•iBall plugin for openfire
A few people using wildfire can’t upgrade to the next version (currently openfire 3.3.2) because they need the iBall plugin and it’s original version does not work with the new openfire (See this forum thread). I modified the sources to make it work again.
You can download the plugin as jar file below:
- iBall Chat Auditor 2.0.1 (source code) fixes a bug reported by Tony (see comments)
- iBall Chat Auditor 2 (source code) (for openfire >= 3.3.0)
This should be seen as untested beta release. Please feel free to leave a comment, report bugs or success stories 
enjoy!
Original Version
You can find the original iBall Plugin by Kurt R. Hoehn on sourceforge.
Juni 29th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Works!! Thansk so much!
Juli 31st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for updating this! So far, it works perfectly with Openfire 3.3.2. One small question though: is it supposed to also log MUC (Group Chat) messages? If not, could it?
August 8th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
So I am using the iball chat but I have a problem every time I start a conversation and then join someone, I get a java error in the openfire server windows, and no more archiving happens.
I can post the error if need be but any ideas?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Muito obrigado, isso facilou muito o meutrabalho, eu uso o openfire 3.3.2
August 15th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Thank you very much for this new version of iBall!
You really saved my life…
Let me send you a postcard from Brazil…
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hi guys,
I really would like to tank you for the time you took to fix the plugin. I’m using openfire 3.3.2 and your latest version of iball (2.0.1). Also, with openfire I use the gateway plugin to communicate with another networks like MSN and I’m experiencing a problem. When a user from my jabber domain talks to someone from MSN domain iball just logs one way of the conversation meaning, I can see what msn’s user says to jabber’s user but I cannot see the other way around. I’ve checked the db and I see what I have in there. Iball is not writing the two way conversation in the db.
Any Idea?
thx,
sergio
August 24th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Is the latest version (2.0.1) a necessary upgrade? Has the issue that Tony raised been happening to everyone? I’ve tried installing this update, but the administration page for the updated plugin shows a blank page.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Thanks! congratulations from Brazil too
Openfire + ActiveDirectory + IM msn gateway integration + iball chat log..
the best solution!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Thanks to all for their feedback! Due to lack of time, I can’t always reply immediatly. Sorry for that!
@sergio: I’ll check it, keep in touch!
@bryan: it fixes an error with group chats, if you need this feature, you should upgrade!
@maicon: thx for your feedback, I’d love to receive a postcard from brazil
@Soterion:
and of course: Blog + BlogMessenger -> even better ^^
yours,
Niklas Bulitta
August 29th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Only more one question…
when the user is associated a msn user… using the gateway IM plugin…
only the messages ingoing are logeds…..
the messages outgoing over the msn.. not are loged….
i hope the words are clean..
my english is not good.
p.s.: what the user talk with the msn contacts not are loged, only what the contacts talk with the users…
September 11th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I had not used the previous plugin, but I’ve been looking for something to reasonably log chat messages from the server, and I can’t seem to find a tool to parse the audit logs in a reasonable fashion, so I thought I’d try this.
It installs with no errors, and i-ball properties shows up on the admin menu, but when I click on it, I get a completely blank screen.
Help?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Hi Rob,
I wrote you an email. If there’s an error msg in your logs, this would be really helpful
Nik
September 13th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Hi Guys,
I have the same issue as Rob. I have installed the plugin and it looks like its fine but i get a blank page when i go to I-Ball properties..
Hope you can help me
Thanks
September 13th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I just sent Nik the grep from my error.log. Hopefully it will shed some light on the subject.
September 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
It looks like it has issues creating the tables if you’ve tried installing an older version previously. Can the code be modified to drop the old tables somehow?
September 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I’m very sorry to announce that due to lack of time I have not the power to maintain this package. There are so many features which could be implemented and which I’d love to do. So if there is anyone who’d like to maintain this package, I can link to him/her.
Also someone told me there ís a new development of an auditor plugin for openfire going on, but I can’t remember the name. google may help
September 28th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
[...] ao visualizador de logs, o I-Ball Chat Auditor (versão adaptada) permite visualizar as conversas de acordo com o critério escolhido na busca, que pode ser por [...]
September 28th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Tanks!!!
Muito bom, valeu =D
September 28th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
“Missing database schema for iball. Attempting to install…
iball_auditor-2.0.1 – Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.”
Can anyone shed some light on this error and what I need to do to fix it so I can use this new version of iball? This error comes when loading openfire, and iball is there, but does not have anything to search through.
Thanks
Oktober 26th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Send me your postal address!
November 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Hello all,
I’m having this problem too..
iball_auditor-2.0.1 – Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.”
Anybody solved this problem?
November 24th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I’ve been using the IM Gateway, but now i have a problem, i want to disable some users to chat over msn… i’ve tried changing my policies on the active directory, but it doesn’t work, any other solution?…
hope you can help
November 28th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I’m having the same problems.
Logs reporting that “Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.”. I install the tables manually and the message persist.
And when I click IBall properties I recieve a blank page, and sometimes the logs are reporting the DB problem.
Anybody can help me ?
I’m using Openfire 3.4.1
Thanks
November 28th, 2007 at 12:55 am
La Nueva.
In IM Gateway you can link a jabber account with an MSN account.
Just don’t link the accounts from the users you don’t want. But you need to link all the others accounts manually for this works, cause if you permit that anybody uses the gateway you’ll lose the control (and this is your problem).
It needs more manual work but it is more safe.
Januar 8th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Wooohooo!!! it really works! I’ve downloaded the newest version but in the properties page i receive a blank page, so, i “downgraded” to the 2.0.0 version and works better! thnx!!!!
my config is:
Openfire 3.4.3 + MySQL + WinXP sp2 (Linux coming soon)+ Asterisk-IM + FileTransferDisabler + Gateway IM + I-Ball Chat Auditor 2…
now my jabber is complete… hehe
Januar 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
It seems there are some of us that are getting this error”Missing database schema for iball. Attempting to install…
iball_auditor – Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.”
Are there any solutions for this? Please advise
Thank you
Januar 25th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hello
I want to give thank for this pluggin, is perfect for the administrators
I have a question, How can I for clean the log ? I have openfire with the embeded DB, I don’t have a lot of users
Thank you
Februar 8th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Hi there,
Any idea when it will be updated? the latest version 2.0.1 has some issues regarding cross conversation between networks (MSN and Jabber for instance) I get only one side of the chat. Also, I’m still getting “Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.” …
btw ..I’d like to thank you for your work ..it’s awesome.
thx again,
sergio
Februar 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Hello,
I would like to thank you as well for your work. Would it be possible for you to figure out what is causing the error:
Missing database schema for iball. Attempting to install…
iball_auditor – Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.
I had used the old iball but can’t upgrade to a new server without some sort of chat logging. Any help you could give would be great. Thanx.
Februar 27th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Hi,
The I-Ball Chat Search works fine for me as an administrator. However, I would like to enable this search to all users. Maby make it available on some other website. How could I do it withouth giving them access to the admin console?
Cheers,
Radek
März 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Good morning Mr. Soterion Says
I have the same problem you…
Were you able to resolve?
Send me your email, please?
Thanks
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Cool it helped me ….
April 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to 3.5.0 yet with iBall and if so did they find any problems?
Juli 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Como faço para configurar o banco de dados ? tem um nome de banco, usuário e senha padrão ? como faço para especificar o servidor do banco de dados ?
Oktober 12th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Hello all,
I’m having the same problems with “iball version 2.0.1″ in “Openfire version 3.6.0″
1. Load the Iball plugin using openfire console, any problem.
2. In the User/Group i see the option “Chat Log Search” > “I-Ball Chat Search” (User/Group, Message, Select Date(s):
3. i try any search whit correct parameter and not view report table, but neither see error messages.
Are there any solutions for this? Please advise
Thank you
Mauricio
Oktober 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
3.6.0 you have Admin Console > Server > Archiving This allows you to audit all one-on-one and group chats witrh a high level of configurability for both the logging and searching. In addition you can export as a pdf.
Here is a shot of the settings:
Conversation State Archiving:
Record who talks to who, how long their conversations last, and the number of messages in each conversation. The actual message contents will not be recorded unless message archiving is enabled.
Message Archiving:
Archive the full text of all messages sent between users. Message text will be searchable using keywords.
Archive one-to-one chats
Archive group chats
Only archive conversations of the following room names (separated by comma)
Idle Time:
The number of minutes a conversation can be idle before it’s ended.
Max Time:
The maximum number of minutes a conversation can last before it’s ended.
Juni 29th, 2009 at 10:06 am
To solve the following problem:
Missing database schema for iball. Attempting to install…
iball_auditor – Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your database.
Go into the database directory of the plugin and change the following line
from
—–
INSERT INTO jiveID VALUES (57,1);
to
–
INSERT INTO ofID VALUES (57,1);
März 2nd, 2011 at 5:28 am
How do i clean chat logs?
Thanks,
SS