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Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 21, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support Reusable Service Principals Across Multiple Storage Accounts in initparm

Today, a dedicated file.ioexit entry must be created for each Storage Account to specify which Service Principal should be used for authentication. As a result, the initparm file requires a separate configuration block for every Storage Account. The customer currently has approximately 30 Storage Accounts configured, resulting in around 30 file.ioexit entries and corresponding initparm blocks, which significantly increases administrative complexity and maintenance effort.

The proposed enhancement is to change the configuration model from the Storage Account level to the Service Principal level. With this approach, a Service Principal would be registered only once, while the Storage Account association would be defined directly at the CDP level. This would allow multiple Storage Accounts to reuse the same Service Principal, reducing the amount of required configuration and eliminating the need to modify the initparm file whenever a Storage Account is added or updated. This enhancement would simplify administration, reduce operational risk, and improve scalability for environments managing a large number of Storage Accounts.

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