In previous versions of Novell Messenger, logging in from a second workstation would disconnect Messenger on the first workstation.
Novell Messenger 3.0 allows you to maintain simultaneous connections to your Messenger system from multiple workstations or devices. For example, you can be connected to Messenger on your workstation and then connect to Messenger from a mobile device without being logged out of Messenger on your workstation.
Consider the following interactions related to simultaneous connections:
Multiple connections can affect how your status is displayed when changing your status and when logging in on a secondary device.
Changing Status
When you are logged in to Novell Messenger on multiple devices and you change your status on one device, the change is immediately reflected across all devices.
For example, when you are logged in to Messenger on your desktop and on your mobile phone and you change your Messenger status to Away on your phone, the change is also reflected on your desktop. Therefore, other users see your status as Away. (The one exception to this is when your status is moved to Idle on one device because of inactivity on that device. In this case, your status for other devices where you are active is not moved to Idle.)
Logging In
When logging in to Messenger on a device, Messenger detects whether a status already exists on another device. If a status does exist, that status is used on the device where you are logging in. If a status does not exist, the default status for the device is used.
Your conversation history is stored on all devices or computers where you were logged in to Messenger at the time the conversation took place. If you were logged in to Messenger on multiple devices during the time of the conversation, the history for that conversation is stored on all the devices. If you were logged in to only one device at the time the conversation took place, the history is available only from that device. For more information about message history, see Section 6.0, Working with Your Personal History.
Your Messenger administrator can disable this functionality.
For more information, see Section 1.1, Logging In to Novell Messenger and Section 10.0, Using Novell Messenger on Your Mobile Device.