29 articles tagged DataPower.
A long time ago, I was doing integration architecture work in the land of Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) and API Gateways. Think IBM WebSphere DataPower and Apigee — I like to remember Apigee the way it was before it was integrated into GCP. After we had designed and built the ESB, we moved on to…
Read article: A Vendor DMZ PatternThe primary administration automation mechanism on IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances is the XML Management Interface. The XMI interface allows one to make SOMA (SOAP Configuration Management, assuming SOMA = SOap MAnagement) calls to perform various administration tasks. How to perform these…
Read article: Datapower SOMA CallsWhile working with DataPower and Active Directory (acting as the User Repository) I have often run into situation where AD returns an LDAP error code 49 plus a sub-code in the error string that is unique to AD. The sub-code can be very useful to troubleshooting, if you know what it means.
Read article: Active Directory Return CodesIn the last post, we saw how an XML Firewall in loopback mode could be used to return a valid SOAP response to a service message. The stylesheet used simply returned a static SOAP response that was independent of the input parameters. The stylesheet returns a response containing the sum of two…
Read article: Some Simple Updates To A DataPower XSLT stylesheet.It is often the case that a DataPower developer will have work to do, but does not yet have a backend Service Provider to point the DataPower service at. In general, anything beyond trivial examples will need to point at something that returns a valid response. In order to satisfy this requirement,…
Read article: SOAP Web Service Mockup tutorial on DataPowerEver since I was first started working with IBM WebSphere DataPower I was looking around for someone that was offering access to a IBM WebSphere Datapower, I was looking around for someone that was offering access to an Internet-facing appliance that I could use for experimenting and learning. I…
Read article: DataPower Access Rental—Maybe DataPower in the Cloud?I generally recommend to clients that DataPower RBM (Role-Based Management) be configured to perform authentication and authorization of DataPower administrators and developers with LDAP. In particular, whatever respository serves as the central repository of user information should be used (of…
Read article: RBM–Administrative Access & Security for DataPowerI’ve been in a couple of shops that have used the HSM module option of DataPower for FIPS 140-2 v2 or v3 compliance. An HSM is a Hardware Security Module. My understanding is that there is a short list of IBM customers that are using this technology. I thought collecting all the information and…
Read article: DataPower Appliances & HSMsI was recently presented with an opportunity to be clever while promoting DataPower objects from a development environment to a testing environment. The WS-Proxy object’s policy rules had a Transform Action that ran a custom stylesheet. The stylesheet referenced a configuration file that was kept…
Read article: DataPower Exports and XML Files Referenced by StylesheetsAnyone who has worked with DataPower for a while has gotten into a situation where they need to rename a service object (XML Firewall, WS-Proxy, Multi-Protocol Gateway, etc). There isn’t a rename button that I have ever found. This tutorial will describe two ways of renaming such objects.
Read article: How To Rename a WS-Proxy or Multi-Protocol Gateway Object on a DataPower Appliance
