Tracking Message Flows in DataPower With CA APM

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Abstract

LearnIfyouwanttoknowmoreaboutgettingthemostfromIBMDataPower®GatewayAppliancesandviewingresultsintheCAAPMTeamCenter,thissessionisforyou.TheagendaincludesanintroductiontotheIBMDataPower familyofproducts,theinsandoutsoftroubleshootingthemostcommonDataPower issues,andexpertinstructiononhowtotrackandanalyzemessageflows.Afterthepresentation,participateintheQ&Asegmentandletworld-classmessagingandmiddlewareexpertRichardNikula ofNastel Technologiesansweryourtoughquestions.

RichardNikulaNastel Technologies,Inc.VP,ProductDevelopmentandSupport


Agenda

INTRODUCTIONTOIBM®DATAPOWER GATEWAYAPPLIANCES

MONITORINGDATAPOWER PERFORMANCEMETRICS

TRACKINGDATAPOWER MESSAGEFLOWS

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NASTELAutoPilot®TransactionTracking

AboutNASTEL

§ Foundedin1994§ Middleware-centricApplication

PerformanceManagementsoftwaresupplier

§ Corecompetency:MessagingMiddleware,JavaApplicationServers,ESB'sandotherSOAtechnologies


WhatDoesNASTELDo?

WeprovideenhancedinsightintotheprocessingwiththesekeymiddlewarecomponentssothatAPMcustomersunderstandthebehaviorofthekeyelementsoftheirbusinesssystems.


NastelAutoPilot®ProductLine

Insight

MessageTracking

Administration&

ConfigurationManagement

Monitoring Self-Service

AutoPilot Insightprovidesaquickandeasywaytoanalyzeapplicationbehaviorinreal-timeinproduction,testanddevelopmentenvironments.AutoPilot Insightanalyzesdatafrommanydiversesourcessuchasmachinedata(logsandmetrics),performancemonitoringtools,andopensourcesoftware,turningitintooperationalintelligence.Itsactionableinsighthelpsmeasureperformance,detecttheroot-causeofexceptionsandimprovecapacityplanninginasfewastwoclicks.

AutoPilot TransactionWorks automaticallydiscoversandtracksyourmessageflowsandtransactionsastheytraverseyourMiddlewareinfrastructure.Itcorrelatesor"stitches"themtogethertoprovideareal-time,actionablevisualization(e.g.Flow,Timeline,Details&Payload,Milestones)ofyourbusiness.

AutoPilot On-Demand(APOD)allowsadministratorstodelegateaccesstoWMQenvironmentstoDevOpsteamsinasecure,controlledmanner.Accessedfromawebbrowser,DevOpsteamscanviewandmanipulateWMQresourcesbythemselves,reducingsupportburdensandacceleratingapplicationdevelopmentthroughput.

AutoPilot providesfulllifecyclemanagementofmiddlewareresources(i.e.administrationandconfiguration,performanceandavailabilitymonitoring),reducesworkloadsforbothoperationsandmiddlewareteams.

SupportedMiddlewareplatformsinclude:WMQ,WMQ/FTE,WMB/IIB,DataPower,Solace,TiBCO EMS&RV,etc.


InfrastructureforModernApplications

ApplicationandInfrastructureManagement

Integratedmanagementoftheentireapplicationexperience

User

Network

Device

SystemsofOperations

3rd PartyApps

Databases

WebServices/SAAS

APPSERVER

SystemsofRecord

MQ

CICSIMS

Datacom DB2

MIDDL

EWAR

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TRAN

SACT

IONS

DATA

SystemsofEngagement

MIDDLEWARE

Cross-Platform

CACross-EnterpriseAPM AutoPilot CASYSVIEW®

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Introduction to IBM DataPower


IBMDataPowerGatewayApplianceFamily

§ DataPower XMLSecurityGateway(XG45)EntrylevelvariantofDataPower GatewayAppliances

§ DataPower IntegrationAppliances(XI52)IBM'shardwareESB– coreoffering

§ DataPower B2BAppliance(XB62)ExtendedB2Bcapabilities

§ DataPower EdgeAppliance(XE82)Edge-of-networktrafficgateway

§ DataPower CachingAppliance(XC10)240Gbcacheforimprovedperformance


IBMDataPowerGatewayAppliances

§ Addresses3challengesofSOA:Ease-of-Use,Security,andPerformance§ Highperformance,firmware-basedEnterpriseServiceBus§ "Any-to-any"messagebrokering,transformationandprocessing§ Servicescanbeexposedbyusingdifferentformatsandprotocolsthanthe

onesinwhichtheyareimplemented§ Protectswebservicesandthearchitecturebehindthemfromattacks


ServiceProcessingPolicy

ProcessingPolicy:RulescontainingActionsthatareappliedtoamessageActions:specificoperationsappliedtoamessageinaspecifiedsequence

Client Server

REQUEST

RESPONSE

ServiceProcessingPolicy


Monitoring DataPowerPerformance Metrics


MostCommonDataPowerIssues

qConfigurationchanges

qMisconfiguredservicepolicies

qXMLformattingissues

qTransactionlatencyissues

qHighCPUusage

qMemorygrowth

qHighload

qFilesystemspaceissues

qNetworkconnectivityissues

qUnexpectedrestart


DataPowerTroubleshootingTasks

üCheckappliancelogforerrormessages

üCheckauditlogforconfigurationchanges

üCheckappliancestatisticsandstatus

üCheckobjectstatus

üChecklengthofworkqueue

üCheckCPUusage

üCheckfilesystemspace

üCheckerrorreports&failurenotifications

üChecklogfortransactionlatencymessages

üRunDebugProbe

üRunXMLfilecapturetool

üRunpacketcapturetool

üEnableFailureNotification

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TroubleshootingDataPowerIssuesCanbeDaunting


HowDoYouRespondtoTheseChallenges?

BankingFinance

ClaimsProcessing

TransportLogistics

OrderHandling

PaymentsProcessing

B U S I N E S S A P P L I C AT I O N S

Tracking AnalyticsMonitoring

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DataPowerManagementAPI'sforRemoteManagement

SNMPMIBs&Trapsa

PublicationofEventstoLogTargets

XMLMgtAPI'sa

ControlPanel


InstrumentingtheDataPower SOAAppliance

LargerangeofmetricscollectedviamultiplemanagementAPI's

§ SNMP§ WebServices§ Syslog§ CommandLine


Tracking Message Flows on IBM DataPower Appliances


InstrumentingDataPower Transactions

Transform Results

Actions

ProcessingPolicy

PolicyRule


CreatingtheTrackingEvent§ TransformActioncreatesaTrackingEvent

§ Analogoustothebarcodestickeronashippedpackage

§ Cancontainanyinformationavailableintheprocessingpolicy


CreatingtheTrackingEvent§ XSLTstylesheet

§ Trackingevent:§ DataPowervariables§ Messagetext


SendingtheTrackingEvent

• ResultsAsync.Action• SendsTrackingEventto

ExternalProcessingPointforTransactionMonitoring


MonitoringDataPower TransactionWorkflowsTrackingEvents


TransactionAnalysisViews


Questions?


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