API-Portal can depend on CentraSite or other third-party providers for Key management. Depending on the deployment model the configuration parameter Is CentraSite based API Management Profile active? has to be configured accordingly.

The default value of the Is CentraSite based API Management Profile active? parameter is true, which means that API-Portal relies on CentraSite for key management. This value has to be changed to false for key management to be handled by the third-party vendor. When this parameter is set to false, API-Portal sends key requests to a group of people for access token management. The API Administrator can assign the users to the UMC group API Consumption Approvers and emails will be sent out to all the users in this group for access token requests.

You can modify the property Is CentraSite based API Management Profile active? through the configuration page on the API-Portal user interface.