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SEAS UI Password Recovery

There is no way to recover the admin password for the SEAS UI in SEAS 2.4.3.2 iFix 6 build 208. Users cannot manage certificate renewal updates if they cannot login to the UI.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Utility option to a view only mode for SSP configuration

Currently the only way to view a configuration (Adapter, netmap,policy, etc ) is to open it for editing. This causes unnecessary riskto accidentally make changes of production configurations.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Key Expiry Notification and Secure+ Enabled

Sterling Secure Proxy Administration of Certificate Expiry and Secure+ Enabled View
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Support MQ HA for configuring JMS Topic

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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...

Allow SSP engine certificate to be configured through configureEngineSsl.sh directly

The configureEngineSsl.sh script only supports importing configuration exported from CM. Typically CM and SSP engines are installed on different machines in different network zones. The certificates will be put on the servers directly. It's a lot ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SSP

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

RFE for SSP - User Lockout feature

SSP - User Lockout feature. SSP -> Credentials -> User Store -> User Lockout Threshold setting A user account is locked after a specified number of failed login attempts. The number of failed login attempts allowed is defined by the User ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration