The main elements of API Management are Clients, Plans and APIs. All of them can contain Policy definitions. To be used, they need to be grouped by an Organization and related by a Contract. Image Modified
All of these elements need to be present in your API Management to make a private API accessible: The client is the consumer of the API. A plan is a set of policies that defines the level of service API Management provides for an API. The API itself is a representation of a real backend API (e.g. an xUML service). Policies are rules or units of work applied when the API is accessed.
APIs are created within API Management. They are published to the API Developer Portal from where consumers of the API have access to them. Image Modified
For more information on the concepts of API Management, refer to The Concepts of API Management. |