Other Users in CentraSite
The CentraSite user account to which you belong is either an API provider or an API consumer:
API providers (owners of the API) who belong to the API Runtime Provider role in
CentraSite are allowed to create and manage (view, edit, delete) all APIs within their organization. Additionally, these users can virtualize and publish APIs to the run-time layer.
API consumers (users of the API) who belong to the Asset Consumer role in
CentraSite can only work with the set of APIs that API providers have given them permission to view. Additionally, API consumers can invoke (call) the APIs exposed to them.
If your API management lifecycle includes approval workflows, some CentraSite users can be designated as an approver. Approvers whose user account includes a valid email address can receive an email message informing them that a request is awaiting their approval. Approvers can be in a designated approver group, and manage various aspects of the approval lifecycle, including review and approval or rejection of API access token requests.
In addition to these users, 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).
