Deleting a consumer organization

When you delete a consumer organization, all of the resources in that organization are removed from the cloud. However, the account of the organization owner remains in API Connect.

Before you begin

To complete this task, you must be defined as a member in a Catalog or Space (if Spaces are enabled), and you must be assigned a role that has the Consumer-Org > Manage permission. For more information, see Adding provider organization users and assigning roles and Managing Catalog membership.

Important: If you delete a consumer organization, client IDs and secrets associated with applications that were registered by users in the consumer organization can no longer be used to call APIs. However, the account of the organization owner remains in API Connect.

About this task

When you delete a consumer organization, it is removed permanently and users can no longer access that organization.

If Spaces are enabled in your Catalog, when you delete a consumer organization, it is deleted from the Catalog and its Spaces. For more information about enabling Spaces, see Using syndication in API Connect.

Procedure

To delete a consumer organization, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation pane of the API Manager UI, click Manage icon in the API Manager UI navigation pane Manage, then select the Catalog that you want to work with.
  2. Optional: If Spaces are enabled in the Catalog, select the Space that you want to work with by completing the following steps:
    1. Click the Spaces tab.
    2. Select the Space that you want to work with.
    For more information about enabling Spaces, see Using syndication in API Connect.
  3. In the navigation pane of the API Manager UI, click the Consumers tab.
  4. Click the options icon More actions icon alongside the consumer organization you want to work with, then click Delete.
  5. Click Confirm to delete the consumer organization.
    Note: If the consumer organization is the only one specified in the custom visibility settings for a published Product, the deletion operation will fail. For more information, see Changing the availability of a Product.