Reconfiguring Virtual Services

You might want to reconfigure the details of a virtual service to modify some of its policy parameters. When reconfiguring the virtual service, CentraSite checks for any recent changes in the WSDL associated with its native service. If there is any change in the WSDL of native service, the change is updated in the WSDL of virtual service.

Note: You cannot reconfigure virtual services if the CentraSite run-time aspects are not enabled.

You can reconfigure the details of a in one of the following ways:

Through the virtual service details page. You will be allowed to directly reconfigure the displayed virtual service.

Through the native service details page. You will be redirected to select the virtual service and reconfigure the selected virtual service.

To reconfigure the details of a virtual service, you must have the following roles or permissions:

CentraSite Administrator

Organization Administrator

Asset Provider

Instance-level Modify permission on the Native Service or virtual service

In addition to the above described roles and permissions for modifying the details of a virtual service, make sure that you have the specific roles and permissions required for reconfiguring the run-time actions and republishing the virtual services to API Gateway, API Portal, Mediator, and Insight Server gateways.

Note: CentraSite does not support reconfiguring the details of a Virtual OData Service asset through the Virtual OData Service Details page.

To reconfigure a virtual service asset

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: Virtual Service, Virtual REST Service.

c. Click OK.

5. Click the virtual service you want to reconfigure.

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

6. On the actions bar of the virtual service details page, click Virtualize.

This opens the Virtualize <Service_Name> (Step 1 of 3) wizard.

7. To modify the run-time policy actions that are configured for the virtual service, click Next.

8. In the Virtualize <Service_Name> (Step 2 of 3) wizard, drag and drop the policy actions, and reconfigure the policy action parameters, as required.

9. Click Virtualize to save the updated changes.