Configuring transaction tracking for the DataPower agent

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To display transaction tracking data for DataPower appliances in the middleware and topology dashboards, you must enable transaction tracking for the DataPower® agent.

Before you begin

  • Install the DataPower agent and configure it to connect to the DataPower appliance.
  • Enable monitoring for SOAP or ARM in the DataPower appliance.

Procedure

To enable transaction tracking for the DataPower agent, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation bar, click System Configuration icon System Configuration > Agent Configuration.
  2. On the DataPower tab, select the agent instances for which you want to enable transaction tracking.
  3. Select Actions > Set Transaction Tracking > Enabled to enable transaction tracking. The status of the agent in the Transaction Tracking column is updated to Enabled.

Results

You have enabled transaction tracking for the selected agent instances.

What to do next

To see data for a DataPower appliance in the middleware and topology dashboards, you must now add the appliances that you want to monitor to the Application Performance Dashboard. For further information about adding a DataPower appliance to the Application Performance Dashboard, see Adding middleware applications to the Application Performance Dashboard.
Note: If you are using Integration Services and you want to monitor the data that is transmitted between IBM Integration Bus and DataPower, additional configuration is required to show an accurate Aggregate Transaction Topology. The IBM® Integration Bus agent cannot include correlation support for SOAP messages without a SOAP envelope. SOAPRequest nodes, SOAPAsyncRequest nodes, and SOAPReply nodes may accept messages without SOAP Envelopes as input messages. For these nodes, there is no relationship displayed in the topology view from the mediation to the downstream mediation or the application server. To avoid this problem, insert a SOAPEnvelope node immediately before the SOAPRequest, SOAPAsyncRequest, or SOAPReply nodes in your IBM Integration Bus message flow, and select the Create new envelope option for the SOAPEnvelope node to add a SOAP envelope for the SOAP message.