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Sterling Secure Proxy

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Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to suppress health check (log message)

Simple configuration on/off switch
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

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

Monitoring Adapters

Would it be possible to create a way to monitor secure proxy adapters from the command line? It is possible to monitor sfg that way and as such building automation around this capability is nice.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Need an ability to Stop and Start the SSP Adapters and Engines vis SSPRestAPI.SH and SSPRestAPI.properties

We are building a solution that will allow us to centrally manage all of our estate which includes IBM Sterling Secure Proxy. Currently we can see in the HTTPS webcalls we can see the methods to Start and Stop the adapters it will be good if we ca...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

MyFileGateway Password Policy, expiry prompt and password reset functionality for external users (i.e. LDAP via SSP/SEAS)

Ability to notify password expiry to the external users (i.e. LDAP user) via MFG Ability for external users to be able to reset their LDAP passwords via the MFG UI. Ability to relay the LDAP password policy to the external users via MFG Enforce LD...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists