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Sterling External Authentication Server

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Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the product without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. https://www.ibm.com/support/kno...

Email alerts for SEAS errors

Currently errors within SEAS cannot be detected without logging into the server and manually checking the SEAS logs. LDAP related failures (for example loss of connectivity to LDAP or expired password for the login we bind to LDAP with) are an exa...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Let keystore/truststore fields directly editable in the Admin Web Interfaca

In SEAS 6.0 GUI it was possible to specify keystore/truststore as local to the server in the GUI. In SEAS 6.1 the keystore/trust must be fetched from the users LAPTOP as the browse functionality is local to the browser and input fields are protected.

Add REST API for the RUN TIME information

REST API for the RUN TIME details (Connect, Validate, Invalidate, Generate, etc.,) will be helpful and simplify the integration with other systems.
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add "Session ID" for SEAS authentication attempts

In a high-traffic system it can be difficult to determine which log entries in the seas logs are related to a given authentication attempt. Currently we're forced to grep / search for the specific username /timeframe and then manually parse throug...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator and user Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information
about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Not under consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SEAS Logging Update - User Account/Key Auth

We have SEAS pointing to an LDAP for authentication. When a user account fails to authenticate via SSH public/private key, the logs show that failure in 'error' mode, but that line does not contain the useraccount that failed to log in. We can onl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Future consideration

More detailed ERROR logging for SEAS

SEAS logging at ERROR level does not provide sufficient information regarding authentication failures, forcing us to keep logging level at DEBUG which uses an extremely high amount of disk space in order to have sufficient log retention. For examp...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists