Other Users and Roles in API-Portal

API provider. Users in this group are allowed to publish APIs to API-Portal. These users are registered in CentraSite and APIs are published to API-Portal.

API consumer. Users in this group are allowed to browse the portal (anonymously or as a registered user), register as an API-Portal user, request API access tokens, and test (evaluate) available APIs. API consumers can leave a community.

After receiving an onboard approval email with an access token, registered developers can build their own applications, including the token in the application.

Community administrator. A community administrator is an administrator who can create, update, and delete a private community. Users in this group can add, update or remove users from a private community. A community administrator can define community administrators and revoke the community administrator role from a user.

In addition to these roles, technical users exist to facilitate communication between systems and applications to ensure that credentials stay the same. A technical user is not associated with a specific user. Rather, a technical user represents a set of credentials and authorizations that is authenticated against an internal list of users, and not with an external set of authentications (for example, Active Directory or LDAP). API-Portal administrators create technical users in API-Portal, and CentraSite administrators specify the technical user credentials when they register an API-Portal instance in CentraSite.

Note:

As a best practice, Software AG recommends using a technical user in CentraSite and API-Portal to publish APIs from CentraSite to API-Portal.