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CyberLink Computing Cloud Archive Tool for IBM DataPower B2B

Monitor DataPower B2B metadata from multiple DataPower instances in a modern web browser interface

IBM’s DataPower B2B Gateway is a robust B2B solution

that supports a wide range of B2B and file transfer protocols.

The solution has a very basic at-a-glance B2B transaction

viewer which was designed to allow customers to see the

status of all transactions that flow through the B2B Gateway

Service. Unfortunately, the IBM DataPower B2B viewer

was not designed for long retention periods nor does it

perform well when you need to retain more than 700,000

transactions. This means that many DataPower B2B

customers outgrow the on-board B2B Viewer within a year

and either must shorten their retention periods or build

something outside of DataPower to monitor the transactions.

Additionally, the on-board viewer only has visibility of

transactions in a single DataPower instance meaning that

when using DataPower in an Active/Active High

Availability cluster you need to look in two or more places

to see your transactions.

CyberLink Computing LLC, an IBM

Business Partner, has designed a cloud

based solution that allows customers to not

only see all of the transactions that they

archive out of DataPower but also supports

an automated archive process that can push

all completed B2B transactions out of

DataPower on a scheduled process giving

users near real-time access to runtime data

in the Cloud Archive Tool.

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Deployment

This solution is designed to run as a SAAS service in a secured public cloud environment.

❖ Cloud Solution (SAAS)

• Encrypted storage

• Designed for performance

• Automatic scaling

Access and Connection Security

The web interface uses SSL to ensure the connection is secure and user/group access controls to make sure

transactions and accounts are only visible for people with the proper authentication and authorization credentials.

The Admin user for a given account can create other users from the administration screen and can authorize them

to use specific functions or only see specific information based on role.

API Keys are generated and used in the application to identify the DataPower instance being used; it acts as the

unique identifier and secret token for authentication into the service for the purpose of uploading archive data.

This key is used in the Archive Directory URL in the DataPower B2B Gateway Archive tab allowing automated

upload of Archive information based off the archive settings.

Public Cloud

SAAS

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Viable as a replacement for the IBM DataPower B2B Viewer

The Cloud Archive Tool was originally designed to view DataPower B2B historical data utilizing the Archive

files that customers have exported and stored off device. However, due to requirements from DataPower B2B

customers to replace the DataPower B2B Viewer, the ability to make the solution more real-time and support for

transaction resends for both inbound and outbound payloads was added to the solution. This is done using a few

processing rules to trigger the DataPower Archive Now feature on a specified polling interval (i.e. 30 seconds)

and to process resends. These policies are provided by CyberLink Computing and they can easily be imported

into DataPower without impacting existing services. When the Archive Now process is triggered it will leave

any in-flight transactions on DataPower and only push out completed transactions; all transactions pushed to the

CyberLink Computing Cloud Archive Tool are removed from the DataPower B2B Viewer keeping it clutter free

showing only in-flight transactions and transactions waiting to be archived.

Customizable Document Search and Retrieval

The Cloud Archive Tool has a very robust transaction viewer that allows the user to re-order any column, sort on

any column and turn on/off any column they want to see; the rearrangement will be saved upon log off and used

again when you log back on. Additionally, any column can be used as search criteria and your search’s can be

saved and stored in your profile. The transaction view also allows you to drill down into the detail of the

transaction.

Resend transactions from CyberLink Computing’s Cloud Archive Tool

The resend capabilities allows you to manually resend any transaction to your partner or to your back-end. The

transaction is proxied through the DataPower instance that routed the original transaction so any partner that is

using a firewall white list will not reject the transaction and inbound transactions are sent into your network over

a trusted connection. Resends are queued up and sent asynchronously and monitored in the Resend Queue

Monitor. Manual resend historical data is also available in the transaction viewer.

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Reports

The Cloud Archive Tool allows you to instantly export viewer data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to make

it easy to use the data in your own reporting solution. Additionally, you can use our canned reports which will

allow you to see transaction information in a nice PDF Report format.

Ability to import historical data

The solution can be extended to support data from non DataPower sources. For instance, if you have IBM

WebSphere Partner Gateway archive files, these files could be imported into the tool and presented in the

transaction viewer with very little effort. CyberLink Computing offers migration services that can be used to

run a small data migration project to add your data to the Cloud Archive Tool. More information can be found

on www.clcomputing.com

To learn more about CyberLink Computing’s DataPower Cloud Archive Tool, please contact us at

sales@clcomputing.com