Users Guide September 29, 2006

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................4
Why Dimdim Web Meeting? .........................................................................................4 Typical Dimdim Web Meeting.......................................................................................4 Different entities in a Dimdim web conference ...........................................................4 Bandwidth Requirement: ..............................................................................................5 Supported Platforms:....................................................................................................5

SERVER INSTALLATION & ADMINSTRATION .................................................6

Installing the Dimdim Web Meeting Server .................................................................6 Starting & Stopping the Dimdim Web Meeting Servers............................................14

INTRODUCTION Why Dimdim Web Meeting?

In todays business environment with globally distributed workforce, it is not realistic to have face-to-face meetings with all participants present in one place. Dimdims web meeting solution enables you to conduct online meetings over the internet easily and economically. This leads to productivity gains and increased Return on Investment as your attention is focused on where it should be - on conducting your business - and Dimdim takes care of the rest.

Typical Dimdim Web Meeting

Using Dimdim a presenter, say Alex, can share his presentation, applications and even his desktop with other attendees spread across the world. The attendees: Jaya, Maria, Takumi & Yamato need only an internet connection and a browser and no installation of software or configuration of firewall or proxies is needed. They can see and talk with each other as if they are sitting next to each other.

Fig 1: Typical Dimdim Web Meeting Topology

Different entities in a Dimdim web conference

The different entities involved in this setup are as follows: Presenter: The person who is showing the presentation, application or desktop. In order to stream his voice and video the presenter needs a microphone and web cam. As of now the supported platforms for the presenter are: Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000 or higher. The Presenter also needs the Flash plug-in to be installed on the browser which can be obtained here. He needs installation permission on his machine because when he needs to install an ActiveX plug-in which captures the desktop image etc.

Attendee: The person who is seeing the presentation and interacting with the Presenter through Dimdim web meeting. The attendee as of now needs Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000 or higher with Flash plug-in installed on the browser. The attendee can also use Firefox on Lunix, Mac, or Windows. Dimdim Server: This is the Dimdim web based application that is responsible for taking data from the Presenter and forwarding it to the Attendees and vice versa. Depending on the usage patterns the configuration of the machine will vary but it is safe to assume that it will need to be much more powerful than a Presenter or Attendee machine.

Bandwidth Requirement:

Fig 2: Dimdim Broadband requirements

Supported Platforms:
Presenter: Internet Explorer 6.0 (with Flash) on Windows XP/2000/2003 Server or Workstation Attendee: Internet Explorer 6.0 (with Flash) and FireFox 1.5 (with Flash) on Windows XP/2000/2003 Server or Workstation and Linux & MAC OS X too. Dimdim Server: Windows 2000/XP/2003 with minimum 1 GB RAM and 200 MB free Hard Disk space.

SERVER INSTALLATION & ADMINSTRATION Installing the Dimdim Web Meeting Server
Dimdim Web Meeting Conference Server can be downloaded from Dimdim Project on SourceForge.net (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176809) Once you have downloaded the file and saved it on your hard disk. Please double click on the Dimdim Conference Server Installer you will be shown a screen as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Opening file Security Warning Please click on the Run button to proceed with the installation.

Figure 4: Dimdim Web Conference Server Installation Initial Screen Click on the Next Button to advance to the next screen.

Figure 5: Dimdim Web Conference Server Installation Licensing Screen Click on the I Agree button to agree to the Licensing terms and proceed to the next screen.

Figure 6: Dimdim Web Conference Server Installation Choice of components to install Please click on Next Button to proceed to the next screen

Figure 7: Dimdim Web Conference Server Installation Location of Installation

Choose the directory for installing the software and Click on Next Button to proceed.

Fig 8: Dimdim Web Conference Installation URL configuration The Dimdim URL field is the URL to which Presenters and Attendees will come to schedule, start or join a meeting. Please make sure that the URL you specify here is visible to all the people who are required in the meeting. The URL consists of the IP address and the port number. We will discuss the issues regarding IP address or machine name here and the port number issues will be explained in the next point. o If you have a globally visible static URL (say www.xyz.com or 72.232.197.100) please specify that here. o Else if all of the participants in the meetings are going to be from inside your intranet you can specify a URL or IP address valid within the intranet. For example: http://192.168.0.3 o If you are trying to test Dimdim Web Meeting Server on your machine you can specify your local machines URL. This can be done in the following ways: Localhost or http://127.0.0.1: This is typically done as the local hosts IP address might change as it is assigned through DHCP.

http://192.168.0.3: In this case if the IP address of your machine changes you will be unable to access the server with the old IP address. Whatever port number you specify here should be open for all the participants in the meeting. For example: If you specify port 8080 here, the participants should be able to reach it and at the same time it should be a free port to which the Dimdim web meeting server can bind to. If you dont specify any port number it is assumed as 80. Example URLs would be: o http://xyz.com:8080 o http://demo_machine:9080 o http://localhost o http://127.0.0.1:9999 o http://xyz.com

Fig 9: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Choice of number of Streaming Servers Streaming Servers in Dimdim Web Meeting Server do the backend work of capturing data from Presenters and publishing it to other participants of the meeting. In this screen the number of Streaming Servers is decided. This number depends on the number of participants in a meeting, number of simultaneous meetings, length of meeting, RAM of the machine on which the Dimdim Web Meeting Server is installed and other parameters. As of now, please use the default value. In later versions this screen will be of much more use.

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Fig 9: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Configuration of SMTP Parameters Dimdim uses external SMTP servers to send invitation emails from the Presenter to Attendees for Dimdim web meetings. This screen is used to specify the parameters related to the SMTP server. Please use your SMP server and enter the parameters of your SMTP server. For test purposes you can use the Default SMTP Server values to use Dimdim.com SMTP server. Do check for availability of the default server through your network before using it. You can check for its availability by using telnet on smtp.atlarge.net on port 25 On Windows: Click on Start and then on Run Type cmd Type telnet smtp.atlarge.net 25 If you are able to connect then the port is accessible

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Fig 10: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Java Virtual Machine Installation Choose the directory to install Java and click on Install button to install and proceed to the next screen.

Fig 11: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Installation progress

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Fig 12: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Final Screen Check the check box and click on Finish button to finish installation and start the conference server.

Fig 13: Dimdim Web Conference Installation Browser with Presenter Options

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Starting & Stopping the Dimdim Web Meeting Servers

To start Dimdim Web Meeting Server: Go to Start -> Programs Click on Dimdim Conference Server Click on Start Dimdim Conference Server To stop Dimdim Web Meeting Server: Go to Start -> Programs Click on Dimdim Conference Server Click on Stop Dimdim Conference Server

Fig 14: Starting and Stopping Dimdim Servers

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