Activity 6: Introspecting and Deploying Integrations

In this activity you introspect and deploy integrations among the integration partners defined in the network.

Note: If you are using this activity guide to perform a basic configuration of PeopleSoft Integration Broker as a prerequisite to use another PeopleTools technology you may not need to perform this activity. Consult the product documentation for the PeopleTools technology that you are using to determine if this activity is required.

If you and your integration partners do not have any integrations developed or if you are integrating with third-party systems, you do not need to perform this activity.

If you determine that you do not need to introspect and deploy integrations, mark this activity complete in the activity guide.

To perform the introspection and deployment activity:

  • You should have a basic understanding of the integration metadata and definitions required for integrations. These metadata and definitions include services, service operations, handlers and routings.

  • Service operations for integrating with your integration partners must exist.

The Integration Network features a series of pages that enable you to introspect and deploy services on remote PeopleSoft nodes. The system can introspect and deploy integrations on any node defined in the integration network.

The introspection process makes a series of checks on service metadata to ensure that metadata definitions exist, that they are complete, and that they are active. For example, the introspection process checks that for a selected service or service operation that the service operation is active, routing definitions exist, handlers are active, service operation permissions are defined, and so on.

The goal of deployment processing is to resolve any issues identified during introspection. In many cases during deployment processing, the system can activate service operations, handlers, and routings that are found to be inactive during the introspection process. The system can also frequently create routings if none are found to exist during introspection. However, there are some situations where manual intervention is required. Manual intervention may be required to resolve routing issues and handler issues. And in all cases where service operation permissions do not exist, manual intervention is required to assign permissions.

The basic steps for introspecting and deploying integrations are:

  • Search for items to introspect and deploy.

  • Select integrations to introspect and deploy.

  • Select nodes for introspection and deployment.

  • Verify nodes and services to introspect.

  • Viewing results.

Introspecting and deploying integrations is documented elsewhere in the product documentation.