DataPower Overview

Brief Description:

IBM® WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52 is a non-disruptive network device that provides common
message transformation, integration and routing functions on a single platform. It is a purpose-built hardware device that is
easier-to-deploy, highly scalable and helps reduce IT complexity, lower operational costs and improve performance.

Device Features and Capacity:

The current DataPower hardware 71XX platforms (7198 and 7199) offer both 1U and 2U appliances. The size of a piece of
rack-mounted equipment is frequently described as a number in "U". For example, one rack unit is often referred to as "1U",
2 rack units as "2U" and so on.

DP Model Hard Disk RAM End of Service End of Life

7199-42X XI52: 2Units Four 600 GB HDD 8GB 30/06/2017 30/06/2019

Box# Hostname IPAddress Total Ports TPS Total Services Total CP’s
Used
New DP Box# 1 EBIZDP05 172.21.3.65 336
240 60 324
New DP Box# 2 EBIZDP06 172.21.3.66 310
DR Server EBIZDP07 172.16.129.91
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Impact Details

Domains Services CP’s

30 60 324

• Few services Revenue Impact details per Day

• BMG : 900K/Day
• ETUB:600K/Day
• iShare: 20k/Day
DP
• MyMaxis App – 400K customer base.
• RedApp – 800K Customer base.
• Banking services will have huge impact Microsoft Excel
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Setup

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Existing Architecture

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Monitoring

• WAMC – IBM Websphere Appliance Management Center is an open source tool recommended by IBM for IBM
DataPower boxes…
• Monitoring.
• Backups
• New Configurations
Daily Health
• Firmware Upgrades Report

• Connects to DataPower boxes through XML proxy port 5550.

• Probes to collect data from DataPower boxes at a customizable refresh interval. Default interval 60 seconds.
• As XML proxy port 5550 is not utilized by other services, the resource utilization on DataPower boxes is minimal.
• No additional consumption of DP resources.

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 Production NW Load Balancer-58.71.130.105

58.71.131.109 172.21.3.64 58.71.131.109 58.71.131.83 172.21.3.66 172.21.3.64

58.71.131.82 172.21.3.65 . .

Cluster FE VIP Prod FE Cluster BE VIP Cluster BE Cluster FE VIP

Prod BE Prod BE Prod FE
VIP
ACTIVE/PASSIVE ACTIVE/PASSIVE
Stag FE Stag BE MGMT Hearbeat MGMT Stag FE Stag BE

10.200.64.65 10.200.64.66
202.122.156.68
. 172.21.33.97 202.122.156.69 172.21.33.98
Maxis Ent NW

Staging NW-202.122.56.70

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