If you did not use the correct userid during installation (Install Sametime 9 on Linux : the Meeting Server) for the Recording server, or you want to change it later on, you need to make changes in several locations :

  • the Meeting Server configuration
  • the J2C Authentication Alias
  • the Sametime Server application’s role mapping

Errors indicating the issue

The errors that indicate something is wrong, include these rather cryptic messages:

[1/27/14 12:15:57:755 CET] 00000104 RecordingsDAO I  Recording id[fa72ac1a-a137-4dd1-b07c-8ad7f19cc5e2] updated to starting on serverId[7f90a14dbac74b15041f6a680c0cf9e9]  
[1/27/14 12:15:57:763 CET] 00000104 RecordingSess I  initialize recordingId[fa72ac1a-a137-4dd1-b07c-8ad7f19cc5e2] sessionId[f9deff4d-28c3-4abf-b71f-e5b2136cebde]  
[1/27/14 12:15:57:765 CET] 00000104 RecordingSess I  initializeRealTimeSession sessionId[f9deff4d-28c3-4abf-b71f-e5b2136cebde]  
[1/27/14 12:15:57:773 CET] 00000104 RecordingSess I  initializeRealTimeSession sessionId[f9deff4d-28c3-4abf-b71f-e5b2136cebde] user[strecbot] from JAAS  
[1/27/14 12:15:57:960 CET] 000000f9 ServletWrappe I com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper init SRVE0242I: [Sametime Meeting Server] [/rtcauth] [/token_check.jsp]: Initialization successful.  
**[1/27/14 12:15:58:029 CET] 000000f9 RTCServlet  W  RTC05 User[127.0.0.1] failed to join, exception[Non-bot user attempting to join as bot]**  
[1/27/14 12:15:58:034 CET] 00000104 RecordingSess W  connect sessionId[f9deff4d-28c3-4abf-b71f-e5b2136cebde] failed to join session  
[1/27/14 12:15:58:035 CET] 00000104 RecordingSess W  initialize recordingId[fa72ac1a-a137-4dd1-b07c-8ad7f19cc5e2] sessionId[f9deff4d-28c3-4abf-b71f-e5b2136cebde] failed to init RealTimeSession

Another things to check are the location of the recorded files (in the Meeting Server configuration)

recording.capture.rootPath

It should be a valid path on your OS, so I set it to /opt/IBM/recordings. The OS user was of course needs access to it.

Perform changes

Prepare a user in LDAP or in the FileBasedRepository

The user must have a mail attribute set (your WAS Administrator user likely does not have that set).

Sample LDIF

This is the LDAP user I created :

dn: cn=strecbot,ou=system,O=ISSC  
objectClass: top  
objectClass: person  
objectClass: organizationalPerson  
objectClass: inetOrgPerson  
cn: strecbot  
sn: Sametime Bot  
mail: strecbot@tb.issc.ibm.com  
uid: strecbot  
userPassword::

Meeting Server configuration

Open the ISC and go to :
Sametime System Console/Sametime Servers/Sametime Meeting Servers.

  • enter the name of your user

Image:Sametime 9 Meeting Server : recording on Linux : change the username

  • Save the configuration by clicking OK

Meeting Server configuration

  • Still in the ISC, goto Security/Global Security
  • Open the section “Java Authentication and Authorization Service”
  • Click the “J2C authentication data” link
  • Edit both recorderAuthData and stRecordings
    userid : strecbot
    password :
  • Save the configuration

Map the userid ot the [botUser] role

  • Still in the ISC, goto Applications/All Applications
  • Click “Sametime Meeting Server”
  • Click “Security role to user/group mapping “
  • Find the botUser entry and click “Map Users” . Map the strecbot user to the mapped users.

Image:Sametime 9 Meeting Server : recording on Linux : change the username

  • Click OK and Save the changes.
  • Sync the nodes and restart the Meeting Server

Recording is now successful

This allows for the recording to take place.

However, without a separate Renderer server on Windows, you won’t be able to see your recordings….
The Meeting Renderer is only supported on Windows, so the only way to check if the recordings are made if you’re on Linux (like me), is by checking the recording.capture.rootPath directory you configured earlier.

Unfortunately, I currently don’t know of a way to play these files, so the only thing to check is if they’re there…