Determine whether you will implement a single registry or multiple registries.

Install each instance of CentraSite and configure its connection to the external authentication system.

Identify the organization structure you will use for each registry, identify organization administrators, and create the organizations.

Defining Your Organizational Structure and Setting Up Users and Groups

Determine whether the default role assignments given to the Users group are appropriate for each organization and modify these assignments if necessary.

Consumer Organizations and Configuring the Default Roles that Assigns to Users in an Organization

Identify the types of assets that you want to catalog in CentraSite. Define new types of assets and customize the predefined types. Create the required taxonomies and association types to support your customizations.

Determine which asset types you will place under lifecycle management and create the required lifecycle models.

Determine which polices you want to place on the objects in your registry and create the required design/change-time policies to enforce these policies.

Create the Consumer Registration policy on each instance of CentraSite.

Using Policies to Execute a Consumer Registration and The Consumer-Registration Policy

Define a target and a user account for each webMethods Mediator that is attached to an instance of CentraSite.

Create the lifecycle model and associated policies required to enable deployment of virtual services.

Define the process your site will use for creating, deploying, and promoting virtual services and make sure that the participants in this process have the necessary permissions to perform their assigned tasks.

Defining Run-Time Policies and Managing Virtualized Services