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Administration & Configuration

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Block users from attempting authentication at the Secure Proxy level

We have a Secure Proxy engine that is exposed to the internet. As such we are subjected to a large number of "probing" login attempts from usernames such as "root", "admin", etc. All of our login attempts are passed to a Sterling External Authenti...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

SSP to support 9000+ IPs/range nodes in Inbound Netmaps for all protocols

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs/CIDR ranges to allow the traffic from. We have added 9000+ entries in Netmap nodes but when we try to edit/save/add more nodes manually the SSP CM GUI is hanging/breaks/not responding properly/going to inoperable state...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Support for IPv6 needed in SSP

The Bank Need support for IPv6 in sterling secure proxy. Please help to implement this
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Additional Authentication Exit in SEAS/SSP

External authentication is already achieved through SEAS, however, if additional authentication logic is required then the only way to achieve this is through a SEAS custom exit. Use of a SEAS custom exit means that we have to re-write the existin...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

All SSP logs controllable via LOG4J

From: Linzy Zhu [mailto:linzyzhu@us.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 7:57 AMTo: Chris SandersCc: Brad Zickert; Trainer, Jeffrey A; Bennett, Michael Z; Vipin MittalSubject: Re: Monthly Touch point Meeting Between FTS and IBM. Thanks Chris! Mich...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

SSP CM : Alternate JMS Connection Info under JMS Queue Management in Advanced - System Settings - CMSystemSettings - Globals

Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager Hello Team, Even though there is option to have multiple JMS Configuration under CMSystemSettings, at a time only one JMS configuration can be set in JMS Queue Management to enable JMS queuing for CM. Th...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Urgent - SSP increase the Netmap Inbound Node limit to support 9000+ nodes

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs/CIDR ranges to allow the traffic from. We have added 9000+ entries in Netmap nodes but when we try to edit/save/add more nodes manually the SSP CM GUI is hanging/breaking/not responding properly. In the same way we hav...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Urgent - SSP Netmap Inbound nodes limit increase to support 9000+ nodes

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs and CIDR ranges to be whitelisted/allowed on each and every protocol Netmap. After adding all these 9000 entries to a netmap GUI is not responding properly, add/save/edit of new/existing nodes is breaking the entire SS...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Introduce option in IBM SP to pass on the HTTP host header from client to the backend application

Currently IBM SP when configured as a HTTP Reverse Proxy, does not pass the HTTP host header from the client's request to the backend application. The request here is to have this a configurable option, similar to Apache's ProxyPreserveHost option.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered