A great book about installing and administering Openfire has been released: Openfire Administration, by Mayank Sharma (a contributing editor at Linux.com). Some of the topics covered:
Installing Openfire
Administration of server settings and users
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP
Tuning Openfire for large numbers of users and high performance
Enterprise features like logging and auditing
Much more…
So far, I’ve only just started reading through the book in detail. The writing seems to be clear and detailed, while keeping a light-hearted tone. I also love the fact that the author includes lots of pictures – it makes understanding some of the administration tasks much simpler.
We’re thrilled to see the first book about an Igniterealtime Open Source project. If you get a chance to check it out, please let us know what you think.
I just received my copy of the book and while I haven’t read it yet I can say that Kerberos is not referenced in the index and SSO is only mentioned in passing.
I too have received my copy of the book and SSO and Kerberos are not covered in any detail at all. It also still refers to openfire as both opensource and commercial. It is a very good guide for basic setups though. The biggest fault I see with it and so many other documents on deploying openfire is that it leads people down the path of using the embedded database. I am aware that many people have used it with little or no problems, be when problems do arise then your hands are tied. External databases give much more flexibility in disaster prevention and recovery.
A great book about installing and administering Openfire has been released: Openfire Administration, by Mayank Sharma (a contributing editor at Linux.com). Some of the topics covered: