Postilion Management

The Postilion suite of products developed by ACI Worldwide covers a range of capabilities across payment switching, transaction processing and card issuing. The key components are:

  • Realtime payment switching
  • Card issuing
  • ATM and POS driving

Eclipse is tightly integrated into Postilion to offer a unified platform that provides a range of hosted services including:

  • Instant Card Issuing as a Service
  • Acquiring and Payment as a Service
  • SME in a-box Services including Terminal Management
  • The rapid acceleration of banking-as-a-service deployments

There are various deployment options including:

  • Eclipse and Postilion services are offered as hosted services
  • Eclipse integrated into an existing Postilion instance

This section describes the prerequisites to connect an Eclipse instance to a Postilion instance.

Pre-requisites:

The following Postilion host details are required:

  1. IP address
  2. Port
  3. Number of connections permitted

Service Discovery Configuration

The following should be included in the global property sd.external.services as part of service discovery:

Service Type: Always 'TCPSOCKET'

  1. Service Name: PROD/TEST><ISO 2 country code> e.g. TEST_Postilion_EFTCorp_ZA_Xneelo
  2. Handler: com.ukheshe.eclipse.services.postbridge.transport.PostbridgeTcpsocketHandler
  3. Some connections as provided in Postilion host details, default to 1.
  4. IP and Port of the Postilion host:

e.g:

TCPSOCKET,TEST_Postilion_EFTCorp_ZA_Xneelo,41.87.208.234:7802:com.ukheshe.eclipse.services.postbridge.transport.PostbridgeTcpsocketHandler:1, , , ,6000

Tenant level configurations

  1. postilionServiceName (required) - e.g. postilionServiceName=TEST_Postilion_EFTCorp_ZA_Xneelo
  2. cardManagementSystem(required) - e.g. cardManagementSystem=Postilion
  3. isPostilionCardManagementSystem(required) - e.g. isPostilionCardManagementSystem=true
  4. hsmServiceName(required) - e.g. hsmServiceName=TEST_HSM_EFTCorp_ZW_Netone
  5. postbridge.config (optional) - if the tenant will point to a custom postbridge config

Global property configurations

Default postbridge.config settings:

NameDescription
institutionIdICA number
cardAcceptorTerminalId00000008
cardAcceptorId120000000000001
cardAcceptorNameLocationUKHESHE RESTFUL PRETORIA ZA
posDataCode060000065000017
issuerNr1