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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Standardize SFTP/FTP Server and client logs for external dashboard consumption like ELK

We are using the SFTP / FTP server and client logs to monitor user activity via Dashboard. We want to provide communication level visibility to our business users from our enterprise application that stores all our B2B data. Its very difficult to ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add creation or deletion of SSH profiles to the admin audit report

We have scheduled the admin audit report in SI. However it is not logging the creation or deletion of SSH profiles. Recently a SSH profile was deleted from SI and we don't know who did it.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT Event raised for Transfer IN and Transfer OUT

Hi team, Currently, ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT event is raised only when charge type CHARE (+/-) is created in the system. Event is not raised specifically for Transfer In and Transfer Out type transactions. In case of return receipt approval after e...
7 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

HTTP access log with URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc.

Security frequently audits to review the HTTP access logs for web server of Sterling Application (external facing apps). Security expect the HTTP access log to reflect the URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc. Can you suggest where to tr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration