Configuring CentraSite Destination

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You have to configure CentraSite as a destination to establish a communication channel between webMethods API Gateway and CentraSite to exchange data.

Once an webMethods API Gateway asset is published from CentraSite to webMethods API Gateway, the CentraSite communication and SNMP configuration details automatically appear in the CentraSite destination of webMethods API Gateway. If the same webMethods API Gateway asset is unpublished from the webMethods API Gateway instance at a later time, the CentraSite communication and SNMP configuration details are automatically removed from the CentraSite destination.

Note: If you have already configured CentraSite as a destination in webMethods API Gateway, then publishing another webMethods API Gateway asset from any CentraSite instance to webMethods API Gateway fails and displays an error. In webMethods API Gateway, only one CentraSite instance can be configured as a destination at a time. To reconfigure another CentraSite instance, you need to use the Force reset CentraSite communication and SNMP details option.

To configure CentraSite destination

Expand the menu options icon , in the title bar, and select Administration.
Select Destinations.

Select CentraSite > Configuration to configure the CentraSite communication and SNMP details.

The Communication section displays the following information:

Field	Description
Protocol	Specifies the communication protocol used to establish communication between webMethods API Gateway and CentraSite.
Hostname	Specifies the host name or IP address of the machine on which CentraSite Application Server Tier (CAST) is running.
UDDI port	Specifies the port on which CAST is listening. The default port number for CAST is 53307.
Username	Specifies the CentraSite user ID for authenticating CentraSite when webMethods API Gateway communicates with CentraSite. This implies the user ID of a user who has the CentraSite Administrator role or the webMethods API Gateway Administrator role in CentraSite.
Target name	Specifies the name of the webMethods API Gateway asset as defined in CentraSite.

The SNMP section displays the following information:

Field	Description
Transport	Specifies the wire transport protocol that is used by the SNMP Listener. Supported values are: TCP and UDP.
Hostname	Specifies the CentraSite host name or IP address to which the SNMP listener binds.
Port	Specifies the port to which the SNMP listener binds. The default port number for CentraSite's SNMP server is 8181.
Username	Specifies the SecurityName that is used by the SNMP Listener.
Authorization protocol	Specifies the authorization protocol that is used by the SNMP Listener for decoding the incoming trap. Supported values are: MD5 and SHA.
Privacy protocol	Specifies the privacy protocol that is used by the SNMP Listener for decoding the incoming trap. Supported values are: AES128, AES, AES192, AES256, 3DES, and DESEDE.

Select Send SNMP traps to CentraSite to publish data about the runtime events and metrics to the CentraSite SNMP server.
Select Force reset CentraSite communication and SNMP details, and click Reset to delete the current configuration and restore the system configuration.
Click Save.
This establishes a communication channel between webMethods API Gateway and CentraSite.
Note: The transaction events are published from webMethods API Gateway to CentraSite using SNMP. The runtime metrics are published from webMethods API Gateway to CentraSite using a UDDI client.