Understanding the Registering Nodes with the Network Activity

This section provides overview information about the tasks to perform in this activity.

Network Node Password

The first task in this activity is to set the network node password.

PeopleTools is delivered with an IB_NETWORK node. This node is used to perform functionality across all nodes in the integration network, including registering network nodes on participating systems. This node definition is delivered as an Active node definition. You can view the node definition in the Nodes component in PIA. Other than setting the password for this node, no additional configuration is required.

Note:

Do not modify the IB_NETWORK node definition.

The network participants determine the password to be used and it must be set on each integration system.

Integration Gateway Keystore Values

The first activity of this guide, Activity 1: Setting Up the Gateway, includes the task of specifying the path to the gateway keystore and specifying the gateway keystore password in the integration gateway properties file.

This activity enables you to verify that the keystore path and password are set.

The importance of setting the keystore path and password in the integration gateway properties file cannot be stressed enough. If these values are not set, integrations will fail.

Registering Nodes with the Network

In this task you register remote PeopleSoft nodes that represent your integration partners in the integration network.

Note:

Only PeopleSoft nodes can be registered in the integration network.

Registering nodes in the integration network enables you and your integration partners to take advantage of the features and options in the integration network, including view the status of nodes in the network, verify integration processing among network nodes, introspect and deploy integrations among network nodes, monitor integration and transaction processing, and more.