Sunday 9 June 2013

Installing Ignite’s OpenFire and Spark (IM server and client)

When testing HuBot, I needed an IM server and client

Since the HuBot install article that I was following recommended OpenFire and Spark, I decided to give it a test drive.

Here is how I installed and set it up on a local VM.

The first step was to get OpenFire from the Ignite's website:

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which I did using this O2 Platform script:

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... that when executed downloaded the zipfile, started the openfire.exe and opened the default browser at localhost:9090

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I then configured OpenFire to use an Embedded Database

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... to use the default profile settings:

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... and to use this default admin account:

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Which completed the setup:

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... with no errors in the OpenFire popup process

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Next I used to login page:

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... which didn't accept the email as username (see above), so I had to use admin

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... to login and access the admin interface:

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As per the HuBot Install article, we should create a couple accounts and a room:

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So, here is the developer account:

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... here is the hubot user:

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... and here is the hubot room:

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With the OpenFire IM server up and running, the next step was to install the Spark IM client:

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Which I did using this script:

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... which downloaded the installer

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... executed it

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... and launched it

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Using the developer account previously created, I was able to connect to the OpenFire server:

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Here is the Spark post login UI:

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Here is OpenFire's Client Sessions page (showing the logged in Spark user)

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Finally, to  access the HuBot room we previously created, I clicked on the Conferences tab

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Then on the conference.{computerName} option:

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... then on the HuBot option:

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... and we can see that we have a fully operational client and server IM setup :)

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