Configuring Integration Broker Messaging Between PeopleSoft
Instances at Different PeopleTools Levels
There are scenarios especially when doing a
PeopleTools upgrade that you might have to establish
PeopleSoft Integration Broker messaging between
instances running at different PeopleTools levels. Let
me give you an example – Say you have the following
solutions implemented on PeopleTools 8.50.08:
PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, PeopleSoft CRM 9.1, PeopleSoft
FMS 9.1, PeopleSoft Portal 9.1 and PeopleSoft ELM 9.1.
And you decide to do PeopleTools upgrade to
PeopleTools 8.53.04 (latest PeopleTools release at the
time of writing this article) only for PeopleSoft Portal
and PeopleSoft CRM. In this post, I will try to explain
how to configure messaging between these instances
running at two different PeopleTools level.
This article has been created using Doc ID 1302908.1
as reference. While Doc ID 1302908.1 is good – it does
get confusing and does not address all the pitfalls,
which I will try to address here.
Configuring Integration Broker Messaging
Between PeopleSoft Instances at Different
PeopleTools Levels
Let me begin with this piece of information: You can
not use Local Gateway to configure integration broker
messaging between PeopleSoft instances at different
PeopleTools levels. Oracle has acknowledged that the
fix for the same is due to be released in PeopleTools
8.53.06 release (not yet available as of July 2013).
What you need to do is to create 2 gateways – Local and
Remote. Local gateway will be used to enable
messaging between instances at the same PeopleTools
level and remote gateway will be used to enable
messaging between instances at different PeopleTools
levels.
In short, here is what you will do:
1. In the 8.53 system set up in its LOCAL gateway
definition the 8.53 gateway URL.
2. In the 8.50 system set the in its LOCAL gateway
definition the 8.50 gateway URL.
3. In the 8.53 system create a remote (nonlocal)
gateway definition with any name, e.g. RMT850GW
and set it up with the 8.50 gateway URL.
4. In the 8.50 system create a remote (nonlocal)
gateway definition with any name, e.g. RMT853GW
and set it up with the 8.53 gateway URL.
5. In the 8.53 system set the remote 8.50 node
Connectors to use the remote gateway you created
on step #3 (RMT850GW or whatever name you gave
it).
6. In the 8.50 system set the remote 8.53 node
Connectors to use the remote gateway you created
on step #4 (RMT853GW or whatever name you gave
it).
7. Test the new setup by pinging both nodes, 8.53 node
and 8.50 node from both systems, the 8.53 system
and 8.50 system.
Lets explore a few critical steps in detail.
You will need 2 appservers (running at two different
PeopleTools level) to begin with. Like in the scenario
explained, CRM and Portal will use the PeopleTools
8.53.04 appserver as their local gateway. You will need
to create a remote gateway, which will use the URL of
the PeopleTools 8.50.08 to talk to HCM, FMS and ELM.
When you create the new remote gateway in
PeopleTools 8.53.x, you might not be able to load
connectors and get an error – Integration Gateway: No
response received from Gateway (158,10829) when
you try to ping node and
Cannot establish HTTP connection (158, 2842) when
you try to load connectors. This is because PeopleSoft
has done a few changes to security in PeopleTools 8.53.
PeopleSoft no longer defaults to the default keystore
password as password and you need to select a
password. Refer to the URLs provided to resolve the
issues associated with node and connectors.
Ensure that the node definitions are proper otherwise
ping node will not work. You might get error like
Integration Broker Authentication: Invalid
Authentication type (AUTHOPTN) for node PSFT_LM.
(158,452) or Integration Gateway Message
Unmarshalling: Missing value for the following field :
ConnectorClassNam
When the connections are proper, you would be able to
ping nodes from both the sides. For example when in
Portal, you would be able to ping node of HCM defined
in RMT850GW and at the same time when in HCM, you
would be able to ping the Portal node defined
in RMT853GW.
You can also use the helpful screenshots
for IB_gateway_setup_Tools_8.53_to_8.50
If you have any doubts or face any issues regarding the
same, please let me know in the comments section
below.
