Version 9.6
 —  Virtualizing APIs Using the CentraSite Business UI  —

Unpublishing an API Proxy

The following procedure describes how to unpublish a proxy API from one or more targets in webMethods Mediator.

To unpublish a proxy API from the targets, the following prerequisites must be met:

You can unpublish a single proxy API or a selected set of proxy APIs. The descriptions in this section give you details on how to do this.

Unpublishing a Single API Proxy

You use this procedure to unpublish a single proxy API using it's Unpublish action.

Start of instruction setTo unpublish a proxy API

  1. In CentraSite Business UI, display the details page of the proxy API you want to unpublish. For procedures, see the section Viewing the Details of an API.

  2. On the API details page, click Unpublish. This opens the Unpublish API dialog.

  3. From the Available Targets list, choose one or more targets from which you want to unpublish the proxy API.

    Or:
    If you want to unpublish the proxy API from all the targets, select the All Targets checkbox.

    When attempting to unpublish the proxy API, without selecting at least on target, a warning popup box appears

  4. Click Unpublish.

    Or:
    If at any time you wish to terminate this operation, click Cancel.

  5. An Unpublish Progress popup will display the progress state of unpublishing the proxy API from the webMethods Mediator.

    If the publish process failed, identify and correct the error and then try publishing the proxy API again.

Unpublishing a Set of Proxy APIs

You use this procedure to unpublish one or more proxy APIs using the native API's Unpublish action.

Start of instruction setTo unpublish multiple proxy APIs

  1. In CentraSite Business UI, display the details page of the native API whose proxy endpoints (APIs) you want to unpublish from the webMethods Medaitor. For procedures, see the section Viewing Details for an API.

  2. On the API details page, click Unpublish. This opens the Unpublish API dialog.

  3. Choose the proxy APIs you want to unpublish from the drop-down labeled Virtual Alias. (The list will contain the proxy APIs that are defined for that particular API.)

  4. From the Available Targets list, choose one or more targets from which you want to unpublish the proxy APIs.

    Or:
    If you want to unpublish the proxy APIs from all the targets, select the All Targets checkbox.

    When attempting to unpublish the proxy APIs, without selecting at least on target, a warning popup box appears

  5. Click Unpublish.

    Or:
    If at any time you wish to terminate this operation, click Cancel.

  6. An Unpublish Progress popup will display the progress state of unpublishing the proxy APIs from the webMethods Mediator.

    If the publish process failed, identify and correct the error and then try publishing the proxy APIs again.

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