Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server is integrated with Oracle Communications Calendar Server to provide automatic pop-up reminders to Instant Messaging Server users for both calendar events and tasks. This chapter describes how to use this feature.
This section contains information about Calendar pop-up reminders.
Users can receive Instant Messaging pop-up reminders for upcoming events and tasks on their calendars. To enable these pop-up reminders, the following must occur:
You must configure Calendar Server to use a notification service (JMQ), and the Instant Messaging server to enable pop-up notifications.
The end user must enable calendar reminders in Instant Messaging Server.
With pop-ups enabled, when an impending event or task nears, the alarm set in the notification service causes Calendar Server to send an email notification and Instant Messaging Server to display a pop-up reminder.
If configured, Instant Messaging Server pop-up reminders follow this architectural flow:
The Instant Messaging Server JMS subscriber subscribes to Calendar server events and notifications in the notification service, either JMQ or ENS.
Calendar server publishes an event or task notification in text/xml or text/calendar format to the notification service.
The Instant Messaging Server JMS subscriber receives the calendar event or task notification and then generates a message in text/calendar format.
The Instant Messaging server sends the message to the calendar owner, if the end user is online.
If the recipient is available, Instant Messaging Server generates an HTML pop-up reminder on the end user's desktop based on the message. If the recipient is not available, Instant Messaging Server discards the message.
See "Configuring Calendar Agent with Calendar Server" for server-side configuration.
To configure Calendar pop-ups to work in a server pool deployment, you only need to configure one server's Calendar agent in the pool. A pop-up will be delivered for each configured Calendar agent in the pool.
The Calendar agent is an Instant Messaging Server component that provides pop-up functionality to Calendar and Instant Messaging users. In addition, using tools provided with Instant Messaging Server, you can start, stop, restart, or check the status of the Calendar agent as well as monitor its activity through log files. See "Overview of Stopping, Starting, Refreshing, and Checking Instant Messaging Server Components" for more information.
See "Managing Logging for Instant Messaging Server" for information about Calendar agent logs.