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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Outbound traffic (AOS, callhome) through Proxy must be able to be inspected.

Proxy Security controls dictate that all network traffic leaving the organization must be inspected, controlled and managed. If there is a way to safely do this on all traffic (using certificates or any other way) to have the traffic decrypted for...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered