Topic: Jabber AIM transport working?

[Patrick]

Is anyone currently running the Jabber AIM transport on their SME/e-smith server, and if so does the AIM transport work?  I have setup SME v5.1.2 with the jabber rpm package listed off the HOW TO site, but I cannot seem to access AIM users.

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Tips/things to check?

[Jon Blakely]

Patrick,

I have just tried out the AIM transport. I hadn't used it for a while. It still works fine.
Do the other transports work??.

Jon

[Patrick]

Jon,

I attempted to run the MSN transport and contact a MSN Messenger session, but was unable to make the connection.  So either my SME Jabber server is not setup correctly (i.e., ports being blocked) or I have not configured my Jabber client (Exodus) correctly.

Do you have any tips as to what I can do to check the connectivity/configuration at the server?  Do I need ports open on the Cisco router/firewall?  Maybe I cannot run Jabber server in "Server" only mode?

Thanks for your reponse.  I'm sure there are some simple answers, and most likely it is a configuration issue.

Regards,
Patrick

[Patrick]

Jon (and others),

Turns out I did not have my Jabber client configured properly to use the AIM/MSN gateway on the Jabber server.  So now - it works.

I do have a few questions:

Is there a way to log all the Jabber-to-AIM and Jabber-to-MSN IM's at the Jabber server itself?  To use Jabber in a financial services firm there needs to be logging/auditing for all IM sessions.

During some testing today the Jabber server crashed twice.  It appeared to happen when AIM clients were trying to contact me to create a chat.  Is there a place to look (log files?) which will show what happened on the server?

Thanks,

Patrick

[Jon Blakely]

Patrick,

There are error logs available in /opt/jabber. There is also a record log but it only logs logins. I think there is a way of logging messages on the server. I will do some research and let you know.

Jon

[Patrick]

Jon,

I checked out the error logs.  The only thing that is happening is that there is a DNS error (since this machine is not running a FQDN) saying that jabber.org cannot resolve the name of my host.  Would that be causing the Jabber services to crash though?  Seems unlikely to me.

As for logging, if you know of a way to log all IM traffic which flows through the Jabber server that would be great.  I would love to be able to save some money and use Jabber instead of Lotus Sametime, but without the server based logging that will not be an option.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Patrick