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The single API gateway allows clients to manage their vCenter deployment through a single RESTful API endpoint. It delivers notifications from linked vCenter services to clients via the API gateway notification service. The API gateway prerequisites include enabling the APIGW and APIGW_NOTIFICATIONS switches. Troubleshooting logs are stored in /var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/apigw.log.

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Single API Gateway PDF

The single API gateway allows clients to manage their vCenter deployment through a single RESTful API endpoint. It delivers notifications from linked vCenter services to clients via the API gateway notification service. The API gateway prerequisites include enabling the APIGW and APIGW_NOTIFICATIONS switches. Troubleshooting logs are stored in /var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/apigw.log.

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Single API Gateway

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Learner Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe how the single API gateway works
• Recognize the API workflow in vCenter Server 7.0
• Describe how the API gateway notification service delivers notifications
• Identify API gateway prerequisites
• Locate API gateway logs

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API Workflow
The API workflow of vCenter Server for versions earlier than 7.0

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Introduction to Single API Gateway
With the vCenter single API gateway, clients can manage their vCenter deployment through a
single and uniform RESTful API endpoint regardless of vCenter internal architecture, protocols,
and partitioning into services and nodes.

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API Gateway Notification Service
The API gateway notification service (API-GW NS) is a simple message router that delivers
notifications from linked vCenter services to a client.

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API Gateway Prerequisites
You must enable these switches on the API gateway:
• APIGW
• APIGW_NOTIFICATIONS
For beta release, enabling these switches is required. But for GA, these switches should be
enabled by default.

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Log and Log location
If you encounter a problem related to API Gateway , you can use the troubleshooting logs
• Log name: apigw.log
• Log location: /var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/

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Opening a Bug
To open a bug for API gateway in Bugzilla, you need the following information:
• Description of the problem
• Steps to reproduce the problem
• Logs

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Review of Learner Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe how the single API gateway works
• Recognize the API workflow in vCenter Server 7.0
• Describe how the API gateway notification service delivers notifications
• Identify API gateway prerequisites
• Locate API gateway logs

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