Implementing and configuring Bloomberg capture can be accomplished with the following steps:
Customer Managed SFTP Daily Data Transfer
Using data management features of Bloomberg Anywhere, customers are able to configure their account to prepare communications for daily transfer to MCO for archiving and monitoring.
Prerequisites
Bloomberg Anywhere subscription. A Bloomberg Anywhere account is necessary to access the Enterprise Console and Bloomberg SFTP.
Customer must work with Bloomberg Customer Support to request an SFTP site to be enabled with a Daily Delivery File option.
Configuration Steps
Customer to request as PGP public key and passphrase from MCO. This is a uniquely generated encryption key and passphrase that will be used by Bloomberg for encrypted data prior transfer. Note: If your organization already has a PGP private key and passphrase setup for other purposes, you may provide those to MCO instead.
Customer to provide Bloomberg with the MCO SFTP inbound IP address in order to place it on their allowlist:
52.213.81.24. Bloomberg SFTP will only allow connections from IP addresses in the allowlist.Customer to provide MCO with authentication credentials to the SFTP server. Credentials may be either userid and password OR userid and SSH key.
PGP Key Expiration. If your PGP key was created with an expiration date, then it is the responsibility of the customer to provide MCO with an updated before the expiration date.
Bloomberg will deactivate and delete inactive SFTP sites after 60 days. Furthermore, Bloomberg deletes data files on a rolling 21 day basis. Therefore, setup steps must be performed within 20 days or risk losing daily file feeds.
Mapping Bloomberg and Instant Bloomberg Users Accounts
Mapping users to their account identities in Bloomberg is critical so that eComms can know how to handle their communications.
Users are mapped to the primary email address in their profile by default and to additional Source Mappings configured to additional Bloomberg and Instant Bloomberg identities.
To add additional email addresses to a user profile.
Sign in to MCO eComms as a Admin user.
Navigate to Settings > Users page to locate specific users for mapping.
Open a user profile by clicking edit (pencil icon).
Locate the Sources section and select the
Editbutton. To put the section in editing mode.Select Add Source button to insert a new mapping record.
Select the Bloomberg or Bloomberg IB in the Source name column and enter the email address in the Unique Identifier field. Click the check button when done editing the row.
Add additional Bloomberg or Bloomberg IB identities as required.
Click Save button when done to save the mapping.
Immediately after adding this user source mapping, newly arriving Bloomberg messages and Instant Bloomberg IMs with the entered identities will be mapped to this user. Once mapped all retention and detection policies associated with this user will be applied moving forward.
Important! New source mappings will update existing messages and alerts in the account for search and display reference purposes. However, they will not retroactively apply retention and detection policies to messages already in the application.