Duration
3 days
Audience
This intermediate course is designed for administrators who install, manage, and monitor IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. The course is also relevant for developers who administer appliances.
Prerequisites
- You should have a successful completion of IBM online course Technical Introduction to WebSphere DataPower V6 (VW600). This course contains DataPower introductory and overview information that is not covered in this course. You must start this course with the DataPower baseline knowledge gained from attending the introduction course.
- You should be familiar with networking protocols, security, and XML.
Skillls Taught
- Configure an appliance for its initial deployment
- Download and upgrade the firmware on the DataPower appliances
- Create and manage user accounts, groups, and domains
- Configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to and from WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Manage the migration of service configurations
- Ensure high availability of DataPower appliances by using load balancer groups, clustering, Intelligent Load Distribution, self-balancing, and the On Demand Router
- Manage appliances, domains, and services by using WebSphere Appliance Management Center
- Troubleshoot and debug services by using the problem determination tools, logs, and probes that are provided with the DataPower appliance
- Configure logging of messages to external locations
Key Topics
- Course introduction
- Initial setup
- Exercise: Exercise setup
- Managing firmware
- DataPower administration overview
- Administration interfaces
- Exercise: Using the CLI and the XML management interface to manage DataPower appliances
- DataPower services overview
- Configuring appliance access
- Clustering and failover
- Troubleshooting
- Exercise: Using the troubleshooting tools to debug errors
- DataPower cryptographic tools and SSL setup
- Exercise: Securing connections with SSL
- DataPower caching
- Configuration migration
- Exercise: Managing configuration information
- Appliance management tools
- Exercise: Using WebSphere Appliance Management Center
- Logging and log targets
- Exercise: Logging to an external log system
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.