Features & Tutorials

Kumba Software LLC imposes no limits on the number of appliances for which you are licensed.  Our license agreement is simple and straightforward.  One seat, one license!

One prerequisite and one-time setup.  Nothing could be easier than setting up DPAA®.  All you need is Open JDK or Oracle Java JRE version 19 or better, and you're ready to go!   Use the Contact Us page to get your license and watch the Getting Started video, and that's all you need to do.

Set up your appliances quickly and easily. Arrange your appliances into categories for geographic, environmental, organizational or any other purpose to simplify selection.  Share appliance configurations securely with others to prevent duplication of effort, or to be able to switch between clients or any other purpose.

Once you have your appliance settings defined, DPAA® allows you to securely export and import appliance settings, so you can easily back up, restore or share the appliance settings with others within your organization.  This feature is also useful to share a limited number of appliance settings with, say, a contractor who may not be allowed access to production.

If you decommission or migrate to new appliances, you can quite easily remove them from DPAA®'s configuration.

Easily understand appliance and appliance category status with real-time display of categorical relationships, appliance connected state, and when appliances are quiesced.   Clearly tell the difference between appliance categories and appliances.  Know the difference icons that show for domains, such as quiesce state, when the domains need to be saved, when trace or diagnostics are enabled, when the logs are set at debug, and when probes are turned on for one or more services within a domain.

Quickly locate objects, manage their properties, and use the power of DPAA® to use the hundreds of features offered.

DPAA® lets you find objects wherever they be hiding.  You can search by name or use a regular expression.  Even more powerful is the ability to locate objects based upon their property values!

Whether quiescing services, domains, or protocol handlers or toggling the administrative state of objects, DPAA® gives you control without hassle.

Configurations can be copied and moved from any number of source objects from any set of appliances and domains to any number of appliances and domains.

Though DataPower will show you object references going down the hierarchy, DPAA® not only allows you to see references in both directions, but shows the references is a much more understandable way and can show them for any number of objects at the same time.   Not only that, DPAA® will drill all the way down to the file level so you can easily see which files are being referenced by the various objects within the hierarchy.

DPAA® helps you see, edit and control all the properties of object configurations.  Synchronize editing across multiple objects across many appliances and domains.  One change changes them all!

There are a number of ways to revert running configurations in DPAA®.  The easiest are the many places where you have the ability to undo configurations.  You can find them in the main popup menu of the object search screen, but also in many popups of status providers.

DPAA® is designed with productivity, ease of use, and always the ability to perform tasks against multiple objects across any number of appliances and domains.   These features include simple and complex property management, editing and synchronization.   Synchronize your load balancer group members.  Set up your probe triggers for all your service objects at the same time.    Manage ciphers for SSL Server and Client profiles, and much, much more.

Do you like that object configuration and need another one almost just like it?   DPAA® allows you to save objects of any kind under a new name, effectively cloning them on the spot.  And, of course, it can do it for any number of objects across any number of appliances and domains.

There are times when you want to test a different DataPower configuration or need help migrating to a new configuration.  DPAA®'s refactoring replace feature helps you do just that.  In just a few clicks, you can replace one object in a configuration with another.

Sometimes a little magic comes your way.   DPAA® is the only tool on the planet allowing you to perform a refactoring rename of objects with just a few clicks of a mouse and a little typing.  Once the object is renamed, DPAA® reconfigures all objects referencing the object to ensure the references and object hierarchy remain properly intact.

IBM has long deprecated the DataPower SSL/TLS Proxy Profile.  Manually migrating to new TLS Client or Server Profiles is not an easy task.  Then comes the cleanup, which involves removing the now unused SSL/TLS Proxy Profile and Crypto Profiles.  The good news is DPAA® helps you with the whole process, smartly building out the new profile object types, automating the migration from the proxy profiles, and then even helps with clean up.

The DataPower Administrator's Assistant puts a unique twist on DataPower configuration imports by allowing you to import multiple files in one go, all the while controlling the order the files are imported.  For each import file, whether it is XML, XCFG or ZIP, you can apply deployment policies with associated deployment policy variables, options to control whether you want to overwrite file and overwrite objects, dry run, and to automatically save configurations once done.

When exporting configurations from DataPower using DPAA®, you'll no longer have to worry about overwriting other exported objects, even when acting upon the same object from multiple appliances and domains.

There is no other feature like DPAA®'s SnapShot.  Snapshot allows you to put every single individual object, file and certificate under version control.   Then, after you have taken a few snapshots, you can compare any two snapshots from any two historical dates to quickly identify exactly which objects, files and certificates have changed.

With DPAA®, you can update certificates and keys referenced by a crypto identification credential from ob-board or external sources.  For on-board files, just select the files for each certificate and key, apply any needed passwords, and you're set.  For external sources, locate the files, indicate where you want them uploaded, what the file names should be when uploaded to the appliance, set any needed passwords, and you'll be done sooner than you can say "Update my Crypto Identification Creden

Configuration objects can be deleted in a snap with DPAA®.  In addition to your normal object delete, DPAA® gives you the power of cascading deletes, meaning when you delete an object, you can delete all the objects referenced by that object!  Not only that, DPAA® takes cascading delete all the way down to the file level, helping you keep your DataPower environment clean and fresh without all the trash typically left behind.

DPAA® allows you to locate certificates wherever they happen to be.  Just select where you want to search, or search everything, DPAA® doesn't care.  Enter a regular expression to find certificates by Subject DN, SAN or Issuer.  You can also quickly list certificates coming up for expiration

DPAA® automates certificate creation from files located on your local file system.  You'll never be able to do it faster in any other way.  Just select the files you want, customize any names as needed, and you're done!  That is simple!

DPAA® helps you build up your certificates faster than ever by simply typing in a few host names, and you're ready to go.  Create the certificates in any file store, or mix and match as needed.

Compare certificates within and across appliances and domains.  You can also compare certificates within the appliances with certificates in files within your local file system or with certificates hosted at URLs.

Extract one, two, or a hundred certificates out of your appliances and domains with just a few clicks.   DPAA® makes it so easy, you'll never do it any other way.  

DPAA® makes changing passwords in DataPower a breeze!  What do you do when you need to change passwords en-masse?  Like many, you navigate the web interface looking for passwords or further navigating into Password Alias configurations and then typing in the passwords multiple times!  Not with DPAA®!  Just select the objects, popup the dialog and change the passwords.  It's that simple!  

When you keep your certificates and keys as separate files within your appliances, DPAA® makes updating them simple and straightforward.  You can update certificates from files located on your local file system, and even update them from certificates hosted on remove servers!

In just a few clicks, DPAA® gives you the power to create validation credentials from any arbitrary list of certificates, and you can do it all at one time on as many appliances and domains as needed! DPAA® puts the "power" in DataPower.

When managing certificates, it is nice to be able to clean out old and expired certificates and their related password maps and files.  DPAA® gives you that ability in a few quick clicks, all the while helping you to protect the things you want to keep.

There are so many features DPAA® offers with certificate management, you'll never need to turn to anything else.  You can find what references certificate objects.    Easily disable and enable certificate objects.  Delete certificates directly from the search screen or within the object management screen.

Since plain-text passwords are deprecated in DataPower, DPAA® gives you a very easy way to migrate those old passwords to password aliases. Whether you have existing password aliases you want to assign to those objects, or, even if you need to create new aliases, you won't believe how easy DPAA® makes it.  During the process, you even have the choice to remove the old plain-text password.

Using simple or complex regular expressions, find IPs anywhere.  DPAA even resolves IPs of Load Balancer Group members for you.

It is very simple to add new primary IP addresses to your Ethernet, Link Aggregation or VLAN interfaces.  Just click, type in an IP, and you're pretty much done!

It is very simple to add new secondary IP addresses to your Ethernet, Link Aggregation or VLAN interfaces.  Just click, type in an IP, and you're pretty much done!

DPAA® offers robust IP management features, including the ability to copy and move IP addresses across appliances.  Want to move some IP addresses from an Ethernet interface to a VLAN or Link Aggregation interface?  No problem!

There is no more powerful DataPower tool for quickly and effectively conducting ping and TCP connection tests than what DPAA® provides.  Test arbitrary lists of IPs and ports and entire network ranges in one go.   Test all the members of load balancer groups with just a click of the mouse! 

DPAA® removes the laborious process of creating host aliases by allowing you to create them when adding new IPs, or by mass-creating them for IPs already on your Ethernet, Link Aggregation or VLAN interfaces.

DPAA® provides multiple ways of creating, editing and removing DNS Static Hosts from your DNS Settings.  In some cases, it is just a matter of clicking the mouse.

Removing IPs within DataPower comes with risk, especially when working with secondary IPs.   DPAA® allows you to remove IPs with confidence and assurance.

Keeping users synchronized and managed across multiple appliances is so much easier with DPAA®.  From adding, finding and deleting accounts, to password management, to disconnecting user sessions, everything is simple.

User groups are easily managed across multiple appliances with DPAA®.  From one simple screen, you can add, delete and edit group settings.

Easily view and actively monitor status providers aggregated across appliances and domains in seconds.  DPAA® supports every status provider within DataPower, even some no longer available to you via the Web interface.  Setup continuous monitoring.

DPAA® provides a robust and dynamic graphing capability for eligible status providers.  Create multiple graphs per provider.  Change graph style on the fly.  Graph one or more properties at a time, and aggregate the view across multiple appliances and domains at once.

DPAA® gives you the ability to slice and dice status output with extremely advanced filtering.  Build your filter expression using a convenient dialog using regular expressions.  Save your favorite filtering expressions and recall them on a later date when needed.

DPAA® empowers you to save status data for later comparison.   Compare data and graphs of your current status with any status captured on a previous date.

When viewing status information, in many cases, DPAA® enables you to pop up a menu of actions you can invoke right from the status output screen.  From clearing Kerberos tickets to document caches, there are many actions you can take.

Aggregate your log searches of file-based logging targets across any number of appliances and domains all at once.  Use regular expressions to find exactly what you want to see.   Apply quick-filters to slice and dice the view in an infinitely more powerful way than within the appliances.

View special logs, such as the audit, CLI, compile, diagnostic, usage, startup errors and transaction logs with full-featured searching.   Use regular expressions to find logging entries.    Take advantage of the exclusive DPAA® Follow Transactions and Follow Global Transactions features to treat all the logging entries for matching transactions as a single search unit.

When viewing logs, change the logging level on the fly with DPAA®.  Synchronize editing of log target settings, event and IP filters and event triggers with ease.

Get started quickly with this introduction to file management with DPAA®.  Learn the basics of navigating around file systems, locating viewing files, and get a quick overview of the wide variety of things you can do.

Finding files within your DataPower appliances cannot be made easier than with DPAA®.   You can locate files by name, and even find files based upon their content.  Once located, you can perform a wide variety of actions on them.

Do you really know what a change to a file might affect?  Now you can!  DPAA® lets you clearly see what references a file!

DPAA® offers the full suite of file management features you should expect.  Export, create, edit and delete files with just a few clicks.

Upload and replace files from local or remote sources.   You can even drag and drop entire directory structures in one go!

DPAA® gives you extraordinary power and productivity allowing you to copy and move any number of files from any set of source appliances and domains to any set of destination appliances, domains and directories, all with a few clicks of a mouse.  

DPAA® also gives you the ability to perform a refactoring rename of files, a feature you can't accomplish as effectively, quickly and with the same degree of certainty using any other method, much less any other tool.

Clearing out DataPower temporary space can take time, especially when it needs to be done to many appliances at once.  DPAA® simplifies this with two mouse clicks!

In addition to DPAA®'s robust file management features, you have a full-featured directory management tool right at your fingertips.

Create new directories, delete entire directory trees, and even copy and move directories from any set of source appliances and domains to any set of target appliances and domains. 

DPAA® makes clearing caches as easy as 1-2-3.  Clear multiple system caches across appliances at the same time.  Clear as many document and stylesheet caches within as many XML Managers or API Gateways across as many domains and appliances as you wish with just a few clicks.  Empty AAA, PDP and NSS caches with ease.

Manage Domains with ease.  Create, delete, reset, restart, quiesce, un-quiesce, backup, and restore domains.  You can also set checkpoint history and create and restore checkpoints with just a few clicks across any number of appliances and domains at once.

Run CLI commands across multiple appliances all at the same time.  Save typing with DPAA® automation of switching domains for you just by selecting a different domain within the domains list.  Save, recall and run CLI scripts, all within DPAA®. 

It is easy to forget to add your count and duration monitors to your services.  If you're not the developer, and the developers aren't in the habit of building them, DPAA® comes to the rescue with the ability to create simple count and duration monitors on the fly on any number of services all at once.  

From toggling probes on and off to setting probe transaction history to synchronizing probe triggers and settings, DPAA® has your back.   You've never been able to manage probes more easily.

The aggregated probe view is exclusive to DPAA®.   View probe transactions across appliances, domains and services in one easy-to-use interface.  View transaction details without ever having to worry about the transaction rolling off the view.  Analyze profiling performance with the hover of a mouse, and view the output context of all of your actions! 

Setup packet capturing across as many appliances as needed in just a few seconds.  Whether timed or continuous, all the features you expect are included.  When done, save all of your captures off of the appliances and clean out the capture files in one click!

Generate, download and view error reports right in DPAA®.   DPAA® takes the mystery out of the error reports allowing you to easily compare error reporting data across appliances and history, all with just a few clicks of the mouse!

Aggregate your troubleshooting across as many appliances and domains as needed to help keep your environment running tip-top.   Run a trace route right from the UI.  Turn on and off file capture across any number of appliances in two clicks.   Test your password maps using convenient drop downs.  Test your hardware with just a click of the mouse.  Speedily test your RADIUS settings.