Overview

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD) is a powerful tool providing central self-service, profiling, troubleshooting and management capabilities across all your IBM DataPower Gateways. Using DPOD, you can investigate DataPower services transactions and API-Connect API invocations processed by your DataPower Gateway cluster in near real time, down to the level of a single message.

See DPOD Documentation page for a quick overview video which briefly highlights the DPOD features.

Dashboards

Transactions

Configuration Management

Reports and Alerts

Maintenance Plans

Backup

DPOD can perform scheduled or ad-hoc backups of the DataPower gateways it manages. It creates secure backups (encrypted backups which include private data such as certificates and keys) or standard backups (domains export), making sure you can restore the DataPower gateways in case of a disaster.

Firmware Upgrade

DPOD can upgrade the firmware level of the DataPower gateways it manages. Once the firmware image is uploaded to the DPOD server, it may be applied to one or more gateways, following IBM’s best practices such as performing a quiesce, restarting the gateway before applying the firmware image, etc.

Configuration Synchronization

DPOD can keep domains (or entire gateways) in-sync by regularly exporting source domains and importing them into target domains. Use this feature to make sure all the gateways in your disaster recovery data center have the same configuration as the gateways in your primary data center.

Appliance Migration

Use DPOD to easily migrate the configuration from an old DataPower physical appliance (such as IDG) to a new DataPower physical appliance (such as X3). DPOD includes a wizard-style process which performs everything you need to successfully migrate to the new appliance.

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Appliance Migration - IDG to X3 (2 min.)

Roles and Permissions