If IBM® WebSphere® Portal and IBM Sametime® are both authenticating
with the same LDAP server, SSO configuration is simple.
Before you begin
- Install WebSphere Portal and
configure it with an LDAP.
- Install and configure the IBM Domino® 8.5.2 server.
- Install and configure the Lotus Notes Administrator client.
- Install the IBM Sametime server
with the IBM Domino 8.5.2
server and configure the same LDAP you used with WebSphere Portal.
- Install the Sametime Proxy
server with the Sametime server.
Configure it to work with the WebSphere Portal server.
- Reboot the Sametime Proxy
sever and the WebSphere Portal server.
Note: Only users in the LDAP will have awareness functions.
About this task
Use the following steps to configure WebSphere Portal with
the Sametime Proxy server.Procedure
Configuring Sametime single
sign on to work with WebSphere Portal.
- Install WebSphere Portal Version 8.5.
- Log in to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Integrated
Solutions Console and click .
- Click .
- Set the single sign-on domain and save it to Master Configuration.
- From the main Global Security page, click LTPA.
- Enter a password for the token, then enter a path for the
token.
- Click Export Keys and then OK.
- Save to Master Configuration.
- Copy the key to the Sametime Proxy
server machine.
- Open the Address Book for the domain.
- Open the section. Open the Web
SSO Configuration twistie and delete the existing token.
- Click the Configuration tab. Click .
- Open . The Web
SSO Configuration for: page opens.
- Open .
- Enter the path and password for the key you created. The key imports.
- Set the domain starting with a period. For example, .rtp.yourco.com.
Note: There must be a period at the beginning of the domain.
- Choose the Domino server
name from the twistie. Choose the Domino Address Book as
the source.
- Set the token format to LtpaToken and LtpaToken
2.
- Click Save and Close to save the
token.
Creating the Resource Environment Providers
- Log in to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Integrated
Solutions Console.
- Click .
- Open the WP CommonComponentConfigService provider.
- Create the following custom properties if the are not already
created:
- cc.sametime.proxy.enabled
- Set the value to true.
- cc.sametime.proxy.scheme
- Set the value to http or https.
It must match the way your Sametime Proxy Server is
accessed.
- cc.sametime.proxy.host
- Set the value to the name of your server. For example, hostname.domainname.com.
- cc.sametime.proxy.port
- Set the value to the port of your server.
- cc.sametime.connect.client
- Set the value to false. If you set the
value to true Sametime Proxy
uses the Sametime connect
client which is installed on Sametime Proxy server machine.
- cc.sametime.proxy.version
- Set the value to 9.0.
- cc.sametime.proxy.includedock
- Set the value to true to show the Sametime
web client dock.
- Save to Master Configuration.
- Log in to WebSphere Portal as
a Sametime user.
- Navigate to the page with the Sametime Web 2.0 Contact
List portlet.
- Edit the page properties and set the profile to the custom
profile you created.
- Log in as a user in the LDAP and open the page with the Sametime Web 2.0 Contact
List portlet. Click . The portlet shows that the user is online
and you can use other Sametime Web
2.0 Contact List functions to see other online users.