Axway B2Bi Training

Basics
Message Exchange Part 2
Message Exchange Part 2 – Overview
Items Trading Engine and Integration Engine Transports

Embedded Servers

DMZ Nodes

Custom Transport Definitions (SDK)

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Module Objectives
• After completing this module you will be familiar with a number of essential
Message Exchange concepts, including the functionality and configuration of
Transports, Embedded Servers, DMZ Nodes and the usage of custom transports
(aka Pluggable Transport / Pluggable server)

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Transport
Definitions

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Axway B2Bi Transports
B2Bi
Trading Engine

Integration
Engine

• B2Bi manages the separate communication and message processing

operations by providing two Message Processing modes:
• “Limited” mode: Communication processing (trading engine) only
• “Standard” mode: Message processing (trading engine and integration
engine)
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Axway B2Bi Transports – Trading Pickups

• An overview of Trading pickup

protocols provided through the
Trading Engine The total
number of available protocols
is license based.

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Axway B2Bi – Integration Engine Transports
B2Bi
Trading Engine

Applications

Integration
Engine

• To communicate with applications, B2Bi provides a number of additional base

transports directly from the Integration Engine – which supplement the protocols
provided by the Trading Engine. Some of them are provided for backwards
compatibility reasons
• Integration Engine transports always operate in Standard Mode

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Axway B2Bi Transports – Application Pickups

Trading Engine • An overview of Application

Transports pickup protocols provided
through the Trading Engine and
the Integration Engine. The total
number of available protocols is
license based. Application
transports must be selected /
Integration Engine activated during installation or
adapt with ConfigureB2Bi script
Transports afterwards.

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Axway B2Bi Transports – Application Deliveries

Trading Engine • An overview of Application

Transports delivery protocols provided
through the Trading Engine and
the Integration Engine. The total
number of available protocols is
license based. Application
transports must be selected /
Integration Engine activated at installation or
afterwards via configureB2Bi
Transports script.

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Axway B2Bi Transports – Partner Deliveries

• An overview of the Partner

Delivery protocols provided
through the Trading Engine
The total number of available
protocols is license based.

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Embedded
Servers

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Embedded Servers – UI

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Embedded Servers – SFTP

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Embedded SFTP Server – Configuration Community side

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Embedded SFTP Server – Configuration Partner side (Steps)

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2

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Embedded SFTP Server – Configuration Partner side (Delivery)

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Embedded SFTP Server – Configuration Partner side
(Transport Users)

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Secure Relay –
DMZ Node & Zone
Configuration

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Secure Relay
• Secure Exchange messages via DMZ
• Port-forwarding service
• Master agent versus router agent in the DMZ.
• Secure connections between B2Bi and Secure relay.
• Bi-directional message traffic

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Secure Relay - Multiple Node Example (Inbound)

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Secure Relay - Multiple Node Example (Inbound)

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Secure Relay - Multiple Node Example (Inbound)

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Secure Relay – Create a new node

Specify the
internal IP of
the DMZ node

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Secure Relay – Export and Start Agent

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Secure Relay – What is a Zone
(security separation of different networks)
Zone / Internet

SR A

Internet
B2Bi SR B
Node X

Zone / VPN

B2Bi
Node Y SR C
Private Network
SR D

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Secure Relay – Create a new zone and use in node

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Port Forwarding
& Proxying for
outbound
connections
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Secure Relay - Port Forwarding (1/4)

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Secure Relay - Port Forwarding (2/4)

DMZ

B2Bi Secure
Node X Relay A
Port Port
xxxx 1443
Forwarding

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Secure Relay - Port Forwarding (3/4)

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Secure Relay - Port Forwarding (4/4)

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Secure Relay – Outbound Proxy (1/2)

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Secure Relay – Outbound Proxy (2/2)

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Message Exchange
Pluggable Transport / Server
overview

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Pluggable Transports
• Add your own protocol to B2Bi.

• A pluggable transport can be used to:

• integration between B2Bi and application using a third-party API.
• Exchange additional document metadata.
• proprietary mechanism implementation.
• Enable a file system transport that supports directory multiplexing for inbound
delivery
• just another transport option.

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Pluggable Transports
• Pluggable transport framework.
• The three interfaces are:

• PluggableClient
• PluggableSettings
• PluggableMessage

• Exchanging messages with external servers.

• pluggabletransports.xml.

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 End of
Message Exchange Part 2
module