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Sterling Secure Proxy

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Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Disable save button until any configuration change is made

Prevents update to configuration when no changes are made.
11 months 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
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Suppress password policy error messages from SEAS logs if using Ping for Active Directory.

ERROR LdapPasswordPolicyRetriever - ************** Uknown or unsupported LDAP server detected We use Ping for our Active Directory solution and it was determined that Ping does not return the password policy to SEAS as expected. Therefore, this...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

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 1 year 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 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

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

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