TIBCO Administrator is used to deploy and undeploy TIBCO BusinessConnect applications, configure process transports and TIBCO BusinessConnect
components, and start and stop the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
You can access the necessary links and buttons through the application management node in the left panel, or through the management screens (User, Resource, Application, and TIBCO BusinessConnect management) in the right panel).
Figure 7 TIBCO Administrator, Application Management Console
Application Management
The application management panel, Figure 7, provides access to all of the top-level screens associated with the TIBCO BusinessConnect application and TIBCO BusinessConnect server configuration.
BusinessConnect
The TIBCO BusinessConnect console, Figure 8, is one of the management consoles that opens in the right panel.
Using TIBCO Administrator
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31Figure 8 TIBCO Administrator, TIBCO BusinessConnect Console
This console is used to manage all aspects of the TIBCO BusinessConnect application, such as:
• Business Agreements This link is used for adding and deleting business agreements. To manage business agreements, see TIBCO BusinessConnect
• Gateway This link is used to configure and manage the Gateway server, as described in detail in TIBCO BusinessConnect Gateway Server Administration.
• Log Viewer This link is used for managing audit, non-repudiation, and resend logs. To manage logs, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner
• Operations Editor This link is used for importing, exporting, adding new, and deleting operations. To manage operations, see TIBCO BusinessConnect
• Participants This link is used for importing, exporting, adding new, copying, and deleting participants. To manage participants, see TIBCO BusinessConnect
• Reporting This link is used for generating reports for inbound and outbound transactions per protocol. To generate reports, see TIBCO BusinessConnect
• System Settings This console lets you manage the following functions of your TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
— General
— Certificate Store
— Inbound Public Transport Types
— Inbound Mail POP3 Servers
— Outbound HTTP/FTP Proxy and Mail SMTP Servers
— Audit, Non-Repudiation and Runtime Database Configuration
— User Authentication Configuration
— Activated Protocol Plug-ins and Properties
— Metadata Type Configuration
— Private Process Smart Routing
— Credential Expiry Alerter
— User Access Audit Trail
— Utilities
— Visibility
• User Management This console lets you manage users and groups using TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management, page 41 and TIBCO
BusinessConnect Group Management, page 46.
All these listed functions you can reach using the System Settings console are explained in TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration Guide,
Using TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks
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33Using TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks
With the BusinessConnect Palette and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, you can create process definitions that serve as private processes for a TIBCO BusinessConnect installation.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks can either send requests to a TIBCO
BusinessConnect server or receive replies from a TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
Figure 9 illustrates TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks operating in conjunction with TIBCO BusinessConnect.
Figure 9 TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Communicating with TIBCO BusinessConnect
In Figure 9, Company A implements a private process in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and uses the Send Request/Notification activity to invoke a pre-configured B2B operation on a TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
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TIBCO BusinessConnect in Company A sends the request to TIBCO
BusinessConnect server at Company B, which has a process definition with the Receive Request/ Notification process starter.
This process definition receives the incoming request, processes it, and sends a response back to the TIBCO BusinessConnect server using the Send Response activity. TIBCO BusinessConnect then routes the reply back to the original requestor.
It is not necessary for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to be used to
implement the private process at both Company A and Company B. A different application can be used to send the request or receive the request. It is however, necessary for TIBCO BusinessConnect to be used at any site where TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is used to send or receive TIBCO BusinessConnect messages.
Using TIBCO Designer
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35Using TIBCO Designer
TIBCO Designer is an easy-to-use GUI for configuring, designing, and testing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks projects. It provides an integrated development environment including these components:
• Project directory
• Project resources
• Process design
• Activity configuration
As shown in Figure 10, you will use TIBCO Designer as a modeling tool to design business processes as a part of your business-to-business integration.
Figure 10 TIBCO Designer
TIBCO Designer is used in the design time environment for designing and testing business processes and to prepare documents for secure transmission over the Internet. It contains a number of native palettes, including the TIBCO
BusinessConnect palette.
To learn more about these palettes and how to work with the application, please refer to TIBCO Designer User’s Guide.
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37Chapter 4 TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management
This chapter explains how to manage user and groups in TIBCO Administrator and in TIBCO BusinessConnect.
Topics
• Overview, page 38
• TIBCO Administrator User Management, page 39
• TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management, page 41
• TIBCO BusinessConnect Group Management, page 46
Overview
The User Management feature of TIBCO BusinessConnect expands upon the user management capabilities provided with TIBCO Administrator. TIBCO
BusinessConnect User Management provides the ability to manage access restrictions on users of the BusinessConnect administration console.
For example, previously when TIBCO Administrator User Management was used to give a user read and write access to BusinessConnect trading partner
configurations, the user had read and write access to all BusinessConnect trading partner configurations. Now, with TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management, a user can be further restricted to only have read and write access to particular trading partner configurations.
With TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management, access restrictions can be narrowed for:
• Trading Partner Configurations
• Business Agreement Configurations
• Logs and Reports
The TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management feature has been designed with backward compatibility in mind. If you don't use the BusinessConnect User Management feature, user access will remain the same as for previous versions of TIBCO BusinessConnect where user access rights to BusinessConnect were configured using only TIBCO Administrator User Management.
TIBCO BusinessConnect User Management provides the ability to view an audit trail of a user's activities while using BusinessConnect. To learn how to audit all the activities that users perform on trading partners, see TIBCO BusinessConnect
TIBCO Administrator User Management
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39TIBCO Administrator User Management
TIBCO Administrator User Management allows you to create users and roles and assign them access rights to resources available in the administration domain.