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My ideas: WebSphere Automation

Auditing Requirement for CVE Remediation Reporting (wsa-cves_for_servers_report )

To comply with auditing requirements, the customer requires a report that identifies which CVEs have been remediated on their servers and verifies whether the remediation occurred within the mandated timeframe. For instance, for CVSS scores of 9 o...
5 months ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Request to use a well-known CA or the customer’s CA to sign TLS certificates for all communications

The customer’s security policy prohibits the use of self-signed or wildcard certificates in production environments. WebSphere Automation (WSA) allows the use of the customer’s CA for UI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=instance-con...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Request WebSphere Automation to support products BAW and BPM with embedded WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Automation (WSA) helps my client manage the security of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Application Server Liberty installations, including those embedded in certain IBM products. WebSphere Automation detects unresolved ...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Increase filtering options in the UI

Hi, In our infrastructure, we have 5 cell names, each name represent all the environments of each one, I mean, the cell name 90app_cell ( for example ) is the same for each environment ( DEV/INTG/QA/PROD), and we maintain the same instance name in...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Provision for Tagging Servers with Environment and Application Name to Maintain WAS Inventory and listing these using these tags

Currently there is no features of custom tagging so dashboard showing all the server without any grouping. Custom tagging will allow to tag the servers with their environment (PRD/UAT/DEV) and Application Names. So this will allow to do the listin...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

IDEA En-mass Group Execution of a CVE ifix – Priority 2

We concur’s with the recommendation on the IDEA to potentially do a singular remediation against many target servers; that is to do an enmass group execution of a CVE ifix.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

IDEA Fixpack Augmentation – Priority 1 The recommendation is to augment the remediation artifact to include the entire history of the available fixpacks that are applicable to a vulnerability which is not done today. The current view on the glass reflects IBM’s design decision taken from a security standpoint, that WSA will promote the latest fixpack as a best practice and will most likely remain as the default choice. Kaiser can work with the API approach to install fixpacks that are not at the latest level via API customization but it would be nice to have it in the UI visibility.

As an example of why this approach would be useful, consider Kaiser’s current approach offers developers the choice of n-1, n-2, and current fixpack version. A view on the glass that will show if eight of ten CVE’s are fixed in one fixpack, that K...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered