Using the DataPower appliance manager
The DataPower® appliance manager automatically starts if you issue a request to the DataPower appliance manager and it is not already started. You can initiate a request using the wsadmin tool, or by selecting any of the administrative console pages that enable you to view or change settings for DataPower appliances, firmware, or managed sets, or the administrative console page that is used to monitor DataPower appliance manager tasks. The appliance manager also automatically starts when the deployment manager starts if there are any DataPower appliances configured in the appliance manager.
Before you begin
The first time that you use the DataPower appliance manager, you must add at least one appliance to the appliance manager. Before adding an appliance to the appliance manager, you must verify that:
- The appliance that you are adding is at a Version 3.6.0.4 or higher firmware level. The appliance manager cannot manage an appliances that is not at a Version 3.6.0.4 or higher firmware level.
- The appliance manager can communicate with the port that is used for the XML Management interface AMP endpoint on the appliance. The appliance manager uses this port to send commands to an appliance.
- The appliance can communicate with the port that is used for the DataPowerMgr_inbound_secure endpoint on the deployment manager. The appliance uses this port to send events to the appliance manager.
- The Appliance Management Protocol (AMP) endpoint is enabled for each appliance. If the XML Management interface AMP endpoint was disabled during installation, use the DataPower WebGUI to enable the AMP endpoint.
- There is not a firewall between the deployment manager and the appliances that will be part of a managed set. If there is a firewall between the deployment manager and the appliances, that firewall might prevent the appliance manager from communicating with the appliances in a managed set.
About this task
When the DataPower appliance manager starts, it automatically starts the channel chain which causes a bind to the port that is defined for the DataPower appliance manager.
To access the DataPower appliance manager, in the administrative console, click
, and then perform one or more of the following actions. As previously stated, if this is the first time that you are using the DataPower appliance manager, you must add at least one appliance to the appliance manager before completing any of the other actions.If you need to shut down the DataPower appliance manager, in the administrative console, click
, and then click .Procedure
- Add an appliance to the DataPower appliance manager.
- Add a new firmware version to the DataPower appliance manager.
- Create a new managed set.
- Monitor the tasks that are queued for the DataPower appliance manager
- Modify appliance manager settings.
- Manage the DataPower appliance domins.
- View the managed domains history.
- Manage versions of sharable appliance settings.