Duration
5 days
Course Description
This course is also available as self-paced virtual (e-learning) course Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V5 (SPVC) (ZE401MY). This option does not require any travel.
In this 5-day, instructor-led course, you learn the fundamental skills that are required to implement IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 5.0.
The IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances allow an enterprise to simplify, accelerate, and enhance the security capabilities of its Extensible Markup Language (XML) and web services deployments, and extend the capabilities of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure.
Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to implement the key use cases for the DataPower appliances. These include XML acceleration and threat protection, web service virtualization, web services security, integrating with IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Java Message Service (JMS), and authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA). You also learn how to use various problem determination tools such as logs, monitors, and probes, as well as techniques for testing DataPower services and handling errors.
Hands-on exercises give you experience working directly with an IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance. The exercises focus on skills such as creating XML firewalls, working with encryption and cryptographic objects, configuring service level monitoring, troubleshooting services, and handling errors.
The lab environment for this course uses the Linux platform within a VMware image.
Audience
This course is designed for integration developers who configure service policies on IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have experience:
- Security-based concepts and protocols
- XML-related technologies such as XML schema, XPath, and XSLT
- Web service fundamentals and the web services security specifications
- You should also successfully complete course Technical Introduction to WebSphere DataPower V5 (VW406MY), to gain basic DataPower knowledge that you need in this course.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances are configured, including the role of XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- Configure a DataPower service to protect against a new class of XML-based threats
- Create a web service proxy to virtualize web service applications
- Implement web services security
- Create and configure cryptographic objects
- Configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to and from WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Configure a multi-protocol gateway (MPGW) to handle multiple protocols for a single service
- Configure a service level monitoring (SLM) policy to handle service processing violations
- Enforce service level policies to manage traffic to and from WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Configure support for IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Java Message Service (JMS)
- Use logs and probes to troubleshoot services
- Handle errors in service policies.
Course Outline
Course introduction
DataPower administration overview
Exercise: Exercise setup
Introduction to XSL transformations
Exercise: Creating XSL transformations
DataPower services overview
Structure of a service
Exercise: Creating a simple XML firewall
Multi-protocol gateway service
Problem determination tools
Exercise: Creating an advanced multi-protocol gateway
Handling errors in a service policy
Exercise: Adding error handling to a service policy
DataPower cryptographic tools
Exercise: Creating cryptographic objects
Using SSL to secure connections
Exercise: Using SSL to secure connections
XML threat protection
Exercise: Protecting against XML threats
Web service proxy service
Exercise: Configuring a web service proxy
XML and web services security overview
Exercise: Web service encryption and digital signatures
Authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA)
Exercise: Web service authentication and authorization
Monitoring objects
Exercise: Creating message counter monitors for a AAA policy
Configuring LDAP by using AAA
Exercise: Creating a AAA policy by using LDAP
OAuth overview and DataPower implementation
Service level monitoring
Exercise: Implementing an SLM monitor in a web service proxy
Integration with WebSphere MQ
Exercise: Configuring a multi-protocol gateway service with WebSphere MQ
DataPower and WebSphere JMS
Course summary
Appendix: Web application firewall service
Appendix Exercise: Creating a firewall and HTTP proxy for a web application
Appendix Exercise: Configuring WebSphere JMS
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.