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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 10, 2022

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This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit SPF-I-3191 A warning message shoul be generated thirty days before the certificates expire. s.

Ease Certificate Replacement Merged

The use of self-signed certificates is often prohibited by security institutions, so that CA signed certificates must be used, which have a limited period of validity.

Since an ISP installation usually has a longer period of use than the validity of such a certificate, it must be possible to easily and automatically exchange the certificate of an ISP server without having to configure the ISP clients connected to the server (B/A client /ISP for VE / ISP for DB / etc.) manually.

The necessary activities when exchanging a certificate from an ISP server consist of a large number of manual interventions.

If a client is already working with a server certificate, the dsmcert.idx file must first be deleted so that a client can pull the new certificate from the server.

Especially in larger ISP environments, there are unacceptable administrative expenses and service interruptions.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 5, 2022

    The way to solve this today is to manually roll out the CA certificate on the clients, as long as you renew your server certificate from the same CA the client will continue to work without any actions needed. This is how we solve this in production.


    A low hanging fruit would be to just document how to do this, and from there figure out how to make this easier in the client install wizard.

  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     Jun 17, 2022

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

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