Yo!

This is a tutorial to show you how I setup the DataPower Configuration Manager to my environment. If you are reading this, you should know what the DCM is (DataPower Configuration Manager), however, if not, the DCM is a solution created by IBM based on Ant to help you automate some process, deployments, etc. The solution can be found in the IBM Git Hub Account here: https://github.com/ibm-datapower/datapower-configuration-manager

Why I needed DCM?

I needed to use DCM because I had only 2 DataPowers in my environment but we needed to increase it to 4 and create a web service, export, and import on 4 devices would require lot of work and time, so I started looking for a solution to automate this and found the DCM. It worked perfectly to my needs, and it´s free. : )

First of all, use this link to setup:

https://github.com/ibm-datapower/datapower-configuration-manager/wiki/Quick-Start

I will not put the details on how to make the initial setup here, because is pretty simple and the link above is well explained.

1. Now everything is setup, let´s start with setup a folder. I will use this one: /DataPower/Exports. I´m using Mac, by the way.
2. Let´s create a file with the following format: env.<domain_name>.properties
3. In my case, my domain is: humanresources, so the filename will be: env.humanresources.properties.
4. And the content will be: domain=humanresources

5. Now create a file for your device, in my case the device will be: device02, so the file needs to follow the format: device.<device>.properties, for my environment it will be: device.device02.properties
6. This is the content of the file:

7. So, now everything is setup, you just need to run the command and provide the Ant xml file, see example:

See that Dservice is name of the Web Service that will be created on DataPower. As a good practice, I used the format above. Of course, the Dimport.file is the extracted Web Service in the .zip format. In this example I´m deploying on device 02 (-Ddevice) and on humanresources domain (-Denvironment).

Let me know if you have any question.

Thanks!

Leandro Takeda