Environments and Gateways Management

An environment defines an area in which products and applications can function; for example, test,development and so on. Physically, an environment maps to a TIBCO API Exchange Gateway cluster. The environment defines a base path, which typically represents a load balancer in the network, and includes a protocol, host, port number, and a path. For example, http://localhost:8080/base_path_to_api. APIs that are deployed in this environment can be accessed by applications using this base path.

The portal administrator creates an environment and specifies information such as the type of environment and base path URL, and then adds one or more gateways to the environment. The portal administrator can also view and update the configuration for the gateway clusters contained in the environment.