Best Practices documentation for API Gateway and API Portal

[burpr01]

Hello Team, 

 

Do we have any documentation for the best practices for API Gateway Cluster and API Developer Portal for Production environments?

 

- Provida

[Derek Orr]

What would you like to know?

 

Configuration of the cluster and how we maintain it?

 

This document states how to configure the cluster and how to maintain it with 2 different scripts.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Derek Orr

 

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PS API-G OPS - Clustering.Replication.pptx   2.07 MB 1 version

[burpr01]

Hi Derek,

 

Thank you for the quick response. Customer is looking for documentation, which lists important best practice configurations when going live with CA API Portal and CA API Gateway. For example, change the password for the root mysql db user, change the password for lrs db user for API Portal etc.

 

Can we suggest specified best practices in the provided document for any version of gateway?

 

Provided document states internal, can we share it with end customer?

 

- Provida

[mtrinath]

Your slide deck removed most of my queries and confirms my understanding and the set up I have done for my Customer. One thing which isn't mentioned though:

-> How do we configure JDBC connections using Manage JDBC Connections with primary and secondary nodes configured?

I have a JDBC lookup in my policy with connection pointing to local host and I realised during course of my testing that the node is a processing node and hence there is no data in the database leading to errors.

 

I managed to find this through a post in CA documentation. For those interested, can refer to http://media.datadirect.com/download/docs/jdbc/alljdbc/index.html#page/userguide/rfi1359985946656.html which has the required documentation of the connection properties for each driver. In my case, AlternateServers property of MySQL driver did the trick.

 

Thanks.