Rocket.Chat

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Rocket.Chat (at least 2016)

• Homepage: https://rocket.chat/
• RocketChat Releases/versions: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/releases

• TCP port 3000
• TOTP

Features

• Free audio and video conferencing
• Guest access
• Screen sharing
• File sharing
• LiveChat
• LDAP Group Sync
• Two-factor authentication (2FA)
• E2E encryption
• SSO
• SAML
• Multiple OAuth providers available
• Integration: Prometheus
• GDRP data processing consent text option
• Roles: Moderator, Leader, Owner, Admin, bot, app, guest, anonymous, User and livechat-guest, livechat-agent, livechat-manager
• Push Notifications: Apple (APN), Google (FCM)

Editions

• Enterprise Edition (EE)
  • Omnichannel multiple business hours​
  • Engagement Dashboard, shows the administrator how users are using Rocket.Chat’s server
• Community Edition (CE)

See also: Changelog

Ubuntu Installation: Snap

• Ubuntu:

snap install rocketchat-server
rocketchat-server (3.x/stable) 3.1.1 from Rocket.Chat (rocketchat✓) installed

/var/snap/rocketchat-server/current/Caddyfile

sudo snap set rocketchat-server port=4000 (if you need to modify default tcp port 3000)

snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy.service
snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-mongo.service
snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-server.service

Commands (snap info):

 - rocketchat-server.backupdb
 - rocketchat-server.initcaddy
 - rocketchat-server.mongo
 - rocketchat-server.restoredb

snap set rocketchat-server backup-on-refresh=enable
snap set rocketchat-server port=4000

snap get rocketchat-server
Key                               Value
backup-on-refresh                 disable
caddy                             disable
db-feature-compatibility-version  3.6
https                             disable
mongo-oplog-url                   mongodb://localhost:27017/local
mongo-url                         mongodb://localhost:27017/parties
port                              4000
snap-refreshing                   false

Wizard: Auto opt in new users for Two Factor via Email

Rocket.Chat docker installation

• Official docker-compose file: https://github.com/RocketChat/Docker.Official.Image/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

Related terms

• Mobile push notificaton gateways
• MongoDB: GridFS
• BigBlueButton
• Jitsi
• Hubot
• React, TypeScript
• Electron

Activities

• Read about RocketChat in docker container: https://rocket.chat/docs/installation/docker-containers/
• Review Rocket.Chat Ansible module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/rocketchat_module.html
• RocketChat logs
• Rocket.Chat release cycle: https://handbook.rocket.chat/product/release-cycle
• Support: https://docs.rocket.chat/getting-support

See also

• Rocket.Chat, Rocket.Chat releases, RocketChat logs, Docker logs mongodb, GridFS
• Slack, Pagerly, /poll, /gcal, /remind, /confluence, AWS Chatbot, Slackbot, Slack API, Slack Workspace, Hubot, Slack notifications, Slackbot-LinkExpanding, uses: slackapi/slack-github-action, Search in Slack, Navigate Slack with your keyboard, Enterprise Grid, Slack App Managers
• XMPP, Profanity, Matrix (protocol), MQTT, CoAP, AMQP, MQTT, Libjingle, Mellium
• MongoDB: MongoDB Compass, mongo, mongodump, mongorestore, mongoexport, MongoDB changelog, MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator, GridFS, MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB replication, Ops Manager, docker logs mongodb, show collections, show dbs, mongo --help

https://docs.rocket.chat/guides/administrator-guides/authentication/saml