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Openfire Setup

In OMF we are making heavy use of Openfire. This page documents the Openfire configuration options that affect OMF.

Installation

Server 2 Server connectivity

For both machines, check these items:

  • make sure port 5269 TCP is open in your firewall, double check from both machines using nmap
  • make sure the machine that runs openfire has a FQDN
  • set the XMPP domain during Openfire setup to the FQDN or change it later (xmpp.domain in System Properties)
  • if you changed the XMPP domain, delete the certificates in Server - Server settings - Server Certificates. Then generate new ones. Restart the HTTP server of openfire.
  • make sure the host name in your certificates matches the XMPP domain name and your FQDN
  • in Server - Server settings - Security Settings tick "Accept self-signed certificates" and set Server Connection Security to optional
  • Server - Server settings - Server to Server: enable the service
  • click "System Properties" on the left and add a new property named xmpp.server.permission and set its value to blacklist

Testing S2S

  • create a user on each side
  • install switchboard: http://mojodna.net/2009/07/16/switchboard-curl-for-xmpp.html
  • run "switchboard --jid --password 123 pubsub --server serverB.net create --node testNode"
  • check Sessions - Server Sessions for S2S connections
  • if the latter page doesn't load, check if you can access port 5269 TCP on the other machine
  • if there is still no S2S session, restart both openfires

Testing via IRB

  • cd to omf-common-5.3 directory
  • start irb
  • run
require "omf-common/omfXMPPServices.rb" 
x = OmfXMPPServices.new("1","1", "norbit.npc.nicta.com.au")
x.create_node("test","srv.mytestbed.net")
x = OmfXMPPServices.new("1","1", "srv.mytestbed.net")
x.create_node("test","norbit.npc.nicta.com.au")

Compatibility

  • This has been confirmed working between two Openfire 3.7 beta servers