topic Re: Here are the basic settings: in Collaboration Applications

Cisco Jabber Client for Linux

mike — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:07:47 GMT

Are there any plans to have a Cisco Jabber client on linux?

Roadmap questions cannot be

Jaime Valencia — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:56:07 GMT

Roadmap questions cannot be addressed at CSC, post in a partner forum, or reach your SE/AM for this.

I've seen that reply before.

mike — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:58:50 GMT

I've seen that reply before. That does not answer this very simple question, nor does it tell me what to do to find the answer. Can you please try and be more helpful.

Thanks!

Mike,The larger body of use

David Hailey — Mon, 04 May 2015 19:37:30 GMT

Mike,

The larger body of use case and development for Jabber has centered on Windows and mobile iOS and Android devices. That's not to say that there isn't a contingency of customers that want a Linux client but, as of today, there is no "Jabber" client for that platform. However, I've heard this question asked in a few different forums and the answer thus far has typically been one or both of the following:

1) There is a Jabber SDK, which could potentially be used to custom develop an application.

2) Use 3rd-party XMPP client (e.g. Pidgin)

As for an official answer on "will there be in the future" with a yes/no/maybe and/or a possible timeframe, you would need to reach out to Cisco or your trusted partner as roadmap items cannot be discussed without having a non-disclosure agreement in place. That's what Jamie is getting at in his response.

D. Hailey

NetCraftsmen, LLC.

Thank you for that excellent

mike — Mon, 04 May 2015 19:43:07 GMT

@Hailey, Thank you for that excellent answer! Very helpful indeed.

As long as there is no Cisco

michaeljt1 — Thu, 07 May 2015 12:20:40 GMT

As long as there is no Cisco Jabber client for Linux, is there any currently known solution for making POTS calls through Cisco infrastructure from a Linux system?

Option 2 would be great, even

dapellegrino — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:15:29 GMT

Option 2 would be great, even preferred. Is there any documentation on connecting Pidgin or other XMPP clients to a Cisco Jabber service?

Here are the basic settings:

mike — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:13:31 GMT

Here are the basic settings:

Protocol: xmpp

connect port: 5222

file transfer proxy: proxy.eu.jabber.org

connection security: use encryption if available

The only problem we had was with the self-signed cert. I had to download the jabber x509 certificate (different from the normal Apache SSL cert on that system) and add it to my ~/.purple/certifcates/x509/tls_peers directory.

Get the cert by doing:

$ openssl s_client -connect your-server:5222 -starttls xmpp < /dev/null

Obviously using a real cert would solve the issue too.

HTH

~mike

Re: Here are the basic settings:

thichand — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:36:37 GMT

I am not able to connect to Cisco Jabber on Ubuntu. Can you please help me on this

Re: Here are the basic settings:

collinks2 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:57:52 GMT

Hello,I have a smilar problem.how do you download/upload the certificate to pidgin? I have downloaded using "the export option " from the web browser but its still unable validate the certificate.

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

guenterhof — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:36:43 GMT

In times like these (home-office caused by corona) everybody needs
"smart connection."
It is not acceptable that CISCO does not have a Jabber client for Linux.
I worked as a programmer several years for Windows
apps and when the demand for Apple apps also increased
I just compiled Apple programs from the Windows source with a cross compiler.
This was much more difficult than today, because the hardware base
at that time were different: Windows with Intel CPUs and Apple was using 
Motorola 68xxx - nowadays both have the Intel i5, i7 series in use.
A Android and a Mac version (BSD clone) is available - there is no reason
not to compile it for Linux - I think CISCO has one or two programmer 😉
to make this possible. A Jabber version for "RedHat Enterprise Linux" 
without any support would be a perfect step.

thanks
Günter

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

collinks2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:48:41 GMT

Hi,

You are right, Gunter. Cisco needs to develop jabber client for Linux and webtrc to replace Cisco Jabber guest. I have asked questions on this but i was referred to download pidgin which has not worked for me.

The irony of it is that cisco uc applications were built on linux platform .

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

guenterhof — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:03:46 GMT

I totally agree. As a former developer I can only say that's a shame
when you develop for unix-like systems (android, mac os) AND the main
systems are "linux" BUT for Red Hat Jabber Client is
zero development and is put off for years.
I understand that it's not possible to develop Jabber for every
linux derivate. Oracel SQL DB supports RED Hat and Debian -
minimalistic - but - there IS support

We as customers should no longer accept being left out

My callmanager has 1600 devices used by scientists and 20%
of them uses Linux - and this week our offices were closed
due to corona virus - so 300 asked me for a jabber client
to use it at home office.
300 times to say NO - what a great week - for collaboration???

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

collinks2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:53:07 GMT

What a great challenge especially during this era of corona virus? Try to see if you can use the pidgin. I have tried to installed on my ubuntu but it didnt work. It might work for you as others claimed it worked for them.

Have you thought of jabber guest? You can create call links for them. It is going to be complex.

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

guenterhof — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:46:31 GMT

Yes, I not only thought of both - I tried them - it's may be a possible
solution for "normal" companies where you have very fixed dependencies
but not for a small university with 34 research instituts - which now
had to work
at home. they all need help to get their home office to get work and so
they could
help each other using jabber chat and remote desktop - last but not at
least telephony

- only the linux clients are ...

stay healthy

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

collinks2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:44:26 GMT

Have you thought of cms?

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

guenterhof — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:32:31 GMT

It is not only a question of thinking but also of money 😉
cms, tms, ... and the competition never sleeps
Skype for Business, eduMeet, Zoom, Teamviewer ...
yess, you can have it all - but more administration, much
more functions, much more money

and there is Jabber
- not THE better tool
- but at your fingertips
- and simple

thank you for the discussion

Re: As long as there is no Cisco

jamesc — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:44:38 GMT

Cisco Jabber runs in WINE on Linux, I've tested it with MRA registration and direct registration against CUCM, audio calling works, so does hunt group login/logout and voicemail however Text chat is broken. WINE's RICHEDIT20 implementation is incomplete, You can receive text messages from other Jabber users but when you type a message it only sends the first letter of what you've typed. If someone wants to patch WINE to fix the text issue it'd be a viable option for use as a Linux client. I already use the UCCX script editor through WINE and RTMT natively on Linux. Both work without issues. Linux is not officially supported by Cisco for UCCX editor or Jabber so don't bother hitting up TAC for support when things go wrong. You could throw money at Codeweavers if you require support for software development/testing. A Linphone Softphone can also register against Cisco Call Manager as a third party SIP device and can make/receive calls. There's a few guides on the net, but basically you create the phone and associate a digest user with it and put the credentials in the end user account which you then put into the Linphone client.

Re: Mike,The larger body of use

PatrickFromBulpros — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:29:29 GMT

Hey guys,

I don't know if it is still of interest. My company BULPROS (CISCO Partner) has developed such a client (FIMBUR). You can use it on premise or as SaaS. It's already used by RWTH Aachen University.

You can check it out here:

https://bulpros.tech/fimbur/

Some features:

- Web RTC audio and video calls
- Initiating and receiving audio and video calls with Cisco CUCM registered devices
- One-to-One & Group chat

Hope it still helps & best regards

Patrick

Re: As long as there is no Cisco

jamesc — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:58:26 GMT

I've spoken with one of the WINE developers recently and he's implemented some of the RICHEDIT text functions. Jabber text chat now works on Linux via WINE. There's some rendering errors though so the program isn't exactly friendly to use. But MRA mode and text chat do work. The latest wine-devel branch is needed to use Jabber. As more Richedit text functions are added things like copy/paste are going to work. I've also been able to directly connect Pidgin to Cisco Jabber. Unfortunately there is no MRA mode for Pidgin, it'd be good if someone could add this to Pidgin or if Cisco could provide some documentation on how to make an XMPP client compatible with MRA mode. As I understand it, it would be possible to fork Pidgin's XMPP plugin to add support for Softphone/parsing of Jabber's XML config. This would bring Pidgin a lot closer to being a full Jabber Linux client. Unfortunately I don't have the skillset/time to work on a project like that.