IIB Setup and Configuration Service

W3Partnership has implemented and installed IBM Integration Bus – IIB in many different client sites.

Objectives

• Impact Assessment: To identify potential technical issues in installing IIB and configuring it.
• Installation Planning: To provide a high level plan to identify responsibilities and dependencies.
• Outline if any of the additional WebSphere products/options will fulfil a need in your environment.

Approach

• Usage: A one day onsite analysis of the current application/connectivity requirements in order to assess the risks and impacts of client placements.
• Scope: The topics covered can be tailored to suit individual needs but by default will include the following:
  • Training needs o Project dependencies
  • Availability - identify the availability for IIB as a whole and for individual services
  • Co-existence - identify if previous versions of IIB are used and can co-exist with the most recent version.
  • Customisation - identify if there are user defined nodes within message flows.
  • Environment architecture - determine the number of environments and the configuration of IIB Brokers necessary to support each environment.
  • Interoperability - identify services that may need to change to use IIB; existing services may only need the endpoint changed.
  • Resilience - identify resilience requirements for IIB as a whole and for individual services.
  • Sizing - identify the message volume expected to be handled by WMB and individual services
  • Security features - identify security measures necessary for IIB and individual services (i.e. WS-Security)
  • Installation