Creating a provider organization account

For developer organizations to be able to share in your cloud and call published APIs, you first create a provider organization account and add an owner to the account.

Before you begin

This task can be completed by users who are assigned the following roles:
  • Cloud Owner
  • Organization Manager
You must also complete the following tasks before beginning:
  1. Configuring the Management service
  2. Configuring the initial Gateway service
  3. Adding a Gateway server
  4. Selecting the DNS scheme
  5. Specifying the cloud settings
  6. Connecting to an existing email server

About this task

You can create a provider organization account, then specify an owner for that organization.

Procedure

  1. In the Cloud Manager, click Organizations.
  2. In the Organizations pane, click Add Organization.
  3. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the organization.
  4. In the Name field, enter the string that is included in the organization segment of the URL for API calls.
    For more information, see Calling an API.
    Restriction: The path can consist of the following valid characters:
    • Lowercase alphabetic (a through z)
    • Numerals (0 through 9)
    • Hyphen (-)

    Note: a hyphen cannot be used as the first or last character. Also, the path must be 1-255 characters in length.

  5. Specify the owner of the organization.
    • If you are using a local registry as the Identity provider: To add an existing user, click Existing User, enter a search string and select the user from the Search Results window. To add a new user, click New User and enter the user's email into the text field
    • If the provider is LDAP: Enter a search string and select the user from the Search Results scroll window.
    • For both local registry and LDAP: If the search returns more than 100 results, refine your filter string.
    • If the provider is an authentication URL, enter the email address of the intended invitee.
    Important: When a user is invited to join a provider organization, secured by using LDAP, the username might (or might not) be case-sensitive, depending on how the user name is set in LDAP. For example, if LDAP is set as case-sensitive and the invitation includes a user name of USERA@mail.com, the user must sign into API Manager with USERA@mail.com (and not usera@mail.com). If the user name is entered incorrectly, the user cannot sign in and an error is displayed.
  6. Click Save to set the owner and close the Add Owner dialog box.
  7. When you are finished, click Add.
    The organization is added to the Organizations page, and an email invitation is delivered to the owner. Pending is displayed in the Status column of the Organizations pane, unless the new owner is an existing LDAP user, in which case a status of Active is displayed.

Results

The organization and owner are added to your cloud. If you selected a new user, the API Connect email invitation is delivered. The email invitation is shown as Invitation Pending until the recipient of the email clicks the link in the email to complete the creation of the account.