API Portal: How to access the portal pssg gateway via the policy manager

Products

• CA API Developer Portal
• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

In order to change any cluster wide property value or to troubleshoot it is sometimes needed to access the portal pssg/internal tenant gateway of a  API Portal. For version 5.1 of the portal the admin services of this gateway are not published by default. To enable this you can change the docker configuration.

Environment

Release: 5.x
Component: API Developer Portal

Resolution

• In the Portal VM, run the following docker command to open up the port for PSSG: 

docker service update --publish-add "8443:8443" portal_pssg --detach=false 

• Get the gateway admin user credentials by running the following command 

docker inspect $(docker ps --filter name=portal_pssg -q) | grep -e SSG_ADMIN_PASSWORD -e SSG_ADMIN_USERNAME

Install/use 10.1 Policy manager and access the PSSG using the following credentials: 

username: admin
password: the return value from Step #2 //You will probably need to change the password upon first login 
Gateway: <Portal VM hostname or IP>:8443 

 

• For security reasons be sure to remove the added port after the changes above have been made

          docker service update --publish-rm "8443:8443" portal_pssg --detach=false

 

NOTE: In recent versions of Portal (e.g. 5.3) the portal_pssg container has been deprecated/removed.

To retrieve user credentials, please run a docker inspect command against the portal_apim container

 

docker inspect $(docker ps --filter name=portal_apim -q) | grep -e SSG_ADMIN_PASSWORD -e SSG_ADMIN_USERNAME