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The only change will be for your clients to send their messages direct to the DataPower appliance on a Client port that you specify.

DataPower can be used to ensure this cap is not exceeded or to send notifications to ensure that any overage is appropriately billed.

WebSphere DataPower follows the general mediation model, again with product specific details, as shown in Figure 10.

WebSphere DataPower's architecture is such that the computing resources of a device are shared equally across the deployed domains.

Step 5: If the user is authenticated and authorized to call the MDM service, the DataPower Appliance performs the last step.

Each DataPower configuration (or application if you prefer) will vary significantly in terms of the processing done on individual messages.

Thus, whenever an MDM service is called, DataPower enforces the appropriate security policies before routing the call to MDM Server.

Topic selection is only one of the options the DataPower XM70 provides for filtering messages.

Shape: DataPower can delay traffic in an attempt to keep the transaction rate at the given threshold.

But that never happened because, as it turns out, all of the things we had been told about DataPower were shockingly true -- and then some.

The fetch action is a predefined WebSphere DataPower action, with one source parameter that you point to the routing rules repository URL.

The computing power within WebSphere DataPower is laid out as a linear plane accessible to all workloads flowing through the device.

WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances generates a self-signed certificate and a private key, and stores both in the temporary folder.

A domain is a configuration partition on a DataPower device, and is the most granular configuration object that the Toolkit uses.

DataPower appliances wipe out any concern about the previous two points listed above, as they are hardened out of the box.

The WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance allows the crypto objects to be created individually and then selected in the configuration needed.

To configure Tivoli Access Manager integration with the DataPower device, only a few steps need to be done.

This action allows a DataPower device to serve as a central enforcement point for securing Web services or traffic over the wire.

The DataPower appliance defines an action called AAA (for Authenticate, Authorize, Audit) that can be applied to all incoming requests.

DataPower provides a variety of information regarding general system health as well as consumption of resources and services.

The next action is a WebSphere DataPower transformation that executes the first route resolution stage.

Both DataPower and backside resources must be configured to respond appropriately to these test messages.

Log in to the DataPower WebGUI as a user with access level of a developer for the underlying domain.

A DataPower domain, either the default or an application domain, can be associated with the configured community.

What is the best way for an RPG application running on iSeries to connect to a DataPower appliance?

Before you start tuning WebSphere DataPower you need to gather some runtime statistics and data for your deployed solution.

Developers do not need to know the format of the file because all the changes can be made using DataPower WebGUI.

Response: The time taken by WebSphere DataPower to process the message received from the server before sending it back to the client.

The techniques shown in this article require a DataPower device with firmware version of at least 3. 5. 1. 2.

General health and activity monitors ensure that the DataPower device is operating within predefined system parameters.

Configure a DataPower Appliance complying with the authentication mechanism required by the MDM Server.

Support for MDM deployments beyond enterprise boundaries by providing first-level authorization and identity mapping in DataPower.

The DataPower appliance provides three Enterprise MIB documents for configuration, status, and notification.

Continuously verify the status of the DataPower environment through polling status data and subscribing to SNMP traps.

This article describes various DataPower status inquiry methods and presents strategies and best practices for interpreting them.

Application monitoring can also be polled if the application domain is specified in the DataPower SNMP configuration.

The DataPower MIBs can be downloaded from the appliance to be used by any SNMP management tool.

A Domain object corresponds to a domain configuration on a DataPower device.

A value should be chosen that tolerates client and DataPower system time mismatches plus network response delays.

DataPower is self-optimizing, and spikes in CPU unassociated with traffic levels may occur as the device performs background activities.

This section provides the detailed configuration steps for managing DataPower Appliances.

Request: The time taken by DataPower to process the request message before sending it to the server.

A common use case is to expose an IMS COBOL application as a Web service with DataPower.

While status inquiry is a straightforward endeavor, alerting is done using several DataPower objects.

LLM users and others looking for a high-speed routing solution will find that the DataPower XM70 is hard to beat.

Many status providers (or monitoring agents) are built into the DataPower firmware to fetch status data.

This article has described a number of the new DataPower XM70 appliance's features for high-speed, content-based routing.

The Secure Gateway pattern uses DataPower to provide security services and protocol mediation.

XC10 configuration: This script package configures our web service application to use WebSphere DataPower XC10 as an HTTP session store.

The key-certificate pairs are generated for test purposes and uploaded to WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances.

Figure 2 outlines the key configuration objects that help create boundaries within a WebSphere DataPower device.

Each ManagedSet can consist of heterogeneous DataPower devices with different hardware types, firmware levels, and licenses.

Investigate temperatures outside the ranges by checking fan speeds, airflow around device, and if necessary by contacting DataPower Support.

Prior to the release of the DataPower XM70, a company facing this problem had few options, and they tended to be both costly and complex.

Hopefully, this information has provided you with some new ideas for utilizing WebSphere DataPower.

Finally, we will demonstrate how service providers can monitor service requests using Web services traffic shaping features in DataPower.

Throttle: DataPower can reject transactions that exceed the given threshold.

A WebSphere DataPower domain is a logical partition that provides the ability to isolate services.

There is one important WebSphere DataPower behavior link to the FSH that could greatly impact how you design your FSH objects.

This requires a slight shift in focus when isolating solutions within WebSphere DataPower.

The first step in using the routing script is to configure a WebSphere DataPower XMLFirewall object on your appliance.

Interface utilization monitors provide an analysis of the amount of data that is being received and transmitted by the DataPower device.

WebSphere DataPower provides a number of service types that can be configured.

If listening for multiple topics is a requirement, the DataPower XM70 provides this ability through topic selection.

In this situation, you need to protect the back end from being overwhelmed and ensure WebSphere DataPower remains stable.

The DataPower XM70 "Fast Path" has potential throughput rates in the millions of messages per second with microsecond latency.

We'll go through the steps to configure a DataPower device to do this.

Security Architect can also distribute these services and attached policies directly to DataPower.

A Web Service Proxy in DataPower for this kind of services is created.

Our DataPower configurations take care of user authentication and policy-based authorization of user requests.

We'll start with building a mediating proxy on the client side DataPower domain gateway.

If finer granularity is required to select messages for processing, you can use DataPower XM70 message selection.

The registry would return the address of the client DataPower domain gateway in our scenario.

You might wonder whether SLM can be used when multiple DataPower appliances are used behind a load balancer.

The DataPower Web Service Proxy now sends the secured response to the initial EchoService request.

When the manager instance shuts down, it unsubscribes from the DataPower devices.

The DataPower device restarts itself automatically in conjunction with throttle configurations such as memory or file system constraints.

Refer to the DataPower datasheets for more information on choosing a service type.

The DataPower XM70 defines a set of fields divided into logical namespaces that return message values that can then be used as operands.

Keep in mind that almost everything configured on the DataPower device boils down to some type of reusable object or template.

Create and exchange keys for each DataPower device.

Through its form factor the DataPower SOA Appliance is easy to deploy to specific points in your network topology.

It is built on the hardened, tamper-proof DataPower platform.

In particular, the DataPower XM70 solves the problem of making intelligent routing decisions at microsecond speeds based on message content.

This article provides the how-to knowledge of tuning WebSphere DataPower to reach the desired performance results.

To ensure the exchange is correct with the WebSphere DataPower SOA appliance, turn on the probe and monitor the traffic.

If Version 3 is used, a DataPower user name is provided in the Security Name field.

If there is a back-end application that offers an XML-based interface, such as Web services, the DataPower XI 150 can be used.

In order to provide secure Web services (or any XML-based protocol), use an XML firewall such as WebSphere DataPower.

Leaving this value 0. 0. 0. 0 will use the default configured DataPower address.

Figure 9 shows an example of how to create the WSRR Server object in the DataPower admin console.

Verify that each DataPower Appliance you want to add has a firmware level of 3. 6. 0. 4 or later.

For example, the referenced Redbook describes the use of DataPower using the gateway pattern.

Configure a web service proxy in the DataPower SOA Appliance to perform the web services security processing for a deployed web service

DataPower SLM can take action at a transaction threshold in three ways

Best practice monitoring of DataPower is a three-pronged activity

The newest member of the DataPower appliance family, XB60 B2B device, also benefits from some new enhancements. In short