Has anyone here gotten the Cisco IM client to work with an Openfire server instance ? If so would you share your settings for both server and client please ?
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Iāve never used or even seen this client. Can you provide a link to its project page?
Cisco Jabber for Mac - requires login to actually download
It is normally used with a Jabber server Cisco distributes as part of their VOIP/SIP/etc solutions - which we have some of that deployed. I have done some minimal attempts to get it to connect but have not been successful. Next steps were to do some packet captures to see exactly what the client is doing, is it really just XMPP or XMPP plus proprietary stuff.
But I thought Iād also ask here in case someone else has tried this already.
show us what settings their GUI(if there is a GUI), or maybe configs, looks like.
usually connecting to a XMPP server should be no issue.
It is fairly limited for settings. Iām assuming āautomaticā is looking at SRV records in DNS but I have not confirmed that.
have you tried just typing your JID there? or also in the āuse the following serverā?
Yeah it just fails.
And it is doing SRV lookups in the automatic case, looking for some Cisco specific records. I didnāt see any XMPP traffic at all even when specifying the server.
When searching for the protocols that they support, I do get references to XMPP (on ports 443 or 5222), but Iām not sure how old this documentation is, and Iām not sure if what they call XMPP is compatible with the open standard.
Without some XMPP traffic to analyze, this is going to be a though nut to crack, Iām afraid.
Thanks - Iāll see if our Cisco rep is willing to answer some questions that might help.
Were they?
No luck yet - they are āresearchingā
From free messenger
Difference āJabberā / āCisco Jabber ā
Even though both have the same origin, āCisco Jabberā is not identical to the free āJabber (XMPP)ā. āCisco Jabberā is an implementation of Ciscoās XMP protocol for enterprise communications using Cisco devices. It is not open source and has received its own extensions from the Cisco company, which are not available to the general public.
Nevertheless, it is technically possible to exchange messages based on the āfreeā protocol with āCisco Jabberā. However, this federation (open collaboration) only works if the appropriate settings/shares are set up on the respective companyās own Cisco server.
Originally XMPP was developed by Jabber, Inc. Then handed over to XSF, and Jabber Inc was sold to Cisco.
Thanks - that makes sense and fits perfectly with how Cisco typically does things unfortunately.
I guess no smooth transition for us then. Thanks everyone.