Tracking Message Flows in DataPower With CA APM

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Tracking Messages Flows in DataPower with
CA Application Performance Management
Richard Nikula
VP, Product Development and Support
Nastel Technologies, Inc.
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Abstract
Learn If you want to know more about getting the most from IBM DataPower® Gateway
Appliances and viewing results in the CA APM Team Center, this session is for you. The agenda
includes an introduction to the IBM DataPower family of products, the ins and outs of
troubleshooting the most common DataPower issues, and expert instruction on how to track
and analyze message flows. After the presentation, participate in the Q&A segment and let
world-class messaging and middleware expert Richard Nikula of Nastel Technologies answer
your tough questions.
Richard
Nikula
Nastel Technologies, Inc.
VP, Product
Development
and Support

Agenda
INTRODUCTION TO IBM® DATAPOWER GATEWAY APPLIANCES
MONITORING DATAPOWER PERFORMANCE METRICS
TRACKING DATAPOWER MESSAGE FLOWS
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NASTEL AutoPilot® Transaction Tracking
About NASTEL
§ Founded in 1994
§ Middleware-centric Application
Performance Management
software supplier
§ Core competency : Messaging
Middleware, Java Application
Servers, ESB's and other SOA
technologies

What Does NASTEL Do?
We provide enhanced insight into
the processing with these key
middleware components so that
APM customers understand the
behavior of the key elements of
their business systems.

Nastel AutoPilot® Product Line
Insight
Message Tracking
Administration
&
Configuration
Management
Monitoring Self-Service
AutoPilot Insight provides a quick and easy way to
analyze application behavior in real-time in
production, test and development environments.
AutoPilot Insight analyzes data from many diverse
sources such as machine data (logs and metrics),
performance monitoring tools, and open source
software, turning it into operational intelligence.
Its actionable insight helps measure performance,
detect the root-cause of exceptions and improve
capacity planning in as few as two clicks.
AutoPilot TransactionWorks automatically
discovers and tracks your message flows
and transactions as they traverse your
Middleware infrastructure. It correlates or
"stitches" them together to provide a real-
time, actionable visualization (e.g. Flow,
Timeline, Details & Payload, Milestones) of
your business.
AutoPilot On-Demand (APOD)
allows administrators to delegate
access to WMQ environments to
DevOps teams in a secure,
controlled manner. Accessed from
a web browser, DevOps teams can
view and manipulate WMQ
resources by themselves, reducing
support burdens and accelerating
application development
throughput.
AutoPilot provides full lifecycle
management of middleware
resources (i.e. administration and
configuration, performance and
availability monitoring), reduces
workloads for both operations
and middleware teams.
Supported Middleware platforms include:
WMQ, WMQ/FTE, WMB/IIB, DataPower, Solace, TiBCO EMS & RV, etc.

Infrastructure for Modern Applications
Application and Infrastructure Management
Integrated management of the entire application experience
User
Network
Device
Systems of Operations
3rd Party Apps
Databases
Web Services/SAAS
APP
SERVER
Systems of Record
MQ
CICS IMS
Datacom DB2
MIDDLEWARE
TRANSACTIONS DATA
Systems of Engagement
MIDDLEWARE
Cross-Platform
CA Cross-Enterprise APM AutoPilot CA SYSVIEW®

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Introduction to IBM DataPower

IBM DataPower Gateway Appliance Family
§ DataPower XML Security Gateway (XG45)
Entry level variant of DataPower Gateway Appliances
§ DataPower Integration Appliances (XI52)
IBM's hardware ESB – core offering
§ DataPower B2B Appliance (XB62)
Extended B2B capabilities
§ DataPower Edge Appliance (XE82)
Edge-of-network traffic gateway
§ DataPower Caching Appliance (XC10)
240 Gb cache for improved performance

IBM DataPower Gateway Appliances
§ Addresses 3 challenges of SOA: Ease-of-Use, Security, and Performance
§ High performance, firmware-based Enterprise Service Bus
§ "Any-to-any" message brokering, transformation and processing
§ Services can be exposed by using different formats and protocols than the
ones in which they are implemented
§ Protects web services and the architecture behind them from attacks

Service Processing Policy
Processing Policy: Rules containing Actions that are applied to a message
Actions: specific operations applied to a message in a specified sequence
Client Server
REQUEST
RESPONSE
Service Processing Policy

Monitoring DataPower
Performance Metrics

Most Common DataPower Issues
qConfiguration changes
qMisconfigured service policies
qXML formatting issues
qTransaction latency issues
qHigh CPU usage
qMemory growth
qHigh load
qFile system space issues
qNetwork connectivity issues
qUnexpected restart

DataPower Troubleshooting Tasks
üCheck appliance log for error messages
üCheck audit log for configuration changes
üCheck appliance statistics and status
üCheck object status
üCheck length of work queue
üCheck CPU usage
üCheck file system space
üCheck error reports & failure notifications
üCheck log for transaction latency messages
üRun Debug Probe
üRun XML file capture tool
üRun packet capture tool
üEnable Failure Notification
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Troubleshooting DataPower Issues Can be Daunting

How Do You Respond to These Challenges?
Banking
Finance
Claims
Processing
Transport
Logistics
Order
Handling
Payments
Processing
B U S I N E S S A P P L I C AT I O N S
Tracking AnalyticsMonitoring
XOK !

DataPower Management API's for Remote Management
SNMP MIBs
& Trapsa
Publication of Events
to Log Targets
XML Mgt
API'sa
Control
Panel

Instrumenting the DataPower SOA Appliance
Large range of metrics collected
via multiple management API's
§ SNMP
§ Web Services
§ Syslog
§ Command Line

Tracking Message Flows on
IBM DataPower Appliances

Instrumenting DataPower Transactions
Transform Results
Actions
Processing Policy
Policy Rule

Creating the Tracking Event
§ Transform Action
creates a Tracking Event
§ Analogous to the
barcode sticker on a
shipped package
§ Can contain any
information available in
the processing policy

Creating the Tracking Event
§ XSLT stylesheet
§ Tracking event:
§ DataPower variables
§ Message text

Sending the Tracking Event
• Results Async. Action
• Sends Tracking Event to
External Processing Point for
Transaction Monitoring

Monitoring DataPower Transaction Workflows
Tracking Events

Transaction Analysis Views

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