An Overview of the Consumption Run-Time Environment
The consumption CentraSite supports the production environment. Typically, the consumption CentraSite is managed by the Operations or IT organization and only users in this organization are permitted to publish assets to it.
The consumption CentraSite is used by the following types of users:
Developers and analysts access the consumption
CentraSite to discover services that are available for reuse. When access to a native service is mediated by a virtual service, users who browse the catalog for re-usable services will see the virtual service, not the native service itself.
Designated administrators from the IT or Operations organization import the virtual services, run-time policies and native services that have been developed and tested in the creation
CentraSite. These administrators will also:
Adjust the permissions settings to ensure that these objects can be viewed by the appropriate groups of users (for example, they typically hide native services from developers and analysts who browse the catalog for reusable services and expose only the virtual services to those users).
Deploy virtual services to the
Mediator.
Owners of the consumer applications that invoke virtual services access the consumption
CentraSite to view the performance metrics and other events relating to the operation of virtual services running in the
Mediator.
