Client configuration

Note: This is only required for AOL AIM traffic. No client configuration is required for IBM Lotus Sametime chat logging.

Once your firewall and proxy server configurations are in place, you need to make sure your clients connect to the IMtegrity Proxy Server as their login server instead of the default AOL login server "login.oscar.aol.com".

For example, if the DNS address of the IMtegrity Proxy Server is "imtegrity.example.com":

IBM Lotus Sametime Connect client AOL settings:

AOL Instant Messenger client settings:

Note: Is is important that you not configure the clients to use a proxy server. All AOL AIM client connections to the IMtegrity Proxy Server must originate directly from each end user's system (i.e not pass thru another proxy server first), as the IMtegrity proxy server requires unique IP addresses from each user.

Note: If you want to test connectivity by installing a Sametime client or AOL AIM client directly on the Sametime server itself, you must provide the servers local address as the actual IP number (i.e. 125.5.15.2, etc.). Do not provide the DNS hostname or "localhost" or the local loopback address ("127.0.0.1") as this will result in connectivity errors on the server itself.

Other configuration options (without having to touch every installation)

You can configure your internal DNS servers to remap the "login.oscar.aol.com" name to the address running the IMtegrity Proxy Server. For example, if the IMtegrity Proxy Server address is "imtegrity.example.com", you can define "login.oscar.aol.com" as an alias name for "imtegrity.example.com". This way, you won't need to manually change each client configuration and you are also sure that users do not reconfigure their clients to circumvent the IMtegrity Proxy Server and the chat logging entirely.

If you cannot reconfigure or change the internal DNS:

For new IBM Lotus Sametime Connect client installations, you can use the Sametime Client packager to pre-configure the "Connect.ini" file. The value which needs to be updated is:

[Aim Connectivity]
Server Host=imtegrity.example.com

For AOL Instant Messenger clients, you can send a registry merge module to each user which they can start to update the new AOL AIM setting in the registry. The registry key which needs to be updated is:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\America Online\AOL Instant Messenger (TM)\CurrentVersion\Server]
"DefaultHost"="imtegrity.example.com"
"DefaultPort"="5190"
"Host"="imtegrity.example.com"
"Port"=dword:00001446