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WebSphere Automation

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Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF

Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF. Audit Team doesn’t accept the CSV based reports as those are editable so it would be better if the Audit Reports generation ha...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

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 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Including Installation Manager updates

When patching WebSphere environments with Installation Manager there is an option to check for IM updates, there doesn't appear to be an option for that in WSA. It would be beneficial to have the option to update the Installation Manager software ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide "summary view" of WebSphere Automation registered servers, total servers, number of cores, etc

Since WebSphere servers are registered with WebSphere Automation, and WebSphere Automation is licensed on the total number of cores available to the registered WebSphere servers, we should provide a "summary page" that shows the total number of re...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration