4.7 Post-Deployment Steps

After you have deployed Secure API Manager on one or more appliances, you must perform some post-deployment steps. Some of the steps are appliance-specific and some of the steps are for Secure API Manager.

  1. Record the IP address, DNS name, and login information for each appliance. When you deployed the appliance, you set these values. Creating a record helps you in the future when you have to apply patches or perform any additional administrative work for the appliance. For more information, see Recording the IP Addresses, DNS Names, and Login Information for the Appliances.

  2. Secure API Manager contains only one administrative global user account. Secure API Manager is an appliance and every deployment of Secure API Manager contains this same user with the same password. The user is admin and the password is admin. You must log in to the appliance management console for Secure API Manager and change the password. For more information, see Changing the Password for the Global Administrator in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 1.1 Administration Guide.

  3. By default, the only user you can use to access the appliance management console is root. You set the password for the root user when you deployed the appliance. There is an additional administrative user for the appliance with the name of vaadmin. You must set a password for the vaadmin user before you can use it to log in to the appliance management console. Log in to the appliance management console as root, then set a password for the vaadmin user. You must do this for each appliance you deploy. For more information, see Setting Administrative Passwords in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 1.1 Administration Guide.

  4. Log in to each appliance management console and register the appliance to receive security and product updates. For more information, see Performing an Online Update in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 1.1 Administration Guide.

  5. Create user accounts for the API developers to access the Publisher and Store so they can create APIs in a single location. For more information, see Managing Users in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 1.1 Administration Guide.