Layer7 API Management Initial Setup

Ronald D'Souza - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant for CA Southern Africa at Hyperion Holding Pty Ltd

Options available:

1. Scripted

2. via Migration Utility

3. Headless deployment

All of the above are easy to configure and deploy.

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MohammadImran - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at ICICIBANK Ltd

The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, especially compared to other API management tools. Layer7 API Management is one of the best solutions because it is available on the on-premises version as well.

The solution is deployed on the on-premises model and on the cloud.

It doesn't take much time to deploy the solution. To deploy the solution, users just need to get the instances ready, and once we get the application files or installation files from Broadcom, it doesn't take much time. The deployment can be done within one to two days.

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Aniket Karle - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very simple. It's straightforward and you can just go through the mock ups step by step and implement. I do the deployment myself, it's very simple. 

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Arpit Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise API Architect at Al-Futtaim Group

The guys we used to do the installation were from a local UAE team. Their experience on Azure is limited. But at this point it is fine. I think we are more-or-less satisfied that what we have now is done correctly. 

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SM
Director IT Services at Telomeres

I'm rating the initial setup for Layer7 API Management as eight out of ten because it was easy to do.

Deploying the product took two months.

Before deploying Layer7 API Management, my company studied the existing landscape through the customer guide and did a feasibility study on the requirements, such as the APIs, volume of transactions, etc. The company then planned the transaction methodically and then secured the license. Upon installation, my team used it, got the certification, and implemented Layer7 API Management in a highly available environment. Next, my company deployed the product in a production environment, did the configurations, created the documentation, did an overall training, and then pushed the product to live status.

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VK
Enterprise Integration Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Installing Layer 7 API management is not a quick process. It typically takes a couple of hours, but due to potential configuration challenges, it might extend to a few days to ensure it works as intended. The complexity lies in the installation and configuration steps, requiring attention to detail.

The deployment process for Layer 7 API management depends on your familiarity with the product. If you are new and following documentation, there is a risk of missing details. Generally, one person can handle the deployment, but in a production environment, involving someone with Unix expertise might be necessary.

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SZ
CA Layer 7 API Gateway Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Layer7 API Management is easy to maintain. 

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SP
Sr. Systems Engineer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is straightforward, but now we're trying to cache some of the responses and there is no real guidance on how this works.

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RaviVerma1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead API Engineer at Boubyan Bank

The initial setup of Layer7 API Management is not complex. The process took approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

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VN
Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Layer7 API Management's deployment was straightforward. 

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RB
Principal Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is easy compared to Apigee.

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UP
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's not overly challenging. The documentation is quite comprehensive, and the support from the dot command is also reliable. Overall, it's a comfortable experience, and I haven't encountered any significant issues or concerns.

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ES
API Technical Lead at Sanlam

The complexities came into areas where our company wanted to change the default behaviour in the deployment model of the product. Try and stick to the vendor recommendations as close as possible. If it is different to your architectural norms, then challenge your own standards as well.

Our initial understanding of the product's multitenancy made us deploy in a specific way. It could have been done better if we had understood it more clearly.

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MJ
Lead Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The deployment for CA's API Management, the way we're using it, took a couple of months and then we were operational. Our planning was typical Waterfall-type planning, at the time. We had a problem and targeted the problem with that solution. Our problem concerned security, protecting our grid-control area.

It took three FTEs for what we are doing. We also have a support structure around that. There's a whole team that manages the infrastructure and configurations of the policies. Since it has been up and running, it has required about one FTE to maintain it.

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it_user778824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Design Engineer at Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

I was not involved in the initial setup, but I have been setting up new instances, and it is quite straightforward. 

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AS
ALiBS Solutions at ALiBS Solutions

The initial setup was very easy and straightforward. However, the first and second time we did it was a bit complex because we were not used to the installation.

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it_user581829 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architecture / Digital Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I was involved in the installation, and it was easy for me.

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it_user491508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software XML Gateway Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Initial setup was in between straightforward and complex.

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AT
GM - Head of Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The setup was a bit complex in the beginning, but I think that's for true for any technology that you want to implement for the first time.

The deployment took six to eight weeks. We had a roadmap that we were following, as an implementation strategy. I can't go into what that process was. For the deployment, we had five FTEs on our side and the implementation team had another two or three, and there was also a manager.

Once it was deployed it took four people to maintain it and for API development. And then we had a team of 40 Intel developers who were using it off and on.

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JK
Senior Director IAM Security Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. They provided us with a container and we got it up and running, and then we just started working on it. You can follow the instructions pretty easily.

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it_user881124 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Initial setup was straightforward. We were able to set up in five weeks, including policies.

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it_user482415 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was not that complex. It's pretty straightforward and easy to set up. There are a few optimizations and nuances that you may not be able to do as a starter, but you should be able to get help from CA support to do those. 

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YH
Software Developer III at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial installation was straightforward. We split the release and the patching takes a few minutes with a few mouse clicks. We automate most of the process.

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JV
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup wasn't that hard. You got all the Postgres and all those other little add-ons. It makes sure you've got this installed and that installed. There are prerequisites for what it needs before it gets up and running, but that's a piece of cake.

It all depends on how good your developers are. I know Nutanix and VMware. If you want to do a quick setup with VMware, they have everything preloaded, everything comes in one package, and everything needed for your application to work is already loaded into the bundle.

With SolarWinds, everything is configured for their SolarWinds app, and it's like having a Windows disc with the little features you can add. It's like, if you install the software for Windows or some of these other applications, you can break it down to where you can add in features as needed.

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it_user558072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Middleware Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

I was involved in the installation and implementation. I think it was lacking some documentation around performance tuning and getting the product operationalized so that it could maintain itself. The documentation is still a little bit lacking in those areas. The documentation is available on demand, or on informal places like community chat groups where you can get information, but as far as in the product documentation itself, it's lacking in those areas.

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it_user17886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Security & IT Office of the CIO at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pretty straightforward; the biggest issue was the initial hardware that we purchased. CA sold the product on a certain kind of UNIX box, but those boxes weren’t appropriate for the solution – it was well before CA took over.

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it_user882708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development - Alliances and Partnerships at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was quite straightforward.

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PB
Computer Scientist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The setup itself is not that complicated since we used a VM form factor. The software setup, obviously, is a different story. But the network part that goes in, the firewall connection that goes in, and then, the load-balancers, the global traffic managers, all these things are not really that complicated. The gateway setup itself is not that complicated.

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it_user778875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Developer at United Services Automobile Association

I was not involved in the initial setup but I am involved in the OTK upgrades.

Well when we went from 9.1 to 9.2 it was pretty straightforward. The OTK, however, is a complex upgrade. They tend to change the schemas on the database behind it, between the versions, which can be a pain to have to migrate all of our existing clients from one database schema to the other. It also means working with the DBAs to set up side by side schemas so we can get them moved and switched over in a fully available.

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it_user572838 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, .Net And Mobile Applications Development at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was very easy. We just downloaded the actual VM appliance; implemented that. There are six or seven steps that you do to configure it for the environment. Once we set up our load balancer and stuff, it was up and running and ready for us to use. It's very, very simple.

The patch process is the same way. All you do is you download the newest version, put it out there, and then just do those six or seven steps, and we're up and running. We can replace it very quickly.

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it_user479754 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founding Partner - Principal at Vanick Digital

The initial setup and the configuration is relatively straightforward. I think the more challenging aspect of it is, like any solution that's an enterprise scale solution, is just getting the base infrastructure agreed upon, configured and implemented. Once that's accomplished it's very easy to configure and set up.

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it_user778794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Principal at FedEx Corporation

It was probably not that straightforward, because the vendor team (CA Services) struggled a bit. 

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SP
Sr. Systems Engineer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was straightforward.

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it_user348429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - API Management at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Nothing in IS is ever simple. However, the install went very smoothly. The OVA files that you install into your VMware infrastructure -- configuration and getting them set up in the clusters went smoothly (respecting internal processes). The setup and config wasn’t that difficult. There was much more of a learning curve on our end to leverage and learn how to use the API gateway. It’s sort of like a Swiss army knife in that you have to learn how to use which tools and when.

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it_user482193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Delivery, Enterprise & Platform Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Initial setup is good. It's straightforward. It's not that tough and it's an appliance, so that kind of took away wireless installation and base installation time, so our IT infrastructure team really loved it.

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GS
Technical Director at SoftPro

The implementation of CA API Management was complex. It took us (my colleague and me) six months to implement with two people. My colleague was responsible for implementing the API Gateway. 

My colleague is a system engineer. Because I am a programmer, I am in charge of the design and customizability. It is a complicated solution. You have to know so much IT knowledge to do the implementation.

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it_user778806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Clarity Iq Inc

I'm going to assume that this question is asking, "Was I involved when we got on board with this product?" Yes, because I bought it. They were there for support but the question is not relevant because it's so easy. It's deploying a WAR file. If you can deploy a WAR file, you're done.

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it_user778812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Principal at FedEx Corporation

The initial setup was very complex.

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it_user779280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Global Devops at Encore Capital Group

We bought 16 gateways earlier this year and we're setting them up right now. It's good. Straightforward.

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it_user778716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been involved more from the development standpoint. We're set up in two groups, an operational side which sets up the infrastructure, does actual server software; I haven't been involved too much from that standpoint. It's more in the development side, to get initial templates together and patterns that we're going to apply. And just coming up with some standards for our developers to use.

I would say it's complex. But I think part of it is just the nature of what this stuff is, when you're dealing with security and the variety of approaches that there can be. That makes it complex. For us, it was relatively new, so there were a lot of challenges there to just learn all the different aspects of it. 

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it_user558081 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at Logisticare

I wasn't involved. I worked with the technician who adopted the technology. I conducted our schedule and attended all the sessions. I selected the technology for the enterprise. It is complex. It's a complex scenario but it's not cumbersome or overbearing. Anytime you adopt a new architectural model, you are going to have challenges. It's as good as things get when you start dealing with something this complex.

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it_user558057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

I was part of the initial setup but CA was there with us to help through the implementation process. It's not complex.

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it_user558309 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not involved in the setup of this product. Since I was an architect, I brought the product in our organization, made people aware of it, socialized it within the enterprise with different stakeholders and now they're leveraging it.

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SM
CEO at Next Generation Technocom Pvt Ltd

The initial setup process is easy and flexible.

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Stefan Zivanovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at CyberGate Dfenese

The initial setup process is easy. The deployment time depends on the custom applications. It takes time to integrate configuration to explain the process to small business vendors.

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VK
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The deployment was pretty straightforward.

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AK
Layer7 API Developer at Allied Globetech

The setup is straightforward. If I'm doing it on a local machine, it takes 20 to 30 minutes for a single client. I don't have any implementation strategies. It's a straightforward process where you just need to select the options, click enter, enter, enter, and provide whatever input is required.

Before starting the implementation with a customer, we give them the prerequisites that are required. If those prerequisites are met, it doesn't take much time to do the deployment. They have to provide the IP, the hostnames, and the port openings.

In our last deployment, it took me two days to install all the port services. There was one replication and there were two persisting nodes. I did the complete installation and was initially involved in the API development. After that, my colleagues were involved in the development of APIs.

It requires a minimum of two people for maintenance, once it's up and running.

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it_user778611 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was complex. It ran into a lot of problems. It was a new release. It was a 4.1 release. We spent the first day or so, probably almost two days, getting it to accept the proper IP from the DNS name. We ran into certificate problems. Mainly, just the installation script in our particular environment did not work very well. So, instead of what should have taken us a couple hours, or what we planned for a few hours, it ended up taking about three and a half days.

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it_user631233 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Of IT Development at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward. CA has clear and concise documentation to walk you through the initial setup process for both simple and complex deployments.

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it_user558405 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I jumped in to the second or third upgrade, not at the initial setup.

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it_user558021 - PeerSpot reviewer
API Champion at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Initial setup was a little bit of both straightforward and complex. We are a large company and have certain scenarios that make things a little bit more complex. CA's always been really good about being right there with us to understand some of our challenges.

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it_user558360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Group Technology at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were involved in the initial setup and found it to be a little difficult. The reason being, we implemented this product on Microsoft Azure and the product features on Microsoft Azure were not updated at that time. So, there were some initial hiccups. However, CA professional services and my team were involved extensively to get it rectified. CA services did play their part in making sure that whatever the shortcomings, if any, were addressed. It was a good involvement from their end.

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it_user497217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of API Management Division at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The CA product is very easy to set up. A development environment can be stood up in an hour or two.

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it_user343143 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, EIM Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was complex and difficult mainly because we didn’t have heavy Linux support guys.

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it_user880812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at Infosys Technologies Ltd

The initial setup is simple. If you are a novice it could be complex, but if you are good at working with computers it should be very simple. It takes about seven or eight minutes, including configuration.

All we have to do is consider our code and environment for the applications. For instance, what things are going to happen.

We used three people for deployment. One is project development guy that we might move because development is getting smooth nowadays.

We currently have 18 people, of which seven are developers and three are in management. So there are eight people in back-end maintenance.

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it_user797973 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Enterprise Solutions - Financial Services at Samsung

There is a server element and a client-side element. The server side installation is fairly straightforward. We don't provide hardware for the server installation, but we provide specifications, then we will help an organization work through it. In pretty much a day or two, you can get a server stood up and working. 

On the client side, it is integrating. You're taking this SDK, and you're integrating into native mobile apps. The complexity of that depends upon what you are trying to accomplish. Certainly, with simple use cases, we have had people spin this up in days. As you get more complex in the use cases, you might be looking at weeks. However, this is not a three to six month type of implementation timeframe. It is more of a three to six-week type of implementation timeframe.

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AM
Business development manager at Sec4you

The initial setup is very easy.

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BC
IT / Enterprise Architect, IT Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

There are some complexities to the installation, of course, but I do not think it is very complex overall. On the other hand, I would not say that it is straightforward. What we did was have the Layer7 people come to help us get educated. There was a company representative from the Netherlands who came to help us with courses and learning about the product and he explained things well. That was sufficient in order to get started.  

There were no initial shocks or difficult things with the installation. It ran fairly smoothly.  

But I say that it is not simple because it is not a minor effort. You have to prepare and do things as you roll it out. It is not enough to just connect it, put on the networks, and plug-and-play. You need a somewhat educated staff of people who are technically savvy enough to work with the product. But if you do everything right, then you will not have any trouble.  

The part that is the most complex is where you have to define policies. In that case, you have to know what you are doing. If you want to accomplish some things that are more innovative then you need to understand everything.  

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AM
Business development manager at Sec4you

The initial setup is a piece of cake.

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VK
Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Setup was ok. CA was always available for any support issues.

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it_user882714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Experts in Integration Models at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

They have different installation models. Therefore, there are always small drawbacks. Fortunately, if you use the OVA, your installation is direct.

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it_user639678 - PeerSpot reviewer
OSS Enterprise Architect

The setup was complex, definitely complex. As above, don't underestimate the effort required to build a HA/FT instance of this for both the Gateway and the Developer Portal. Be aware of additional licenses for your warm standby. Ensure you get plenty of non-production licenses.

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it_user484275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Technology Governance and Architecture at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Every project starts with something small but in our case we also started small, but eventually it grown into a big elephant in the room, so that’s how we got into. Right now we realize we can be small at the same time as we can be a big elephant in the room. We try to find that medium aspects of it where rubber meets the road and what we really need. It’s not too complex at this point of time. We are scaled down to accommodate what we want to begin with.

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it_user351327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward.

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SW
Automation Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's a complex product, but I would say that the initial setup is straightforward.

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it_user778623 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technologie

It was three years back, and at that time there wasn't a lot of automation going on with the API Gateway. It was a lot manuals, so we're using the OVA version of the API Gateway. As time went on, with the API Gateway you can pretty much auto-provision things. But two years back at least, I wasn't aware of that, so there was some manual steps. But even manual it was still quite painless to get it done.

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it_user558363 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology - Integration Technology Engineering at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was not involved with the initial setup.

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SG
student at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was moderately complex, due to various deployment models and integration with its own components.

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it_user701361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user345549 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Mobile/Web Solution Delivery Manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Initial setup was pretty straightforward.

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it_user399735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The setup was simple, as it comes with the OVA file. It reduced a lot of time and problems in the deployment. The main focus is on integration with client's exiting infrastructure, instead of setting up Layer 7.

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SM
CEO at Next Generation Technocom Pvt Ltd

It was a little complex initially. We struggled a bit initially to understand this solution, but later on, it was okay. I do not exactly remember the issues, but initially, our team was facing a lot of problems in terms of virtualization.

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it_user674037 - PeerSpot reviewer
Transformation and Change Management Leader at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was somewhere between straightforward and complex, requiring an intermediate level of effort on our part due to our particular requirements. Otherwise, the solution is relatively straightforward to set up.

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it_user778770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect

I developed the PoC and then moved it to production.

The setup is not complex, and we got very good support from CA technical support and Professional Services. I felt the technical support was really good compared to the Professional Services.

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it_user778629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect

I was not directly involved but I was on the side getting feedback from the guys who were doing the real set up. It was a mixture out of straightforward implementation or installation and rather complex stuff. We're dealing with a specific installation image that was due to the fact that we were using specific combination of hardware, software and operating system.

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it_user635433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees

The setup was quite straightforward, for experienced software developers. Layer7 Technologies back then provided (for a fee) a week-long on-site training for our staff, including myself. Extended trial licenses (longer than the usual 30 days) were also provided for us to become familiar with the product before we committed to buying licenses.

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it_user353421 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

API Management setup was very straightforward. I was involved with that, and the documentation was helpful.

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it_user898710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward, like creating and deploying an API. Everything happens in one single loop.

If you install the CA API gateway, it takes about 15 minutes, as it is available in OVA format. If you go with the OVA format, you don't need to do much configuration. Then, it comes up in an internal MySQL database.

The API Developer Portal takes easily an hour to set up.

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AS
Practice Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The setup was very simple and straightforward.

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it_user352995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have development test-production environments, so to get it on our infrastructure under our own management tools, there's a lot of bureaucracy. So it's not just a push-button type deal; it requires a lot of coordination, tickets, firewall changes, provisioning hardware, things like that. All that to say that the initial setup was not straightforward but rather complex.

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SK
Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Initial setup is straightforward. It is simple,easy to do and quick to go to market

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it_user778503 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have been involved in deploying this product in several of our different environments from the ground up as well as in the upgrade process. From the CA part of it, everything has gone smooth. The problems are always on our side with our environments. I think the Gateway itself is a very simple product to get up and running and their upgrade process is good as well. There are a few little tricky things here and there like with everything, but for the most part, they continue to work to adjust it. 

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it_user778995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It wasn't really all that complex. What we had before was really pretty complex. When compared to that, what we have with CA is not.

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it_user558069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Platform Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I wasn't here for the setup.

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it_user607752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant
it_user637836 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Integration Developer I at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was straightforward. I started using the product after it was already built-in.

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it_user354006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were some issues during the initial setup. Our cloud-hosting partner required certain things, such as ESXi hosts and images. They were very particular about what kind of image they wanted versus what kind of image CA provided. So what I think would be an improvement would be support for additional virtualized form factors.

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it_user778983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Prof IT System at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I was involved in the initial setup. We brought in CA Professional Services to help start the infrastructure in our installation.

It was not complex, documentation-wise it is good. CA maintains the documentation very nicely, so based in the documentation we were able to set up the environment. It is all straightforward.

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it_user667791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. CA documentation is pretty clear for anything to do with CA products. They are masters in this industry.

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it_user502011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Developer/ Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Initial setup wasn’t straightforward.

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RS
Consultor de segurança at a tech company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is good. For our requirements, it fits our appliances. 

The initial deployment of the software was two hours, i.e. to have the API data up and running.

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it_user760710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager API Management - Digital Technology Services at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Complex to set up and operate. Requires deep understanding of networks, security, as well as API management.

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it_user351495 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Engineer (R&D for VoIP, Networking and P2P) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was easy, but I had some issues with the software. I want them to simplify the upgrade method.

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it_user882711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was a complicated setup but we had help.

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Buyer's Guide
Layer7 API Management
March 2024
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