Unpublishing Service Assets from API Portal Gateway

When you execute an Unpublish action through the Native Service Details page, the exact rendering of user interface depends on whether or not the native service has an immediate virtual service.

If the native service does not have an immediate virtual service, you are allowed to directly unpublish the native service from an API Portal gateway.

If the native service has an immediate virtual service, you are directed to select one or more virtual services (in addition to the native service), and then unpublish the selected services from API Portal gateway.

To unpublish a Service asset from API Portal gateway

1. In CentraSite Business UI, access the Advanced Search panel in one of the following ways:

Click the Browse link in the upper-left corner of the menu bar.

Click the Search icon next to the Scope list. The default search scope is Assets.

This displays a list of assets in the Search Results page.

2. In the Additional Search Criteria list, select Asset Types.

3. To search for the assets of type, service, click Choose.

4. In the Choose Asset Types dialog box, select the Assets button, and follow these steps:

a. Click the chevron next to Assets button.

b. In the list of asset types, select any of the following types: Service, REST Service, OData Service.

c. Click OK.

5. Click the service you want to unpublish from the gateways.

This opens the Service Details page. Also, the actions bar displays a set of actions that are available for working with the displayed service.

6. On the actions bar of the Service Details page, click Unpublish.

CentraSite directs you to an intermediate Unpublish Virtual Services dialog box, if the displayed service has a virtual service. A list of the defined virtual services that are available for unpublishing from the gateways is displayed.

CentraSite directs you to the Unpublish from Gateway dialog box, if the displayed service does not have an immediate virtual service.

7. In the Unpublish Virtual Services dialog box, select one or multiple virtual services you want to unpublish from the gateways, and click Next.

This opens the Unpublish from Gateway dialog box.

8. In the Gateway list, select one or more API Portal gateways from that you want to unpublish the virtual services.

The Gateway list only displays the gateways for which you have the Modify permission.

9. (Optional). I In the Sandbox list, do the following:

a. Click the Configure icon next to the field labeled Sandbox.

This opens the API Portal Settings dialog box.

b. Select one or multiple sandbox categories that classify the endpoint of the services for unpublishing from API Portal gateways.

The Sandbox list includes:

If you choose...	CentraSite displays...
Development	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Development category.
Production	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Production category.
Test	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Test category.
All Sandboxes	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by any of the above mentioned categories.

The default is set to All Sandboxes.

c. Click OK.

10. Click Unpublish.

The Unpublish Inprogress popup displays the progress state of unpublishing the service from the selected API Portal gateways.

If the unpublish process logs failures, identify, and correct the failure, and try unpublishing the service again.