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Usability

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Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
about 1 hour ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Concept of Certificate Grouping and Referring Group Directly Under Netmaps

In Today's world, when Client Authentication is Enabled in SSP, firstly we need to get the root and intermediate certs and check-in to the SSP and then choose the new certificates in the respective netmaps. The number of netmaps we need to make th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Not under consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

SSP - Disable TLS1.0

SSLv3 is disabled by default in SSP in the java.security file with the following line of code. We have attempted to add TLS1 to disable TLS1.0 only and we were not successful. Adding TSL1 to the list of algorithms disabled all versions of TLS not ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

Ability to see perimeter server status on SSP (i.e. monitioring - running/stopped)

Currently we're unable to see which perimeter servers are active on the Sterling Secure Proxy engines, this in turn can cause issues if duplicates are present. This would mimic the monitoring ability currently in place for adapters.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Disable save button until any configuration change is made

Prevents update to configuration when no changes are made.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Suppress password policy error messages from SEAS logs if using Ping for Active Directory.

ERROR LdapPasswordPolicyRetriever - ************** Uknown or unsupported LDAP server detected We use Ping for our Active Directory solution and it was determined that Ping does not return the password policy to SEAS as expected. Therefore, this...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration