API Portal 10.7 | webMethods API Portal for Administrators | Configuring API Portal | Configuring API Portal with External Databases | Configuring API Portal with a Postgres Database
 
Configuring API Portal with a Postgres Database
 
Backing up API Portal Database
Starting Zookeeper Service
Creating Postgres Database and User
Registering the External Service Database
Starting all Runnables
Restoring the backed up data
To configure an external Postgres database for API Portal, you need the following components:
*API Portal instance
*An operating Postgres database
Note:
For API Portal 10.7, Postgres as external database is supported only in single node deployment; and does not support the high availability setup.
*To configure API Portal with an external Postgres Database
1. Back up of the API Portal database.
2. Start the Zookeeper service.
3. Create Postgres database and user.
4. Register the external services database.
5. Start all runnables.
6. Restore the backed up data.