CA Layer 7 API Management Training
With the acquisition of Layer 7, CA is pleased to provide industry-leading solutions for API management and mobile app development. In addition to analyst-acclaimed API gateways, the portfolio now includes tools that streamline the entire API lifecycle—helping businesses to create and build APIs, integrate across environments, ensure threat protection and accelerate mobile development.
Course Content:
- Introduction
- Product introduction and overview
- Product capabilities
- Architectural Overview
- Gateway Extensibility
- Product Demonstration
- General configuration
- Accessing the Gateway – administration
- Tools used for working with the Gateway
- Run through of key features using various use cases
- Key Concepts & Terminology
- Layer 7 Gateway concepts and Terminology
- Installation & Configuration of Gateway
- Review of Configuration
- Installation of Policy Manager
- Installation & Configuration of Portal Setup and Integration of Portal
- Configuration the Layer 7 Gateway
- Configuring the API Portal Instance
- Creating API's
- Configuring API Portal Metrics
- Installation of OAuth
- Install and configure OAuth components
- Test configuration with Test Clients
- Setup of Mobile Access Gateway
- Configure Mobile Access Gateway components
- Login to MAG Console
- Use of the Gateway (exposing and consuming services)-Creating services (i.e. Web Services, REST)
- Review of Policy Assertions
- Auditing, Logging and Debugging
- Routing & Error Handling
- IDM and RBAC
- Context Variables
- Service, Policy Fragments & Global
- Architecture, Clustering, Database Replication, Monitoring and Management Operations of the Gateway (including ESM)
- Typical Architectural Configurations
- Review of Clustering Functionality
- Understanding the role of MySQL
- Management and Monitoring of Gateway
- Review of Clustering Functionality
- API Portal for exposing services to Developers
- Exposing Gateway Endpoints to Portal
- Publishing APIs in the Portal
- API Plans and Roles
- The API Explorer
- Automated Documentation
- Metrics, Analytics and Forums
- Mobile Access Gateway
- WebSockets, XMPP, Notifications