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Installation & Upgrade

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"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Create Upgrade/Migration Process for SSP Engines/CMs

The SSP CM and Engines currently have to be on the same point release to function. This prevents a customer with a large installation base from gradually upgrading their environment. We have one CM with cold fail over and as many as 24 Engines att...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Create Config File Separate From Base Files

Each business might have specific needs on how they want the product to preform and may tune their installations differenently from the base install. There should be a way for that to happen without those changes being over written each time they ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Certificate Renewal is shown as successful though it is unsuccessful

When the license renewal of Connect:Direct certificate is unsuccessful, no message is shown on GUI or logs. When IBM support is contacted, they replied that the correct logs will be captured in debug mode. As an interim measure, IBM support asked ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Is a defect

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