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Description : How to integrate MQ with Datapower?

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Description : How to take secure backup?

Last Answer :  To securely back up the appliance configuration from the WebGUI:  Click Administration => Main => System Control.  Locate the Secure Backup section.  From the Crypto certificate list, select the ... of the target directory for the backup files.  Click Secure Backup to back up the appliance.

Description : What are the different modes through which you can connect to Datapower?

Last Answer :  GUI  CLI  XML-Management Interface

Description : What is an Application Domain?

Last Answer : An application domain allows the administrators to partition an appliance into multiple logical configurations. For example the developers and production employees environment is different

Description : Explain about your Roles and Responsibilities?

Last Answer :  Gathering the requirements from Client  Preparing the Design Document  Presenting the Design document to Client for approval  Configuring the service in Development environment  Testing and Troubleshooting of DP Services  Migrating the services from Dev to test and to production environment

Description : What is an on-error action in XI52?

Last Answer : An on-error action defines a named rule that enables user-defined error handling when subsequent processing encounters errors. This topic instructs how to define an on-error action. The on-error action ... an error occurs during processing. In this case, the error rule acts as an error handler.

Description : How do you migrate your services from one environment to another or how do you deploy your services from one environment to another?

Last Answer : We have a support team who takes care of Service deployments. We take an export of the service which needs to be deployed and keep it in a secured server by doing FTP. Our support ... server and does the deployment We can also use Export and Import configuration along with the Deployment Policy

Description : What is the advantage of Datapower over Message Broker?

Last Answer : Message Broker Datapower Integrating and leveraging the WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure. Similar to Message Broker, DataPower can do any-to-any transformation (in theory, Yes. But in practice, you ... from any-to-any. Offers z/OS clients platform-specific benefits (CICS, VSAM).

Description : Have you worked on Datapower Extension functions? If so, can you please name some of them

Last Answer : Yes. Whenever we need to use DP EXTN Functions, we always need to declare the below namespace. xmlns:dp=http://www.datapower.com/extensions extension-element-prefixes="dp" dp:set-variable: ... field does not exist, this extension function adds the specified name and value to the client request.

Description : How do you handle Error scenarios?

Last Answer : We create an error rule in which we use a generic XSLT, which creates a fault message by reading the Service variables env:Client

Description : What is a Passthrough Service?

Last Answer : assthrough is basically accepting and sending a request to the backend without modifying it in Datapower

Description : What are the Datapower Variables?

Last Answer : Local - var://local/userdefinedname A local context variable in the default (current) context. The local context does not persist beyond the scope of the transaction. A transaction can include both ... a variable that is made available to a DataPower service that is attached to a session.

Description : Difference between Copy and Copy-of?

Last Answer : The element creates a copy of the current node. Note: Namespace nodes of the current node are automatically copied as well, but child nodes and attributes of the current node are not ... : Namespace nodes, child nodes, and attributes of the current node are automatically copied as well!

Description : Difference between Apply-template and Call-template?

Last Answer : The element applies a template to the current element or to the current element's child nodes. If we add a select attribute to the element it will process only the child element that ... a normal function call. You execute exactly one (named) template, usually with one or more parameters.

Description : What is xsl:param ?

Last Answer : The element is used to declare a local or global parameter. The parameter is global if it's declared as a top-level element, and local if it's declared within a template.

Description : Have you worked on XSLT Coding? If so, rate yourself in the scale of 1-10

Last Answer : Yes. I would rate myself as 6-7

Description : . How do you Implement Dynamic Routing in Datapower?

Last Answer : In case of a dynamic backend, we update all the backend URL’s in an xml file and we use a generic XSLT which will read the URL from the xml file based on certain customized conditions and we set the routing variable var://service/routing-url in the XSLT.

Description : What kind of troubleshooting have you done in datapower?

Last Answer : We use probe to capture the ongoing transactions with respect to a service.  We can also set the log level to debug mode in Troubleshooting Panel.We can make use of Log targets and Log ... Appliance itself under logstore or logtemp directory  We can also save the logs in an external server.

Description : How do you test your Datapower Services?

Last Answer : We can use SOAPUI to test the Datapower Services

Description : 8. When can we use User Agent?

Last Answer : A user agent is a client that initiates a request for a local service to establish a connection to a remote server.

Description : 7. What is an XML Manager and why do we need it?

Last Answer : An XML Manager provides the following capabilities  Basic network configuration, such as load balancing and accessing remote servers.  It acts as an XML parser in order to provide XML Threat Protection  It helps in implementing Caching  To configure the User Agent

Description : 6. What are the Security features that you have enabled in Datapower?

Last Answer : SSL Proxy Profile or Transport Layer Security  Forward  Reverse  Two-way  When DataPower Acts as Server Create SSL proxy profile by following the steps shown below , it can be referred ... Header  We extract the Header and verify the same in the AAAinfo.xml file for Authentication purpose

Description : 5. What is SLM and options available with that?

Last Answer : SLM has mainly 3 statements  Throttle  Notify  Shape

Description : 4. What actions have you used in the processing policy?

Last Answer :  AAA  SLM  Match  Transform  Result  Sign  Verify  Encrypt  Decrypt

Description : 3. What are the components of a WSDL?

Last Answer :  WSDL Definitions  WSDL Types  WSDL Message  WSDP Port and Operation  WSDL Binding

Description : 2. Difference between WSP and MPGW?

Last Answer : WSP Web Service Proxy is a powerful service in DataPower which provides abstraction and security to the backend web services .It provide access to variety of web services. WSP has many important ... to manually configure a match action and Processing policy  We have a loopback mode in MPGW

Description : 1. What are the different services that have you used in Datapower?

Last Answer : WebService Proxy, Multiprotocol gateway and XML Firewall