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Example message flow

Technical and Business Activity Monitoring

About the example

For this example we consider a corporate back-end application that generates payment instructions, specifying a format and protocol for a transfer to a targeted bank.

Illustration of the example

The following figure illustrates a sequence of operations that could be executed during processing of the payment-type financial exchange message. For a description of each step in the processing sequence, refer to the text that follows the figure.

Processing event sequence description

A corporate back-end application generates a payment instruction file.
Integrator receives the file either through the B2Bi Gateway using the Gateway connector, or directly via a dedicated communication connector (for example, the SAP connector).
Integrator verifies the format of the file and the payment instructions it contains. If Integrator detects any errors, it rejects the message instructions and directs it to SWIFTNet Portal for recycling.
Integrator transforms the message from its proprietary format to the FEX canonical format, and then stores the transformed message in the data warehouse.
Responding to a treasury request, Integrator extracts the message from the data warehouse and transforms it to the appropriate format for the destination bank. The format is determined from the partner information contained in PassPort. Integrator updates the message status in the data warehouse.
Integrator uses the partner definition in PassPort to initiate a transfer request in the B2Bi Gateway. Integrator again updates the message status in the data warehouse.
The B2Bi Gateway uses the partner definition in PassPort to determine the appropriate path and protocol to the target bank (for example, PeSit HS or SWIFTNet FileAct), and then sends the file to the bank.

Technical and Business Activity Monitoring

Throughout the message handling sequence, each product sends tracking information to Sentinel. Sentinel compiles end-to-end supervision data and generates inter-product trace links.

In parallel, Integrator extracts business-related data from the messages it handles, and sends the data to Sentinel. Sentinel uses this data to update graphic displays of business metrics (for example, amount of payment sent to individual banks, categorized by currency type).