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Have a look around. We're currently working intensively on improving MongooseIM documentation. The sections below will help you get started with the installation, deployment and development of our scalable XMPP solution.

Contents

• Get to know MongooseIM contains the overview of our application, its architecture and deployment strategies.

• Getting started is a step-by-step guide on how to:

  • Build MongooseIM on a supported OS
  • Perform basic configuration
  • Use the main administration script, mongooseimctl

• Configuration

  • Basic configuration
  • Advanced configuration
    • Everything about LDAP
    • Listener modules
    • Extension modules

• Security

• Debugging

• Clustering

  • Cluster configuration and node management
  • Logging & monitoring

• Introduction to Hooks and Handlers is worth reading if you are interested in writing your own modules. It contains the following:

  • A description of the hooks and handlers mechanism used in MongooseIM and ejabberd to call functions and pass data between various modules
  • The most useful hooks
  • An example module registering some handlers as well as creating a custom hook
  • A list of all the available hooks (and a script to extract it from the source of your version of MIM/ejabberd)

• Folsom Metrics provides an overview of the API and data format used by MongooseIM's REST metrics interface.