Creating Pre-defined Groups in Jabber/CUPS

[dan hale]

Hello All, I'm new to Jabber/CUPS. I have installed CUPS and Jabber and can use it on a very basic level. Now I would like to create groups in Jabber but, I would like to know if I can do that on the back-end administrative level.

For Example, we would like to have the following groups and users associated to them:

Engineering

Business Office

IT

Administrative Staff

All groups can interact and see each other.

Is there a way when I setup a new Jabber user that these groups can populate automatically? As it is now I have to add each group thru the jabber client and users. It would be nice that once I create the new user/employee that I can define the groups and users on the back-end (CUPS server)

Thanks,

Dan

[Jaime Valencia · Accepted solution]

There's an option under bulk admin to do that, but it's only for adding users and groups, if someone leaves, and you delete it from there, it will remain in the Jabber clients, in IMP 11.x you can now sync user groups from AD, and those are dynamically updated in the client as you add/remove users.

[dan hale]

Thank you Jaime. I have tried the Bulk edit as you suggested using just one user, in my CSV file,  that is not me and I get the following error when I run the bulk edit when I try to update the contact list:

"Cannot add self as a contact "

ok so I decided to go on the CUCM side and uncheck "Home Cluster and Enable User for Unified CM IM and Presence" to remove them from CUPS, and this was verified via CUPS in the topology page for this users and I re-ran the CSV file again and I get the following error:

"User is not assigned to local node"

Which is it? Where am I going wrong? Sound like it does not like it if the user is associated to CUPS but, when I remove the users I get the user is not associated. Any suggestions would be appreciated..

Thanks,

Dan

[dan hale]

Figured it out...looks like I had column 1 and column 3 the same. I mis-understood what was required. Column 1 is the user that will be added and column 3 is the userid of the contact who's list would be updated.

Thanks,

Dan

[Mohammed al Baqari]

Hi,

You can do this using jabber-config.xml.

1. Create the jabber-config.xml

2. Upload the file to each node the CUCM cluster

3. Restart TFTP service in each node

4. Logout/Login jabber client.

The file should use the following template:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<buddylist>
  <group>
    <gname>Group Name</gname>
    <user>
      <uname>IM Address</uname>
      <fname>Display Name</fname>
    </user>
  </group>
</buddylist>

Example of the file:

The following is an example XML definition of a contact list that you can import into Cisco Jabber:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<buddylist>
  <group>
    <gname>Sales</gname>
    <user>
      <uname>amckenzi@example.com</uname>
      <fname>Adam McKenzie</fname>
    </user>
    <user>
      <uname>aperez@example.com</uname>
      <fname>Anita Perez</fname>
    </user>
  </group>
  <group>
    <gname>Marketing</gname>
    <user>
      <uname>nfox@example.com</uname>
      <fname>Nancy Fox</fname>
    </user>
  </group>
</buddylist>

[Jaime Valencia]

No, you're dead wrong on that

A) jabber-config.xml has absolutely nothing like that

B) that is to import users manually PER Jabber client, ONE CLIENT AT A TIME

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/jabber/Windows/11_0/UG/JABW_BK_CD4EA7A2_00_cisco-jabber-for-windows-110-userguide.html#JABW_TK_I91503DB_00

[Mohammed al Baqari]

Hi Jaime,

So where do you keep this XML and how you point jabber client to it? In fact I understood that this will be under jabber-config.xml.

[Jaime Valencia]

Already posted the link that answers that...

[Mohammed al Baqari]

Ya just read it and understood how it is linked to jabber client. Thx for correcting me.