API Connect

Hi All,

Please resolve the following queries in API Connect:

1. How can I configure the log target for a specific API that is already present in API Connect, and also filter logs based on a specific customer IP address?

2. How can I create a cache policy for storing and reusing tokens in API Connect?

Thanks in advance for your valuable information.

Hi Kandula,
1. There is not a filter for a specific API, although there is a mechanism to have the logging target filter by IP.  See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/10.6.0?topic=targets-adding-ip-address-filters-log-target.
2. In DataPower v10.6.0.x I would suggest the use of distributed variables.  See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/10.6.0?topic=administration-distributed-variables

Best Regards,
Steve Linn

Hi All,

Please resolve the following queries in API Connect:

1. How can I configure the log target for a specific API that is already present in API Connect, and also filter logs based on a specific customer IP address?

2. How can I create a cache policy for storing and reusing tokens in API Connect?

Thanks in advance for your valuable information.

If your API is already sending data to APIC Analytics (the default), then you can filter in the analytics ingestion config to do different things for different APIs or even different client IPs.
Some examples in the docs for doing conditional offload - examples of how to create if statements in ingestion config can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.8?topic=filters-example-ingestion

Just to add a note to what Steve said - DP 10.6.0.x can only be used with APIC 10.0.8. Please make sure you refer to the docs for the APIC and DP versions you are actually using.

Hi Kandula,
1. There is not a filter for a specific API, although there is a mechanism to have the logging target filter by IP.  See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/10.6.0?topic=targets-adding-ip-address-filters-log-target.
2. In DataPower v10.6.0.x I would suggest the use of distributed variables.  See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/10.6.0?topic=administration-distributed-variables

Best Regards,
Steve Linn

Hi All,

Please resolve the following queries in API Connect:

1. How can I configure the log target for a specific API that is already present in API Connect, and also filter logs based on a specific customer IP address?

2. How can I create a cache policy for storing and reusing tokens in API Connect?

Thanks in advance for your valuable information.