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title: Enabling the integration bus
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).
To enable the [Integration bus](https://docs.kentico.com/13/integrating-3rd-party-systems/using-the-integration-bus.md), open the **Settings** application in the administration interface and adjust the settings in the **Integration -> Integration bus** category.
> **Note:** All sites in the system share the same settings for the integration bus. You need to select the _(global)_ option in the **Site** selector to configure the settings.
| Setting | Description |
| ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enable system integration bus | Allows logging and processing of incoming and outgoing integration tasks.
Integration tasks represent individual synchronization operations for objects or pages (create, update, delete etc.). The synchronization process consists of two steps:
**Logging** – creation of integration tasks for actions that require synchronization.
**Processing** – execution of the integration tasks.
You can enable or disable logging/processing of incoming/outgoing tasks separately through the other settings in the category. |
| Enable logging of incoming tasks | Indicates if the integration bus logs integration tasks received from external systems. To log tasks, the **Enable system integration bus** setting must also be enabled. |
| Enable processing of incoming tasks | Check to allow processing of integration tasks incoming from external systems. To process tasks, the **Enable system integration bus** setting must also be enabled. |
| Enable logging of outgoing tasks | Indicates if the integration bus logs changes made to pages and objects in the system as outgoing integration tasks. To log tasks, the **Enable system integration bus** setting must also be enabled. |
| Enable processing of outgoing tasks | Check to allow processing of outgoing integration tasks. To process tasks, the **Enable system integration bus** setting must also be enabled. |
