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WE401V1 - Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V5

Reference course outline

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Duration

5 days

Audience

This course is designed for integration developers who configure service policies on IBM WebSphere DataPower

SOA Appliances.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should be familiar with:

  • 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 VW406, Technical Introduction to WebSphere DataPower V5, to gain the basic DataPower knowledge that you need in this course.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, you should 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

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 Data

Power 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

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.