Hi, I noticed that Jabber allows you to join a room of any name so long as there are no spaces in the name. This also appears to be case insensitive. These room names then appear in the "Service Discovery" (in Psi) and appear to be impossible to delete. What is the protocol for choosing a room name in which to meet for a particular venue?
I also understand (or misunderstand!) that Jabber will eventually be integrated into the AGTk (or is it already?). What room name will the toolkit be using for the meeting rooms? If no protocol is present, I would suggest the name of the venue without any spaces e.g. University of Manchester (CSAR) would be UniversityOfManchesterCSAR. Any thoughts? Andrew :) ============================================ Access Grid Support Centre, RSS Group, Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK Tel: +44(0)161-275 0615 Email: andrew.row...@manchester.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson Sent: 17 September 2004 19:59 To: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov Cc: ag-...@mcs.anl.gov Subject: [AG-TECH] Jabber Available! Hello everyone, Here's some information regarding Jabber, the chat tool that we will be using for SC Global. For general information about Jabber, go to http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.php For those of you who are already familiar with Jabber, here's the quick list of servers and ports: General AG Jabber Server: jabber.mcs.anl.gov, port 5222, port 5223 for SSL Group Chat: conference.mcs.anl.gov, (there is already a room named meadow) Now here's the detailed instructions for the rest of us.....:) You can download a jabber client at: http://www.jabber.org If you follow the link on the left column under Software called "clients", you will see a long list of jabber clients. The client that many of us are running is Psi, it runs on linux as well as windows, and it is freely distributed. You can choose whatever client you wish, however, if you are a beginner at this, you might want to stick with something that most others will have. The instructions that follow are for the PSI client.....you're on your own if you choose something else. Download and install the PSI client on your machine. When you get to the Choose Components screen, I disable the Automatic startup but you might want to have Psi fire up everytime you log in. The first time you launch Psi, you will see a window titled Open Profile. Select the "Profiles" button at the bottom of the window. The next window that opens is the Manage Profiles window. Select "New". The next window is the New Profile window. Type in a profile name (whatever you choose) and select "Chat". You can also enable emoticons here. When you are finished, click "Create". Back on the Open Profile window, the newly created profile is listed. Select "Open". This brings up an annoying little "Useful tips Page" which you can disable...and two other windows. The Psi window will be your main menu type of window. In the New Account window, type in a name you would like to call your account. Select "register this account" if this is the first time you created this account. On the Register Account Page, type in a Jabber ID (a name you want to be called on Jabber in the format usern...@jabber.mcs.anl.gov) and a password. Select "Manually Select Server Host/Port" and type in host box jabber.mcs.anl.gov, and in the port box 5222. If you select "Use SSL encryption (to server) use the following port: 5223. Click "register" when you are finished. Once you have created your account, go back to the Psi main window. Your name should appear in the list next to a gray star (this means you are offline). At the bottom of this window are two buttons. The status button on the lower right displays your current status. Click on this button to display a drop down menu. When you select "Online" you will be connected to the jabber server at Argonne, and you little star will turn yellow. The other button will give you additional menu options. Select join group chat to join everyone else in the meadow. Type in host name "conference.mcs.anl.gov" , room is "meadow", and any nickname you would like to be know by in that room. This will bring up a window that might look familiar to you....just type in the lower box, it will be display your text in the top box along with other peoples text. The list on the right will show you who's in that room with you. Try this tool out - we will be using it during the testing sessions from now on, so you will have lots of practice before SC Global! These instructions will be available from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/jabber.html --Ivan PS -- I'm sending this so you all consider this official, but all the work of writing these instructions was done by Cindy Sievers. I'll take the blame for any mistakes, but you should all appreciate the work she put into making this happen. She's kept it from getting stuck in my queue. Thanks Cindy!
