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WebSphere Automation

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

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

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...
4 months ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for one WebSphere Application Server

The IDEA is part 1 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107; it limits the change scope to one server. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSph...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

This IDEA is part 2 of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 . it builds on top of IDEA WASINTOPS-I-109 and extend to multiple servers. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect tr...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Support WebSphere Automation install on an OpenShift FIPS Enabled Cluster

HCSC and many other customers that work with the government or other entities that work with the government are required to follow FEDRAMP standard. FIPS is a key part of FEDRAMP standard. When an OpenShift Cluster is created, these customers are ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Automation of WAS Fixpack and IF

There are multiple security vulnerabilities affecting WebSphere Application Servers. It is almost every month we are applying interim fix or a fixpack. We are using Installation Manager to apply the fix. Please develop the Installation Manager or ...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

WSA to download patches to NAS/SAN disk and mount the volume to the managed host during patch deployment

WSA downloads the FixPacks to the "/home/wasadmin/.wsa/fixes" file system. My customer encounters a problem with 8.5.5 FP023. The size of FP is 6GB, and there is not enough space to download it. The customer's AIX admin set a limit to the size of ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered