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Service Manager for SOA

Centrally Manage all Layer 7 Gateways and Associated Services across the Global Enterprise and the Cloud

Simplify API, Service & Gateway Management Across Data Centers & Cloud

The Layer 7 Enterprise Service Manager (ESM) is designed to give SecureSpan Gateway, API Manegement and Cloud Integration administrators and operations managers centralized visibility into the health of their Layer 7 Gateway landscape along with the services and APIs they proxy. Using the Service Manager for SOA, API and Cloud, administrators can more easily govern application services, service artifacts and the associated policies from development, to test, to production even across geographically distributed datacenters and the cloud.

ESM provides configurable dashboarding and reporting for a host of operation-level and services-level KPIs, delivering at-a-glance insight into the usage and quality of  SOA, API and Cloud services. ESM also provides health visibility across physical, virtual and cloud based Layer 7 Gateways. This means that administrators and operations managers can for the first time govern the enforcement and migration of SOA, API and cloud services, such as security and SLAs across the distributed enterprise. With ESM, administrators can promote and migrate services across development, test, global production sites, disaster recovery mirrors and even multiple cloud providers without runtime policy conflicts associated with network and identity discrepancies. ESM is available as a low cost add-on option to any deployment of SecureSpan, CloudSpan and API gateways or proxies.

Example Capabilities Include:

  • Gateway performance metrics and health status
  • Global visibility across distributed SOA, API and cloud services
  • Activity reporting based on service, operation, user or custom parameter
  • Policy migration across dev, test, production and disaster recovery
  • Service versioning
  • Cluster management

 

Enterprise Service Manager - Layer 7 Technologies

 

Gateway Management across the Enterprise and Cloud — ESM provides Layer 7 customers with a fully integrated, centralized, operations console from which administrators can gain a single view of the health and performance of all their Layer 7 Gateways and associated Web services, dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing enterprise-scale deployments.

Dramatically Reduced Service Migration Risk
— implementing/updating services across the extended enterprise is complicated by differences in network and identity topology in each environment. With ESM, administrators can literally point and click to move service policies across development, test and production environments; among geographical locations and between the enterprise and the cloud, automatically resolving network and identity conflicts.

Global Services Visibility
— gain a configurable, API-extensible, centralized dashboard for reporting on service performance and KPI achievement.

Chassis 1RU standard rack mount: 1.71 x 16.75 x 27.0 in. (43.43 x 425.5 x 658.8 mm)
Processor Dual Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (quad core = 8 logical cores)
Hardware Acceleration Offload SSL and XML processing operations to optional acceleration card
Cryptography Optional onboard HSM, as well as support for external HSMs (i.e., SafeNet)
FIPS  140-2 support in both hardware (Level 3) and software (Level 1)
Ports 4 x Gigabit Network Cards
Memory 8GB RAM (maximum memory of 72GB)
Storage Mirrored, hot-swappable drives
Power Dual redundant, hot-swappable; 760 watts (W)
Performance Able to handle more than 10,000 requests/sec
  • XML
  • SOAP
  • AJAX
  • XPath
  • XSLT
  • WSDL
  • XML Schema
  • LDAP
  • SAML
  • PKCS
  • X.509 Certificates
  • FIPS 140
  • Kerberos
  • W3C XML Signature
  • W3C XML Encryption
  • SSL/TLS
  • SNMP
  • SMTP
  • POP3
  • IMAP4
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • IPv6
  • WCF
  • JMS
  • MQ Series
  • REST
  • Tibco EMS
  • FTP
  • WS-Security
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-Federation
  • WS-Addressing
  • WSSecureConversation
  • WS-MetadataExchange
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
  • WS-PolicyAttachment
  • WS-SecureExchange
  • WSIL
  • WS-I
  • WS-I BSP
  • UDDI
  • WSRR
  • XACML
  • MTOM

 

Gateway Management
Operations Console
  • Single, real time view of all Gateways across the enterprise and cloud showing audits, events and key metrics (disk usage, CPU temperature, clock drift, audit and log file size, as well as throughput, routing failures, utilization and availability rates)
Reporting & Analysis
  • Configurable, out-of-the-box reports provide insight into Gateway operations, service-level performance, and user experience
Customer Mapping
  • Report on service performance, policy violations and SLA conformance based on specific customers, composites (i.e., processes and transactions using a service) or clients to build a profile of actual enterprise/cloud user experience
Troubleshooting
  • Gain insight into the health of the Gateway infrastructure and associated services, proactively monitoring for exceptions
Policy Governance
Policy Migration
  • Graphical tool for centrally moving policies and policy fragments between Gateways located in different environments (development, testing, staging, production, etc), settings (enterprise, cloud, etc) or geographies
Dependency Resolution
  • When migrating policies, ESM flags discrepancies between environments (such as Gateway licenses, RBAC differences, IT resources [i.e., LDAPs may be named differently]), allowing administrators to resolve the differences and save the mappings for subsequent use
Policy Organization
  • Create views of policies by business function (i.e., by business unit, by customer, etc) or Gateway infrastructure (i.e., by geography) to reflect the way your business works
Remote Management
API Access
  • Remote management APIs allow customers to hook their existing, third-party management tools into the Gateway.
Remote Troubleshooting
  • Remotely access logs and audit files on any Gateway/Gateway cluster in order to identify and trace issues.
Centralized Operational Control
  • Leverage policy migration capabilities to quickly “clone” multiple policies between geographically diverse or enterprise/cloud Gateways to support fail-over, follow-the-sun and disaster recovery scenarios