WebSphere Appliance Management Center for WebSphere Appliances is a no-charge downloadable offering that simplifies the management and monitoring of environments that consist of multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances. The management component of WebSphere Appliance Management Center is a web application that provides multibox operational management for WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. By using the management component, system administrators can easily and quickly carry out WebSphere DataPower Appliance administration tasks:

• Managing firmware across multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances
• Performing backup and restore operations
• Managing domain and service configuration

WebSphere Appliance Management Center also includes IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) Agent for WebSphere DataPower Appliances. You can use this feature to monitor multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances, collect key metrics, and present them in a central location. 

WebSphere Appliance Management Center supports the management and monitoring of a various WebSphere DataPower Appliance types and models.

  Management component  

The management component of WebSphere Appliance Management Center for WebSphere Appliances is a web-based graphical interface. WebSphere DataPower administrators use this component to manage their WebSphere DataPower Appliances from a single, central location.

WebSphere Appliance Management Center provides the following functions:

• Quick status overview at the appliance, application domain, and service levels
• Disaster recovery by using secure backup and restore
• Firmware management that allows for firmware operations on multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances in a single action
• Traffic processing management with quiesce and unquiesce operations at the appliance, application domain, and service levels
• The ability to create, update, and delete application domains across multiple appliances
• The ability to create, update, and delete services on application domains
• The ability to upload a file to a domain
• The ability to restart appliances and restart application domains

  Monitoring component

 

The monitoring component of WebSphere Appliance Management Center includes the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) Agent for WebSphere DataPower Appliances. IBM Tivoli Monitoring consists of a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. The monitoring component can be used to monitor multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances, collect key metrics, and present these metrics in a central location.

• ITCAM monitors the following metrics at the WebSphere DataPower Appliance level:
• Resource utilization
• Object status
• System log
• Event notifications
• Transaction latency
• Network and connection statistics

  ITCAM also supports subnodes to make it easy to monitor multiple WebSphere DataPower Appliances with one agent. ITCAM monitors remotely through SOAP Configuration Management (SOMA) requests for WebSphere DataPower Appliances or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliances. ITCAM can also monitor the system logs of a WebSphere DataPower Appliance.