Set Up Your Partner Manager Environment

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

• Assign permissions to Anypoint Partner Manager users.
  
• Configure Partner Manager deployment settings.
  
• Describe what the payload storage API is used for.
  
• Set up the payload storage API.
  

Introduction

Now that you understand the key components of Partner Manager, let’s take a look at how Cloud Kick’s Partner Manager admin Linda uses Partner Manager to modernize the organization’s B2B ecosystems.

First, admin Linda contacts Cloud Kick’s Anypoint Platform admin to get access to Access Management. The admin ensures that her Anypoint Platform organization is enabled for business groups and assigns her account the Organization Administrator permission, which lets Linda assign permissions to other users.

Assign Permissions to Partner Manager Users

Linda’s eager to set up her Partner Manager environment. Her first step is to assign permissions. She wants her sales team to be able to create and modify partners and message flows, as well as view and manage transactions.

To assign permissions, Linda follows these steps:

1. Log in to Anypoint Platform and open Access Management from the home page.
   
2. In the Access Management sidebar, click Teams and then click the team name.
   
3. Assign these permissions to each Partner Manager environment so that your users have the access they need to perform actions like onboard new partners and manage transactions:
   

Linda can assign permissions to her entire team at once or to individual users. For more information, see Grant Permissions to Users and Configure Teams in the Access Management documentation.

Configure Runtime Deployment Settings

Next, Linda needs to deploy the Partner Manager runtime apps. She’s deploying them to CloudHub, but they can also be deployed to Anypoint Runtime Fabric. If Linda had multiple business groups to configure, she could individualize the settings for each one.

Deploy Partner Manager Runtime Apps to CloudHub

Here’s how to deploy Partner Manager runtime apps to CloudHub.

1. Log in to Anypoint Platform using an account that has the Organization Administrator permission.
   
2. In the sidebar, click Access Management.
   
3. In the Access Management sidebar, click Business Groups.
   
4. Select the business group that you want to configure Partner Manager deployment settings for.
   
5. Click Partner Manager.
   
6. In the Partner Manager Settings window, click Configure new environment.
   
7. In the Configure a Partner Manager environment window, select the new environment and then select CloudHub 1.0 as the deployment target type.
   
8. Complete the general settings, including runtime version and CloudHub region.
   

This example shows the general settings for a CloudHub 1.0 deployment:

9. Click Save.
   
10. Select Applications and define the app settings.
    

This example shows the application settings for a CloudHub 1.0 deployment:

11. Click Save.
    

Download and Deploy a Payload Storage API

Now, Linda needs to configure a storage solution by implementing a payload storage API that provides Partner Manager with a standardized way to connect to Cloud Kicks’s storage. She chooses Amazon S3, but other options are available, such as a database or Azure Blob Storage.

Cloud Kicks’s payload storage API is:

• Publicly accessible over HTTPS so that users can view the payload from Partner Manager’s Activity page.
  
• Configured within the host profile.
  

To configure a payload storage API, Linda follows the steps in the Configure a Payload Storage API documentation. Finally, she adds the payload storage to the host profile.

Now you know how Cloud Kicks uses Access Management to give its team access to Partner Manager and sets up its environment. The team is ready to create partners and manage transactions.

Resources

• MuleSoft Doc: Getting Started with Partner Manager
• MuleSoft Doc: Configuring CloudHub Deployment Settings