Getting Started with API Management
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.
1. Create an API (asset) in the
CentraSite Business UI. For procedures, see
Creating an API.
2. Browse or Search for the API. For procedures, see Run-Time Governance with CentraSite .
5. Create a virtual copy of the API. For procedures, see Run-Time Governance with CentraSite .
7. Publish the API to Mediator for consumption. For procedures, see Run-Time Governance with CentraSite .
8. Request an API by registering as consumer for the API. For procedures, see Run-Time Governance with CentraSite .
11. Fetch and use your API key or OAuth token for consumption of the API. For procedures, see Run-Time Governance with CentraSite .
