# Client Control Plugin Readme

## Overview

The client control plugin allows to specify which XMPP clients are allowed to connect to the server; which client features are enabled; manage groupchat and URL bookmarks and control which Spark version should be used by clients.

Note: Filtering clients that are allowed to connect to the server depends on the identity presented by the client. Therefore, a client that was modified to appear as another XMPP client may connect to the server. However, only sophisticated and knowledgeable users may be able to do such modification.

## Installation

Copy clientControl.jar into the plugins directory of your Openfire installation. The plugin will then be automatically deployed. To upgrade to a new version, copy the new clientControl.jar file over the existing file.

Note: Installations using the spark manager plugin will need to uninstall the plugin before installing this new plugin.

## Upgrading from Enterprise

If you are upgrading from the Enterprise plugin, and wish to keep your old bookmarks, you will need to manually run some database scripts to perform the migration. Note, if you don't care about your previous bookmarks, you don't have to worry about these steps.

First, you will need to shut down your Openfire server and remove the enterprise plugin. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Shut down your Openfire server
2. Remove the enterprise.jar file and the enterprise directory from the plugins directory in your Openfire install root
3. Install this plugin, clientControl.jar by copying it into the plugins directory.
4. At this point, you will need to start up Openfire and let it extract and install the clientControl plugin. You can watch for this to occur by looking under the Plugins tab in the Openfire admin console. Once it appears in the list, continue to the next step.
5. Shut the server back down again.
6. Go into your plugins/clientControl/database directory. There you will see some scripts prefixed with import_. Log into your database, switch to the Openfire's database as you configured during setup (you can find this information in conf/openfire.xml if you don't remember it), and run the script that matches the database you are using. Note that the embedded database is hsqldb and you can use the script in bin/extra from the Openfire install root (bin/extra/embedded-db-viewer.sh or bin/extra/embedded-db-viewer.bat, depending on whether you are using Windows) to access your embedded database.
7. Once the script has completed, you can start Openfire back up and all of your settings should be the way they were when you were running the Enterprise plugin.