployed, you can enable presence awareness in Lotus Connections.

This is an optional configuration.

When you enable presence awareness in Lotus Connections, a person's online status is indicated by a set of icons and an associated status message that is available from the person's profile. Presence awareness tells you whether the person is available to chat, busy in a meeting, or away from their computer. You must have the following software enabled to be able to add presence awareness to Lotus Connections:

You cannot enable Sametime awareness if you configured Lotus Connections to prevent e-mail addresses from being displayed. If you hide e-mail addresses, Sametime awareness will not function properly.


Add Sametime awareness to Lotus Connections

  1. Edit the profiles-config.xml file to indicate that you want to enable awareness. Start the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for details.

  2. Use the following commands to access and check out the Profiles configuration files:

    1. Access the Profiles configuration files:

    2. Check out the Profiles configuration files...

      ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("<working_directory>", "cell_name")

      where:

      • <working_directory> is the temporary working directory to which the configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use forward slashes to separate directories in the file path, even if you are using the Microsoft Windows operating system.

      • cell_name is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting the Profiles feature. This argument is required even in stand-alone deployments. This argument is case-sensitive, so type it with care. If you do not know the cell name, do one of the following to determine it:

        • Stand-alone deployment: See:

          WAS_HOME\profiles\profile_name\config\cells\

        • Network deployment: Type the following command while in the wsadmin command processor:

          print AdminControl.getCell()

      For example:

      • AIX/Linux:

          ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")

      • Microsoft Windows:

          ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")

  3. Edit profiles-config.xml

  4. Find the <sametimeAwareness> element, and then set its enabled attribute to true. For example:

      <sametimeAwareness enabled="true"/>

  5. Save and close the profiles-config.xml file.

  6. Check in the changed configuration files using the following wsadmin client command:

      ProfilesConfigService.checkInConfig()

  7. To exit the wsadmin client, type exit at the prompt.

  8. If you are using a Sametime client that is embedded in a version of Notes later than 8.0.2 (IFR1), configure Notes to display awareness information. To do so...

    1. Exit the Notes client.

    2. Open the plugin_customization.ini file in a text editor.

      By default, the plugin_customization.ini file is stored in the following directory:

        C:\notes\framework\rcp

    3. Set...

        com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.webapi/startWebContainer=true

    4. Save and close the plugin_customization.ini file.

  9. Stop and restart the WebSphere Application Server hosting the Profiles feature.

  10. Start the stand-alone Sametime client or Notes client in which Sametime is embedded.

    It is not recommended that you run more than one Sametime client on a single machine at one time. If awareness does not seem to be enabled in Lotus Connections, make sure you do not have an earlier version of the Sametime client running on your machine. If you do, stop the clients and be sure to restart the Sametime Connect 8.0.1 client or the Sametime client embedded in Notes 8.0.2 (IFR1) or later before restarting any other clients.

  11. Confirm that this procedure worked by accessing one of the Lotus Connections features, and then opening a person's business card. It may take a few seconds for the person's presence information to display the first time.


Administer all Lotus Connections features

 

Related tasks

Start the wsadmin client

 

Related reference


Common configuration properties


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