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Chapter 1 Participants : Participants Overview

Participants Overview
Participants store a variety of information about trading partners, from the very general (for example the location of the company headquarters) to the detailed (for example, security credentials and available protocols).
Hosts and Partners
TIBCO BusinessConnect defines two types of participants that can exchange electronic documents:
Hosts   A host is a participant in a business agreement and an organizational entity within your company. Hosts participate in the electronic documents exchange using the TIBCO BusinessConnect B2B gateway. One host or multiple hosts might exist, of which private keys are stored by TIBCO BusinessConnect.
Partners   A partner participant is outside of your company and typically has its own B2B gateway, either TIBCO BusinessConnect or some other solution. Your BusinessConnect installation stores public keys for your partners.
There is little difference between hosts and partners because much of the same information is required to configure both types of participants. An agreement has to be established between a host and a partner.
Managing Participants
You can manage participants as follows:
Create a new participant   Create a new participant as explained in Creating a New Participant.
Export or import a participant   Export an existing participant’s data for use in another BusinessConnect installation and/or import a participant from another BusinessConnect installation, as explained in Exporting Participant Data.
Copy an existing participant   Copy the participant’s data. See Copying a Participant for more information.
Delete a participant   Remove the participant from your system. See Deleting a Participant for more information.
Edit participants data   After the participants are created, their data can be changed. See Editing Participant Data.
Search for a participant   Use the Search function to search for participant. See Searching for a Participant for more information.

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