Intended Audience

This guide addresses different types of users:

• DataPower Developers

• API Providers

• API Consumers

Built-in User Roles

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD) provides administrators the capability to assign various roles to users. Your administrator will set you up with one or more of the following built-in roles, depending on what tasks you need to perform in DPOD.

• See Security Roles to learn more about the available built-in roles.

Features and Benefits

DPOD provides these features and benefits:

• Self-service port-of-call for developers and service-providers, independent of DataPower administrators

• Multiple service dashboards providing at-glance overview of the system’s status from various views including services, devices, domains and transactions.

• Drill-down capabilities into a system’s transactions and assets, to help pinpoint problems for investigation

• Means to investigate errors across the system

• Aids for debugging failed transactions or services, allowing full-data traces

• Robust transactions log views

• Near real time monitoring

By using DPOD you can effectively identify and resolve performance or security related issues that have occurred on your system.
DPOD provides various views and tools that let you gauge the system’s health, identify errors and investigate their causes.