Determine whether you may implement a single registry or multiple registries.

Choosing a Deployment Strategy

Install each instance of CentraSite and configure its connection to the external authentication system.

Configuring User Authentication and Repositories

Identify the organization structure you will use for each registry, identify organization administrators, and create the organizations.

For details on organization management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Determine whether the default role assignments given to the Users group are appropriate for each organization and modify these assignments if necessary.

For details on user and role management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Identify the types of assets that you want to catalog in CentraSite. Define new types of assets and customize the predefined types. Create the required taxonomies and association types to support your customizations.

For details on asset management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Determine which asset types you want to place under lifecycle management and create the required lifecycle models.

For details on life cycle management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Determine which polices you want to place on the objects in your registry and create the required design/change-time policies to enforce these policies.

For details on design/change-time policies, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Create the Consumer Registration policy on each instance of CentraSite.

For details on policy and consumer management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Define a gateway of type Mediator and a user account for each webMethods Mediator that is attached to an instance of CentraSite.

For details on gateway management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Create the lifecycle model and associated policies required to enable deployment of virtual services.

For details on life cycle management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.

Define the process your site uses for creating, deploying, and promoting virtual services and ensure that the participants in this process have the necessary permissions to perform their assigned tasks.

For details on policy management, see CentraSite User’s Guide.