Task Oriented Scripting for DataPower

DPAdmin, a product from iSOAGroup provides a scripting interface for IBM WebSphere DataPower among many other features.

A sample DPAdmin script is shown below.



As you can see from the example shown above, DPAdmin scripting allows the user to create multiple concurrent flows within a script allowing cluster deployments in parallel and also allowing sequencial task execution within a particular flow. DPAdmin scripts can execute a wide varierty of commands ranging from Configuration Management, File Management, Cache Control, Domain Management and a wide array of other functions.

DPAdmin scripts are xml based and platform independant and allows the user to perform deployments and administration functions in a repeatable and error free manner.

DPAdmin scripts can be trigerred by shell scripts, batch scripts or other build management tools.

DPAdmin not only provides scripting mode, but also a menu driven shell mode where users can execute DataPower commands by making easy to use menu driven interface as shown below.



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Fine grained export/import solution for IBM DataPower

Selective Export/Import for DataPower

I would like to introduce you to DPAdmin, a product from iSOAGroup that supports fine grained Export/Import among many other features when it comes to IBM WebSphere DataPower administration/automation.

Shown below is a sample XML that is an input for export commands in DPAdmin. As you can see from the XML, the export allows you to control the services that gets exported for service migration across envrironments.




Now that takes care of exporting selective services from one environment to another. But how would you take care of dynamically changing environment specific properties like port, backend hosts etc?

Yes. DPAdmin has a solution for that as well. DPAdmin supports dynamic imports where it can apply DataPower supported Deployment Policies during the import.

DPAdmin provides a scripting solution to make configuration management of DataPower across multiple devices and multiple environments extremely easy.

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DataPower Administration and Automation using DPAdmin

I would like to introduce you to an administration and automation solution for IBM WebSphere DataPower. Have you ever asked yourself the following questions?

• How do I perform automated deployments in DataPower using easy to use scripts similar to ANT?
• Is there a way to make deployments to a cluster of DataPower devices in parallel, saving time and money and mistake free ofcourse?
• I love solutions like wsadmin for WebSphere application server, Is there something similar for DataPower?
• Is there a way to do orchestrated, task oriented deployments for DataPower using platform independant scripts?
• I have always loved shell based command line tools that are menu driven and I would like to use something similar for datapower..Is there anything similar to that?
• Our organization needs accountability for important commands that are run on our production and staging DataPower devices, Is there a way to capture administration commands and report it later in a user friendly manner?

If you can relate to any of the questions shown above, then you should take a look at DPAdmin, a product from iSOAGroup to help administer and automate IBM WebSphere DataPower.

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