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Administration & Configuration

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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.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Limit CM-BACKUP to Defined Number of Backups

This would benefit all users of SSP who have the configuration managers set to backup on startup within the System Settings CMSystemSettings global tab. Right now SSP creates an unlimited number of backup. This requires users to run separate scrip...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under 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 LD...
over 6 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 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Functionality to correctly support multiple SFTP policies in a netmap

We would like to be able to use several SFTP policy in a single netmap (Adapter) with differret SSH authentication method.It will avoid the usage of several adapapters for each authetication method.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration managment needs to have a schedule and approval process

Changes made in the configuration management interface should require an approval process that could make an external call for validation if needed. This would require a scheduling function as well as an approval process.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Allow Sterling Secure Proxy to perform URL Redirection for Reverse Proxy

Sterling Secure Proxy on Red Hat Linux version 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64 is unable to route to different Outbound Nodes based on the URL that is sent to the proxy. Example (test vs prod at end of url):Incoming URL https:proxy.com:443/rosettanet/te...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Define custom SSP CM user roles

Allow SSP administrators the ability to create custom CM User Roles in order to fine tune user's access right based on individual needs The current Roles(Admin and Operator) are to limiting. For example the Operator role can not review node defini...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BKFS - SSP Account Unlock

Ability to unlock SFTP accounts through the GUI for SSP
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration