enforcement and monitoring are key to governance

An Application Gateway is a critical component of any SOA and Cloud Governance framework. Leading SOA technology stack vendors such as Oracle and IBM include Application Gateways as key components of their SOA governance reference architectures. Vordel Application Gateway helps organizations regulate, monitor, and enforce policies. These policies govern who can access the services (identity), how the services should respond (performance) and how records are maintained (audit trail for compliance).

Policy Enforcement

Vordel Application Gateway is a policy enforcement point (PEP) for many different types of policies.

• The Gateway enforces policies relating to usage of service, with out-of-the-box integrations to all the leading identity and access management technologies such as Axiomatics, CA, Entrust, IBM, Novell, Oracle, and RSA.
• The Gateway enforces policies relating to performance and quality of service. The Gateway monitors and adjusts service performance and quality in real-time based on policies and service level agreements (SLA).
• The Gateway enforces policies relating to compliance and audit. The Gateway captures transaction data and creates the audit trails necessary to meet governance, audit, and compliance requirements.

Policy Management

Vordel offers capabilities to manage a policy through its lifecycle, from development to retirement, to enable governance best practice. Vordel Policy Director is a single point of control for policy versioning, exception management, deployment, promotion, and rollback orchestration.

Vordel Application Gateway offers extensive scripting support for JavaScript, Groovy, and Ant, enabling automation of policy administration tasks to meet data center change management policies. Scripted deployment helps to avoid manual errors and improve process integrity.

Visibility & Monitoring

Vordel Application Gateway makes it simple to monitor policy compliance, including usage details and performance metrics , without deploying additional monitoring and sniffer technologies. Vordel provides service visibility via real-time metrics and comprehensive, drill-down reports to allow organizations see who is using their services, how often they use them and what service levels they are experiencing. Vordel also provides data feeds into network, system, and log management products to enable centralized monitoring in network operation centers.

Enterprise Registry Repository Support

Registries and repositories provide relevant data governing decisions such as when a service should be implemented, modified or retired. In addition to Vordel's built-in policy storage, Vordel Application Gateway is integrated with leading registry and repository products, including HP Systinet GIF, Oracle Enterprise Repository & Service Registry , and Software AG Centrasite.