This self-paced training provides a jump-start into API Management and Software AG's webMethods.io API offering in the cloud. Short videos followed by hands-on labs on a free trial environment provide fundamental knowledge about API definition, provisioning, policy enforcement and usage within API Gateway and Developer Portal.

This course also allows you to earn a badge and be a Software AG Certified API Management Associate. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the purpose and benefits of API Management
  • Know Software AG's webMethods.io API cloud offering and its related products
  • Create and test basic APIs in a cloud-based API Gateway
  • Offer and advertise APIs in a cloud-based Developer Portal
  • Know about the need to secure APIs
  • Define and test basic APIs Policies in API Gateway

Software Versions Covered

  • webMethods.io API 10.11

Intended Audience

  • Software architects, Service providers, Service consumers, Service developers, Service manager administrators

Skills Pre-requisites

  • Understanding web services

Content Topics

  • What is API Management and why you need it
  • Introducing the purpose and advantages of an API Gateway
  • Advertising your APIs in a Developer Portal
  • Securing and invoking APIs in API Gateway
  • Diagnosis (of process problems)
  • What are policies and how to add them

Delivery Method

  • Basic courses are delivered as Self-Paced Courses (pre-recorded Instructor presentations, product demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, as applicable)

Self-Paced Duration

  • Minimum of 300 Minutes


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You like to innovate faster with APIs and need to know all about API Management? Or perhaps you want to expand your knowledge and gain a certification? If so, this hands-on comprehensive course has been designed to support API Developers, Service Providers, and Integration Architects who are aiming to achieve one or more of these objectives.

The API Management Essentials course is based on several parts:  Basic, Core and Electives.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Define and create APIs in API Gateway
  • Secure APIs using policies and DMZ-level protection
  • Use API Gateway as an API provider
  • Synchronize APIs in API Gateway with Developer Portal
  • Use Developer Portal as API provider and API consumer
  • Manage monetization
  • Analyze usage of APIs
  • Administer API Gateway and Developer Portal

Software Versions Covered

  • While this course was originally to provide knowledge on webMethods API Management platform 10.11 (Oct 2021), the cloud lab environment used in the Basic part will be based on the latest release.   

Intended Audience

  • Technical users interested in performing API Management tasks. For example:
    • Service Providers
    • Service Consumers
    • Service Developers
    • Integration Architects   

Skills Pre-requisites

  • Understanding REST/web services and API management concepts
  • Basic knowledge of Cloud computing concepts and terms
  • For advanced units, webMethods Integration Server knowledge is helpful

Content Topics

  • Signing up for a free trial of Software AG Cloud and webMethods.io API
  • API Management introduction
  • Definition and documentation of APIs in API Gateway
  • Identification and consumer management
  • Message transformation, routing and load balancing using Policies
  • Monitoring and SLA management
  • Threat protection
  • Analytics in API Gateway
  • Developer Portal integration and usage
  • Monetization of APIs with Packages and Plans
  • Analytics in API Gateway and Developer Portal
  • Administration of API Gateway and API Portal

Delivery Method

  • Essentials courses are delivered as Self-Paced Course (pre-recorded Instructor presentations, product demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, as applicable)
  • Please Note: Should you prefer to complete this course with a live instructor, please contact your Software AG Education Services for more details.

Self-Paced Duration

  • Minimum of 32 hours


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CentraSite is an enterprise API catalogue and SOA registry/repository. It helps to increase asset visibility and to re-use while guiding the development of new APIs, services and improving collaboration between business and IT. Besides a unified asset catalogue, CentraSite supports Lifecycle Management and active policy technology which automates the life-cycle process. In this course, attendees will learn how to use CentraSite functionality to ensure that the right services and APIs are built the right way.



Attendees: SOA architects, SOA developers, SOA librarians
Duration: 3 days
Prerequisite:
  • Sound knowledge of information processing
  • Understanding of Web services and SOA concepts
  • Programming concepts
  • For advanced chapters, XML, XML Schema and XQuery knowledge is helpful


Content:
    • SOA governance concepts
    • Organizational model (organizations, groups, users, roles)
    • SOA Command Center (browse, search, create assets, import assets)
    • Asset types (create custom asset types)
    • Active life cycle (life cycle stages and states, state transitions)
    • Active policies (policy scope, policy action, templates approval)
    • Runtime governance (consumer-provider relationship)
    • Consuming assets (consumer registration, asset navigator)
    • Software AG Designer support
    • Reporting (create custom report templates)
    • webMethods suite integration
Available languages: course book: English
course delivery: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Software version: CentraSite 10.7