Getting Sametime and Quickr working together

Sametime and Quickr - working together.

I've spent the last few days trying to get Sametime and Quickr to talk. It's one of those things that I've been meaning to look at for a while, but I finally got some VM space to set up a new Sametime 8.0.1 server in the same internet and Notes domain as my existing test Quickr 8.1 server. Great I thought, just pop in sametime and click the buttons, Bob's your uncle, it should be up in an hour or so. Worst case, I'll have to look at this (which is a great resource for anyone wanting to do this, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have without it).

I had an existing sametime server, so what I wanted to do was just shut it down and reuse the server id on my new VM. So, away I went. New install of Domino 8.0.2, used the same server.id fired it up, worked like a charm. Shut down and install ST 8.0.1, fired it up - nightmare. I was getting bootstrap errors in the admin servlet. I hunted through the servlet.properties file and the domino.properties file, to no avail. I just couldn't see anything wrong. Anyway, I went off to the trusty ST forum on notes.net and found this 

http://pdcvsdevdwb01.ca.vic.gov.au/LotusQuickr/qsite/Main.nsf/h_RoomHome/4df38292d748069d0525670800167212/?OpenDocument

After following it through I managed to tame the beast and got it up and running. I'd really like to know how those lines went missing in a new install though!

Following that I went to the existing quickr server and set up it's bits to point to the new ST box. No joy. I kept at it, and eventually I got the magical green dot next to my name on Quickr. It's taken hours and lots of fiddling. It was all working great, but now it's stopped again. 

Next thing is to get all the existing pilot sametime users pointing to the new box.

Welcome to Domino Delivers

Hi there and welcome to the Domino Delivers blog. I suppose a little bit about why we're here might be in order.

My name is Nigel Roulston and I'm a Lotus Notes and Domino guy. There you go, I said it, loud and proud!

I've been an avid reader of and occassional commenter on the Lotus Blogosphere for a long time and I thought it was probably about time to put in my own $0.02.

I started working with Notes a long time ago - far longer than I really care to admit - way back when there were paintings on the cave walls and the web wasn't even a glimmer in Tim Berners-Lee's eye. The Notes version was 2  and I'd never seen anything like it. Lotus, yes actually Lotus, not IBM, was owned and run by Mitch Kapor, 1-2-3 was the flagship and Microsoft had just released Windows 3.0 or 3.1 or something. At that time I was working with the Australian Bureau of Statistics as a grunt level programmer hacking C code and PL/I. We very quickly moved from 2 onto Notes 3 (2 was never rolled out in the organisation), and we were at the time the largest installation of Notes in the world. Boy are things different now!

Since then, I've worked in private and government organisations as an in-house programmer, a programmer for hire, a consultant, and in management, so I've seen the good and the bad of most things Notes.

So, what's this blog going to be about? I'm not really sure at the moment. I think it'll be a mix of some Notes/Domino techy stuff along with a bit of general discussion. I'll try to keep the personal stuff out of it, but I'm sure some will creep in somewhere along the way. I might even use it as a forum to link to some of my other interests like photography, but on the whole, I'll try and make it pretty notes and domino centric.

Well, I think that's enough for a first post. Now I'm off to ponder what I'll do for the next one.