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Administration & Configuration

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Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Allow CD netmap in SSP multiple hosts/IP addresses under the same s-node name

Allow multiple hosts/IP addresses per CD node on SSP netmap. Currently in SSP v343 product, CD node and its address are 1:1 mapping. We currently have 4 CD server adapters on backend SBI 2 node cluster. These SBI CDSA all share the same CD node na...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under 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.
almost 7 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
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration