Technology
IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager System Edition (ITCAM SE) for WebSphere DataPower V6.1.0 provides robust multibox management capabilities for DataPower SOA appliances by enabling appliance administrators to efficiently roll out, update, and manage configurations on multiple DataPower appliances. ITCAM SE for WebSphere DataPower provides a set of capabilities for managing groups of DataPower devices including:
Creating a centralized list of devices
Creating a centralized firmware repository
Defining device clusters that are intended to share similar configuration
Automatically synchronizing firmware, sharable device settings, and service domain definitions
Discovering and propagating changes within a cluster
Managing version control of firmware, sharable device settings, and service domain definitions with roll back capability
Tracking of device synchronization and operation state
ITCAM SE for WebSphere DataPower is available as a download at no additional charge.
For more advanced SOA and Web services management capabilities and full cross-platform support users can upgrade by purchasing IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA (ITCAM for SOA). ITCAM for SOA monitors, manages and controls the Web services layer of IT architectures. Because ITCAM SE for WebSphere DataPower is based on the same technology, upgrading to ITCAM for SOA is very simple.