CentraSite provides a complete API Management solution that ensures success with exposing APIs both within and outside your organization. It provides role focused user interfaces, complies with standards, and delivers on business value.
The types of tasks you can perform in CentraSite API Management depend on the following characteristics of your user account:
The roles that are associated with your account
The actions on APIs on which you have access to
The user account to which you belong is either an API provider or an API consumer.
API Providers (Owners of the API) who belong to a role "Runtime API Provider" are allowed to create and manage (view, edit, delete) their organization’s APIs. Additionally, they can virtualize and publish APIs to the run-time layer.
API Consumers (Consumers of the API) who belong to a role "Asset Consumer" can only "see" the set of APIs that providers have given them permission to view. Additionally, they can invoke (call) the APIs exposed to them.
The following steps outline how to get started with CentraSite for API Management, as soon as a specific API is identified that needs to be exposed in your applications.
Create an API (asset) in the CentraSite Business UI. For procedures, see Creating an API.
Browse or Search for the API. For procedures, see Browsing and Searching for APIs.
View information stored for the API. For procedures, see Viewing Details for an API.
Specify the endpoints for the API. For procedures, see Editing Properties of an API.
Create a virtual copy of the API. For procedures, see Creating an API Proxy.
Configure the consumption settings for the API. For procedures, see Configuring an API for Consumption.
Publish the API to Mediator for consumption. For procedures, see Publishing an API Proxy.
Request an API by registering as consumer for the API. For procedures, see Register as Consumers for an API.
Review and approve the consumer registration requests for the API. For procedures, see Approving Onboarding Registration Requests.
Review and approve the API key requests for consumption of the API. For procedures, see Approving API Key Requests.
Fetch and use your API key or OAuth token for consumption of the API. For procedures, see Obtaining Your API Keys and Access Tokens for Consumptio.
Currently, CentraSite supports the API Management concept for the three basic types of services (Service, REST Service, and XML Service) that can be virtualized and published in general. Instructions throughout the remainder of this guide use the term "API" when referring to all three types in general.
