Administration Course Details
- Explain the role of XML in a
service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Define and describe common use
cases for the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Compare and contrast features
in the IBM WebSphere
- DataPower SOA Appliance product
line
- DataPower architectures
- Describe best practices for
deploying DataPower appliances in an enterprise architecture
- Learning Objectives
- Describe the new functions
introduced
- Connect to the command-line
interface (CLI) using a serial port
- Enable the Web management
interface using CLI
- Identify the supported network
services
- Prepare the hard drives or
flash drive
- Describe file transfer
support
- Determine specific port numbers
for subsequent exercises
- Download and install the
required software
- Configure an FTP Poller Front
Side Handler
- Code a url-open extension
element to GET and PUT a file from an FTP server
- DataPower variables and
extensions
- Deploy XSLT stylesheets that
utilize DataPower extension functions
- Hands-on
- Write a routing style sheet
that uses an external routing XML file
- Create a Web service proxy
service with a no cache XML manager
- Create a basic service policy
that uses a remote XSL style sheet to perform dynamic routing using an
external file
- Message enrichment with
DataPower SQL functionality
- Use DataPower appliances to
enable information as a service and perform message enrichment
- Perform SQL queries on a
database from a DataPower service policy
- Execute database stored
procedures in a DataPower service policy
- Create a SQL Data Source
- Access a SQL database using an
sql action
- Access a SQL database using the
sql-execute() extension function
- Access control using DataPower
security policies
- Identify the security
technologies supported by DataPower appliances
- Implement access control using
an access management system such as Tivoli Access Manager
- Implement single sign-on
between a DataPower appliance and a back-end application server
- Define WS-Policies
- Building custom security
policies using the AAA framework
- Identify the steps in a AAA
policy
- Customize a AAA policy using
the AAA framework
- Enforce access control using
LDAP in a AAA policy
- Create a custom style sheet for
the Extract Identity step
- Customize the Authenticate step
using LDAP extension functions
- Performing binary
transformations using WebSphere Transformation Extender
- Describe the WebSphere
Transformation Extender Type Designer and Map Designer
- Create a policy rule that uses
the WebSphere Transformation Extender map files to transform between
Extensible Markup Language (XML) and non-XML documents
- Configure DataPower to use a
WTX that was created by WTX Design Studio
- Use the xformbin action to
transform between XML and COBOL
- Using FTP with DataPower
- Describe the functionality of
the FTP protocol
- Describe how DataPower
appliances can be used with FTP Secure FTP (FTPS), and SSH File Transfer
Protocol (SFTP)
- Configure the FTP SFTP and FTP
over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol handlers
- Use the url-open extension
function to programmatically use the FTP protocol
- Managing firmware
- Download the appropriate
firmware based on the appliance configuration
- Perform firmware upgrades using
the Web management interface and CLI
- DataPower services
overview
- List the services supported on
the DataPower appliance
- Compare and contrast the
features supported by each DataPower appliance
- List the service types
- DataPower administration
overview
- List the methods that can be
used to administer the DataPower appliance
- Work with files on the
DataPower appliance
- Determine the status of various
aspects of the appliance
- Perform secure backup and
restore
- Quiesce traffic to the
appliance
- Managing domains
- Create user accounts, user
groups, and domains using the WebGUI
- Restrict access to objects
within a domain using the role-based management (RBM) policy builder
- Perform WebGUI authentication
using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Configure an authentication,
authorization, and auditing (AAA) policy to authenticate users using IBM
Tivoli Directory Server
- Configure a AAA policy to
authorize users using an XML file
- CLI administration
- Log on to the CLI interface
using the SSH service
- Create DataPower objects using
the CLI interface
- Perform scripting operations
using the exec command
- Create user accounts that can
access the CLI interface
- Import domain configuration
from an external HTTP server using the CLI interface
- Modify references to
cryptographic objects using the CLI interface
- Clustering and failover
- Implement a standby
configuration for failover of DataPower appliances
- Use hardware load balancers to
manage traffic entering into a cluster of DataPower appliances
- Send messages from a DataPower
load balancer group to a set of servers running in a cluster
- XML Management Interface
- Configure the XML management
interface to enable SOAP requests
- Submit requests to the XML
management interface to modify service configuration
- Retrieve status information
from the DataPower appliance using the XML management interface
- Create DataPower objects using
the XML management interface
- Modify service objects using
the XML management interface
- Export domain configuration
using the XML management interface
- Troubleshooting
- Configure the default system
log for debugging
- Identify the troubleshooting
tools available on the DataPower appliance
- Explain how to configure a
multi-step probe to conduct message-level debugging
- Set up and analyze the default
system logs
- Configure a multi-step probe to
conduct message-level process debugging
- Apply and roll back firmware
changes to a set of DataPower appliances from a single user
interface
- Back up device and domain
configuration onto the local file system
- Explain how IBM Tivoli
Composite Application for SOA differs from IBM Tivoli Composite
Application Manager System Edition and the WebSphere Application Server V7
DataPower Appliance Manager
- DataPower cryptographic tools
and SSL setup
- Describe how to generate
cryptographic keys using the DataPower tools
- Create a crypto identification
credential object containing matching public and private keys
- Create a crypto validation
credential to validate certificates
- Set up certificate monitoring
to ensure that certificates are up to date
- Configure a DataPower appliance
to communicate using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Associate an SSL proxy profile
with keys and certificates
- Configure a user agent to
initiate requests
- Generate cryptographic keys
using the DataPower crypto tools
- Create a crypto identification
credential using a crypto key and certificate object
- Validate certificates using a
validation credential object
- Create an SSL proxy profile to
accept SSL connections from a client
- Logging and log targets
- Describe the publish/subscribe
model of log targets and log events
- Define log levels, event
categories, and event codes
- Create a log target to capture
messages generated by objects on the appliance
- Configure a log target to write
messages to an external system
- Use xsl:message to write event
and message data from within a stylesheet
- Configure a log action
- Describe the purpose of a
Management Information Base (MIB)
- Enable Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) support in the appliance
- Limit access to the SNMP
data
- Configure an SNMP
trap/notification
- Test log target configuration
using the Generate Log Event action
- Create a log target that
subscribes to specific log categories
- Create a log target that sends
log messages to an external logging system
- Use IBM Tivoli Composite
Application Manager System Edition to view Management Information Base
(MIB) information about the DataPower appliance
- Configuration migration
- Migrate domain configuration
from a development environment to production
- Use host aliases in a service
configuration to avoid hard-coding of network addresses
- Identify development best
practices to ensure the smooth exporting of configurations
- Configure a domain for remote
configuration mode
- Define an Import Configuration
File (import package)
- Create an Include Configuration
File
- Use an identity document to
externalize site-specific information
- Appliance management
tools
- Use IBM Tivoli Composite
Application Manager System Edition and the WebSphere Application Server
V7
- Administrative tools to:
Version domains when the configuration changes on a DataPower
appliance
- Service monitoring
- List the internal and external
monitoring options for DataPower services
- Describe the sanctioning
actions that can be enforced when a service’s traffic exceeds the defined
threshold
- Specify anti-virus checking for
a service
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