29 articles tagged DataPower.
The definition of the word ownership has varying meanings across organizations, but there is always a group that retains control of the technology. It’s typically the group that sponsored the adoption of the technology and owns day-to-day support of it. But, sometimes, the technology initiative…
Read article: Who Owns DataPower Within An Organization?DataPower has a serial port console that is used during initial bootstrap of the appliance, recovering from problems, and certain configuration changes. Having access to the serial console is the only feasible approach to resolving certain issues that arise with any appliance (or piece of network…
Read article: DataPower and Terminal Servers…DataPower is a weird (but, wonderful) beast. It has a tendency to break some of the traditional IT silos that develop within infrastructure groups. That can lead to a lot of friction and amusing arguments in which everyone is simply talking past one another. In this post, I want to describe the…
Read article: WebSphere DataPower Roles and Responsibilities…I have been in several different shops that are either deploying DataPower or are a few years after deploying DataPower. I’ve also had opportunities to talk to numerous different DataPower technical resources about how they have utilized DataPower. In the post, I want to describe what I’ve seen as…
Read article: Three Internal Architectures—Designs for DataPower DeploymentsI’ve been playing with Cisco switches and routers recently at home to get a handle on VLANs-more about VLANs later. Some people I know who have gotten involved in DataPower started out in system administration or networking and worked their way up the technology stack to SOA Appliances (WebSphere…
Read article: OSI 7-Layer Network ModelA couple of weeks ago I wrote a brief post about how to generate symmetric keys that can be used with DataPower. It demonstrates how to generate shared keys of various lengths using the Unix dd command. Today, someone asked how a shared key (or symmetric key) can be generated using the openssl…
Read article: Symmetric Keys—AddendumI will be leading a discussion panel at IBM Impact 2012 in Las Vegas on Monday, April 30th, 3:45-4pm. More information can be found here. It will be an open ended discussion and Q&A session detailing experiences rolling out IBM technology for an ESB. I’ve done this at a couple of different…
Read article: IBM Impact 2012 Client Panel: Experiences with IBM SOA Stack RolloutAnyone who has spent time working with DataPower has had to write an XSLT stylesheet at some point. DataPower provides a library of functions and elements that provide access to various DataPower functionality.
Read article: DataPower Extension Functions and ElementsXSLT is the only scripting language supported by WebSphere DataPower appliances. It is the only way to customize DataPower functionality and behavior. So, anyone that works with DataPower for a while will sooner be writing XSLT stylesheets.
Read article: XSLT & XPathI often have to go back and look up these details; so, I decided to post a standard starting point for a new stylesheet.
Read article: Sample Stylesheet—Starting Point
