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Solutions that make SOA Production-ready
Organizations looking to take SOA systems into production face a number of challenges. Due to the distributed, heterogeneous nature of these evolutionary systems, services-based applications raise unprecedented governance issues — requirements that must be met in order to make enterprise-class use of SOA:
- Ensuring operational health
- Insight into business transactions
- Managing across multiple machines
- Addressing heightened security concerns
- Enabling online upgrades and versioning
- Detecting and handling exceptional conditions
- Setting and maintaining appropriate service levels
- Validate updated services before re-deploying them into production
POLICY-BASED MANAGEMENT
A key enabler of adaptive SOA-based systems is the use of “policies,” the declarative specification of characteristics of the system. To enable a truly adaptive enterprise, policies must be implemented dynamically by the runtime environment. At AmberPoint, we have introduced a groundbreaking policy-based management system that helps organizations to achieve better, more adaptive end-to-end control of evolving services-based applications.
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LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
AmberPoint brings policy-based runtime governance to SOA systems, transforming them into trustworthy, enterprise-class business assets.
- Service network discovery and lifecycle management
- Advanced policy definition and management
- Runtime versioning management
- Service brokering and virtualization
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SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT
AmberPoint provides predictability, visibility and control for Web services in production environments.
- Measure against and enforce QoS objectives defined over extended periods
- Allocate Web services resources according to business needs
- Anticipate and prevent service failures to reduce business risks
- Identify trends over the long term and plan for growth
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EXCEPTION MANAGEMENT
AmberPoint monitors business activity to detect, diagnose and resolve operational errors and unplanned business events.
- Customizable, end-to-end logging
- Sophisticated root-cause analysis
- Proactive detection of exceptions
- Targeted alerting
- Multi-mode response to exceptions
- Impact analysis and reporting
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SOA VALIDATION
AmberPoint enables QA and operations teams to validate the functionality and performance of services by replaying real-world service interactions.
- Validates services against the complete set of dependent applications
- Uses messages captured across diverse environments to create realistic “dry runs” in the staging environment
- Provides validation rules to account for differences inherent in the validation environment, such as time stamps
- Provides realistic load-testing and capacity-planning scenarios that mimic actual distribution
- Verifies performance goals and new policies
- Simulates production services outside the immediate control of the project or the department
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ADVANCED SECURITY CAPABILITIES
AmberPoint products help to provide a secure environment for distributed, service-oriented applications. They integrate with existing security infrastructure to address requirements for authentication, authorization, integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation.
- Content-based security policies for XML-Signatures, XML-Encryption and authorization
- Bi-directional, distributed enforcement with centralized control
- Comprehensive solution compliant with WS-Security standards
- Provision existing security infrastructure as needed including platforms, ID management vendors and XML appliances
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AMBERPOINT EXPRESS
AmberPoint Express is no-cost, developer's edition of AmberPoint. It enables Web service developers to incrementally measure, debug and fine-tune the performance and functionality of their Web services:
- View Web service performance in real time with easy-to-digest charts for response time, throughput and SOAP fault counts
- Gain a quick understanding of performance bottlenecks and errors from drilling down into message history or live traffic
- Comprehensive testing and diagnostic capabilities for fine-tuning Web services, including auto-generation of SOAP messages based on the Web service WSDL
- Integrated with Visual Studio .NET for point-and-click management
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SYNCHRONIZATION WITH REGISTRIES
AmberPoint automatically discovers the services recorded in a standard registry as well as the policies associated with those services. It then automatically assigns and enforces those policies accordingly, thus ensuring that the policies described in the registry are enforced as intended.
- Bidirectional service communication: Automatically discovers services recorded in the registry as well as adding to the registry any new, previously unlisted services discovered in the running environment
- Bidirectional endpoint communication: Automatically updates the registry with changes to service endpoints made in the running environment—such as the creation of proxies, virtual services, and other intermediaries
- Bidirectional policy communication: Retrieves policies referenced in registries and enforces them at runtime, as well as posting new policies and policy changes to registries
- Documents discrepancies between design and development intentions and runtime realities
- Supports connection to multiple registries at the same time
- Bridges the gap between design time and runtime governance
INTEGRATES WITH THE ENTERPRISE
AmberPoint integrates seamlessly into any IT environment, leveraging the existing infrastructure by integrating with leading systems management solutions (such as IBM Tivoli and Microsoft Operations Manager) and security solutions (such as Netegrity or SunOne Identity Server). AmberPoint's standards-based software solutions communicate bi-directionally with any infrastructure software equipped with a Web services interface.
- Extends NSM solutions to Web services systems
- Flexible, bi-directional communication
- Shares active management with leading NSM solutions
- Event-based or log-based
- Customizable for custom event or log formats
STREAMLINED USER EXPERIENCE
AmberPoint simplies the management and monitoring of even the most complex services-based systems. The AmberPoint UI provides powerful, context-sensitive navigation across management disciplines—service level management, exception management and lifecycle management. For example, while diagnosing a service level fault, a user can drill down to determine if it is the result of an underlying security violation. All common policies and management tasks are accessible through a web-based UI, eliminating the need for a fat client.
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