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• Installing the IBM Edge for User Space Load Balancer for use with IBM Sametime components

  As of version 8.5.2 of IBM Sametime, it is recommended that all Sametime components use the IBM Edge Components User Space Load Balancer (IPv4,IPv6), which is the strategic Load Balancer for IBM (IBM is attempting to deprecate the Legacy Load Balancer).

• IBM Sametime 8.5.2 security features

  IBM Sametime 8.5 has many new components that leverage IBM WebSphere and IBM DB2 infrastructures. This paper provides an overview of the security features of the new WebSphere 8.5.2-infrastructure-based offerings along with security-related best practices for the existing components.

• Integrating Java desktop applications with IBM Sametime using the Sametime Proxy Server

  Introduced with IBM Sametime version 8.5, the Sametime Proxy Server is a Web-based application server allowing applications to securely integrate with IBM Sametime and benefit from its real-time collaborative features, using a simple HTTP-based Representational State Transfer (REST) API and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format.

• IBM Sametime Unified Telephony: User provisioning for reliability testing

  As part of our regular Quality Assurance control, the IBM Sametime United Telephony (SUT) Systems Verification Test (SVT) team executes reliability tests on SUT environments. This article describes the process used internally within IBM to generate test users for reliability test cases.

• Clustering an IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Gateway environment

  This article describes a worked example detailing the cluster process for a two-node horizontal cluster in an IBM® Sametime 8.5.2 Gateway environment, in which both the Deployment Manager and the Sametime Gateway Primary node are installed on a single server, with the Secondary Gateway node on a separate server.

• Changing the host name of an existing IBM Sametime server

  This white paper describes how to copy a complete set of IBM Sametime servers and get them working with new network host names. These instructions are useful if you want to change your network topology, or if you want to clone an existing environment

• Installing a telephony control server for IBM Sametime Unified Telephony 8.5.2 in a virtual environment

  Learn the detailed steps for installing a telephony control server (TCS) for IBM Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) 8.5.2 in a virtual machine (VM) environment

• Deploying an IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Network Address Translation environment

  This article explains a scenario for deploying an IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Network Address Translation (NAT) environment.

• Manually setting up a full IBM Sametime 8.5.2 environment

  This article describes the procedure for manually setting up a full IBM Sametime 8.5.2 environment, including the System Console, Community Server, Meeting Server, Proxy Server, Media Manager, and Advanced Server Sametime products.

• Enabling SSL in IBM Sametime: A complete guide

  This white paper outlines the steps required to enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for an IBM Lotus Sametime component based on IBM WebSphere Application Server. It focuses on installing the trusted root and intermediate root certificates, and on generating and installing a SSL certificate signed by a Certificate Authority. In addition, we'll cover the steps to enable the Sametime Community server to connect to LDAP over SSL (LDAPS).

• Deploying a scalable IBM Sametime environment for small-to-medium businesses

  This white paper explains how to deploy a full-fledged, small-to-medium-business (SMB) IBM Sametime environment that is scalable, based on the updates made to the Sametime Installer in version 8.5.1.