Creating MultiProtocal Gateway

Multiprotocal Gateway(MPG) is the versatile service.As the name itself suggests us that MultiProtocal Gateway will process the requests between various protocols.

Steps to process request:

1. Receives Request
2. Process request with processing policy
3. Forward to remote server or back end

This flow is same for the response too.

MPG will use front side handlers to manage client connections.Note that a single MPG can have multiple front side handlers.

The basic difference between Web service proxy(WSP) and MPG is WSP will not process REST requests and MPG will not use WSDL to determine the configuration

Steps to Create a Multiprotocal Gateway:

• Log in to the device
• Go to Services->Multiprotocal Gateway->New-Multiprotocal-Gateway
• Give name of the MPG under Multi-Protocol Gateway Name 
• Create an XML Manager by clicking + sign and fill all the required options
• Inside XML Manager create User Agent and fill all the required options
• Create the processing policy by clicking + after the Multi-Protocol Gateway Policy
• Create a request,response and error rules in the policy by selecting type in the rule 
•  Create a front side handler for your MPG with the required protocol
• Select Type of back end whether it static or dynamic.If it is static give the Back end url in the backend URL  option
• select SSL client crypto profile 
• sepcify Request and Response Type
• You can leave other options as a default

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This is just an overview to create  a MPG.
More details on specific options in this will be in another post