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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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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 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Need to be able to search/filter by process name for SLCs

We just recently upgraded our Test Control Center environment to 6.3.0.1. We've noticed that we cannot search by process name in the SLCs section. Only SLC Name and Description are available. This was available in 6.2.0.1.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Adding Custom Metadata to ICAP Request

We have a need to add additional custom headers to the ICAP request, as our Icap solution does support a header called x-metadata that meets ICAP protocol standard. For the extra header based on the documents it is when a file is unscanned you can...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Support multiple replicas and autoscaling for SSP engine containers.

The engine component of SSP naturally lends itself to multiple replicas and scaling like this and it would be very useful for autoscaling to create additional engines on demand. I do realize that all the engines would have to be "pre-defined" on t...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Future consideration

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

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 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting / Usability 3 Not under consideration

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas so we can identify what needs to be updated when a specific certificate expires and to validate all of the certificates have been renewed succe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Planned for future release

Enable custom widgets in CCM dashboards with global filters/multiple dashboards

MFT operators want to see multiple aspects of the health of their systems pulling in data from other tools such as sever performance as well as their own reports (either built with Jasper or by embedding reports from other tools like Grafana) on k...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted