IBM DataPower Gateway Agent
Monitor IBM DataPower Gateway with Nodinite DataPower Monitoring Agent for real-time visibility, instant alerts, and zero-touch remote remediation.
About
The IBM DataPower Gateway Monitoring Agent provides comprehensive monitoring of your DataPower appliances across all deployment models—physical, virtual, and cloud-based. Monitor critical infrastructure metrics in real-time, detect issues before they impact your integrations, and resolve problems instantly via secure remote actions—without requiring direct SSH access to appliances.
Key capabilities:
- SNMP trap monitoring - Real-time alerts for critical events (certificate expiration, failed logins, service crashes)
- SOMA API polling - Periodic metrics collection for CPU, memory, disk, and service health trending
- Multi-appliance dashboards - Monitor unlimited DataPower appliances from a single Nodinite instance
- Remote actions - Execute troubleshooting commands (list notifications, view service logs, check certificate details) without SSH
- Trend analysis - Detect memory leaks, identify capacity planning needs, analyze performance degradation over time
- Compliance auditing - Full audit trail of all monitoring access and remote actions for SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA requirements
Monitor Capabilities
List of resources that can be monitored by using this agent:
Disk - Fixed or percent thresholds with warning and error threshold
- Encrypted space
- Temporary space
- Internal space
CPU
- Load Warning Threshold %
- Load Error Threshold %
Memory with warning and error based on your thresholds
- Fixed
- Percent
Services
- Stopped services
- Support for specific settings if a service should be stopped
Notification Rules - Customizable SNMP trap monitoring for
- Certificate expiration (90/30/7 day warnings)
- Failed login attempts (brute-force detection)
- Configuration changes (compliance audit trail)
- Service state changes (up/down/stopped)
Actions
- Remote Actions (no SSH required)
- List Notifications - View recent SNMP traps and events
- View Service Logs - Troubleshoot crashes without WebGUI access
- Check Certificate Details - Plan certificate renewals
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I detect memory leaks in XSLT transformations? - Identify gradual memory growth before crashes
- What's the difference between SNMP traps and SOMA API polling? - Real-time events vs. periodic metrics
- Can I execute remote actions without SSH? - Secure troubleshooting via SOMA API
- How do I detect certificate expiration issues? - Advance warning and compliance tracking
- What DataPower versions are supported? - Firmware compatibility across physical/virtual/cloud deployments
- How do I monitor DMZ-to-Production communication? - Cross-environment monitoring with firewall rules
- How do I prevent "disk full" outages? - Proactive disk space monitoring and log rotation
- How do I correlate memory/CPU spikes with service restarts? - Root cause analysis for service crashes
Pricing
This agent and all other Monitoring Agents are part of the license for Nodinite. No additional costs exist for the use of the Monitoring Agent for Nodinite licensees.
Release Log
For detailed information about the features and bug fixes, please see the Release Notes
Next Step
Configuration of the agent
Install DataPower Monitoring Agent
Prerequisites for DataPower Monitoring Agent