Chapter 1 Configuration Files and Directory Structure

This chapter provides information about the configuation files you use to administer Instant Messaging. Familiarize yourself with the locations of these files before making changes to your deployment’s configuration.

This section describes the Instant Messaging server directory structure and the properties files used to store Instant Messaging operational data and configuration information.

Instant Messaging Server Directory Structure

Table 1-1 shows the platform-specific directory structure for the Instant Messaging server.

Table 1-1 Instant Messaging server directories
Description	Solaris Location	Windows Location
Programs Files These files include the native executable files, the library files in bin or lib directory, the shell scripts in sbin directory, the java classes in classes directory, and templates files in lib directory.	instant-messaging-installation-directory/SUNWiim The default value for the instant-messaging-installation directory is /opt	instant-messaging-installation-directory The default value for the instant-messaging-installation directory is c:\Program Files\Sun\InstantMessaging
Server Configuration files These files are in the instant-messaging-configuration directory and include the iim.conf file and a subdirectory which contains all the server-wide access control files.	By default, the instant-messaging-configuration directory is located at: /etc/opt/SUNWiim/default/config Note: The installer creates a symbolic link from /etc/opt/SUNWiim/default/config to instant-messaging-installation-directory/SUNWiim/config.	instant-messaging-installation-directory\config
Instant Messaging Server Data. These files include the configurable directory for the files generated by the server at runtime. It includes the end user data in the instant- messaging-database directory, which contains information such as the user and news channels directory. It also contains the server and multiplexor log files, in the log directory.	instancevardir/default The default value for instancevardir is /var/opt/SUNWiim	instant-messaging-installation-directory\
Instant Messenger resources. These files contain HTML documents and jar files used by Instant Messenger. The top-most directory contains the locale-independent resources, and the locale-specific directories contain the localized resources.	instant-messaging-resource directory The default value for this resource directory is: /opt/SUNWiim/html	instant-messaging-resource directory


Note	On Linux, the primary server package name is soim, and all the above Solaris Location paths mentioned in Table 1-1 should be replaced by soim. For example, replace SUNWiim with soim.

Instant Messaging Server Configuration File

Instant Messaging stores all configuration options in the iim.conf file. For more information on the parameters and their values stored in this file, see Instant Messaging Configuration Parameters.

Instant Messaging Data

Instant Messaging server stores the following data used by Sun Java System Instant Messenger in the runtime files directory, which you specified during the installation, and is indicated by the iim.instancevardir parameter in the iim.conf file:

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