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Overview
| Course code | WE401 | Skill level | Basic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 5.0 days | Delivery type | Classroom
(Hands-on labs) |
| Course type | Public or Private on-site | ||
| Public price | USD $3,875.00 plus tax |
This course is also available as instructor-led online course Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V5 (VE401).
In this 5-day, instructor-led course, you learn the fundamental skills that are required to implement IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 5.0.
The IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances allow an enterprise to simplify, accelerate, and enhance the security capabilities of its Extensible Markup Language (XML) and web services deployments, and extend the capabilities of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure.
Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to implement the key use cases for the DataPower appliances. These include XML acceleration and threat protection, web service virtualization, web services security, integrating with IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Java Message Service (JMS), and authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA). You also learn how to use various problem determination tools such as logs, monitors, and probes, as well as techniques for testing DataPower services and handling errors.
Hands-on exercises give you experience working directly with an IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance. The exercises focus on skills such as creating XML firewalls, working with encryption and cryptographic objects, configuring service level monitoring, troubleshooting services, and handling errors.
The lab environment for this course uses the Linux platform within a VMware image.
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Audience
This basic course is designed for integration developers who configure service policies on IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances.
Prerequisites
You should be familiar with:
- Security-based concepts and protocols
- XML-related technologies such as XML schema, XPath, and XSLT
- Web service fundamentals and the web services security specifications
You should also successfully complete course Technical Introduction to WebSphere DataPower V5 (VW406), to gain basic DataPower knowledge that you need in this course.
Skills taught
- Describe how WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances are configured, including the role of XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- Configure a DataPower service to protect against a new class of XML-based threats
- Create a web service proxy to virtualize web service applications
- Implement web services security
- Create and configure cryptographic objects
- Configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to and from WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Configure a multi-protocol gateway (MPGW) to handle multiple protocols for a single service
- Configure a service level monitoring (SLM) policy to handle service processing violations
- Enforce service level policies to manage traffic to and from WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- Configure support for IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Java Message Service (JMS)
- Use logs and probes to troubleshoot services
- Handle errors in service policies
Course outline
- Course introduction
- DataPower administration overview
- Exercise: Exercise setup
- Introduction to XSL transformations
- Exercise: Creating XSL transformations
- DataPower services overview
- Structure of a service
- Exercise: Creating a simple XML firewall
- Multi-protocol gateway service
- Problem determination tools
- Exercise: Creating an advanced multi-protocol gateway
- Handling errors in a service policy
- Exercise: Adding error handling to a service policy
- DataPower cryptographic tools
- Exercise: Creating cryptographic objects
- Using SSL to secure connections
- Exercise: Using SSL to secure connections
- XML threat protection
- Exercise: Protecting against XML threats
- Web service proxy service
- Exercise: Configuring a web service proxy
- XML and web services security overview
- Exercise: Web service encryption and digital signatures
- Authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA)
- Exercise: Web service authentication and authorization
- Monitoring objects
- Exercise: Creating message counter monitors for a AAA policy
- Configuring LDAP by using AAA
- Exercise: Creating a AAA policy by using LDAP
- OAuth overview and DataPower implementation
- Service level monitoring
- Exercise: Implementing an SLM monitor in a web service proxy
- Integration with WebSphere MQ
- Exercise: Configuring a multi-protocol gateway service with WebSphere MQ
- DataPower and WebSphere JMS
- Course summary
- Appendix: Web application firewall service
- Appendix Exercise: Creating a firewall and HTTP proxy for a web application
- Appendix Exercise: Configuring WebSphere JMS