Adding DataPower appliances to the DataPower appliance manager
You can use the DataPower® appliance manager that is provided with the product to administer a DataPower appliance. After you add an appliance to the DataPower appliance manager, you can make it part of a managed set of appliances if you want the DataPower appliance manager to keep the shared appliance settings for this appliance synchronized with the shared appliance settings of the other appliances that are part of that managed set.
Before you begin
- Verify that the appliance that you are adding is at a Version 3.6.0.4 or higher firmware level. The appliance manager cannot manage an appliances that is not at a Version 3.6.0.4 or higher firmware level.
- Verify that the appliance manager can communicate with the port that is used for the XML Management interface AMP endpoint on the appliance. The appliance manager uses this port to send commands to an appliance.
- Verify that the appliance can communicate with the port that is used for the DataPowerMgr_inbound_secure endpoint on the deployment manager. The appliance uses this port to send events to the appliance manager.
- Verify that the Appliance Management Protocol (AMP) endpoint is enabled for each appliance. If the XML Management interface AMP endpoint was disabled during installation, use the DataPower WebGUI to enable the AMP endpoint.
- Verify that there is not a firewall between the deployment manager and the appliances that will be part of a managed set. If there is a firewall between the deployment manager and the appliances, that firewall might prevent the appliance manager from communicating with the appliances in a managed set.
About this task
You can use the administrative console to add a new DataPower appliance or to access the DataPower WebGUI. If you want to access the DataPower WebGUI, in the administrative console, click
, and then click . Complete the following steps if you want to add a add a new DataPower appliance.
Procedure
- In the administrative console, click .
- Specify a unique name for the appliance in the An appliance name must be unique and cannot contain an invalid character. The name field cannot contain the characters # $ @ \ / , : ; " * ? < > | = + & % or '. field.
- Specify an IP address or fully qualified host name in the field.
- Specify the XML management interface port that the DataPower appliance uses in the field.
- Specify the ID that you want to use to connect to the DataPower appliance in the field.
- Specify the password that you want to associate with the user ID in the and fields.
- Click to add the new appliance.
Results
What to do next
You can change appliance settings, add the appliance to a managed set, or remove the appliance from the DataPower appliance manager.
