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PowerSC Patch Management replication feature should work with non-root users

The PowerSC Patch Management feature allows Primary-Secondary TNCPM topology- the primary server downloads TLs, SPs, ifixes etc and replicates them to the the secondary TNCPM server. For this, we need to configure password-less root SSH between pr...
6 months ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

PowerSC MFA solution to create an allow/block list for users.

It would be useful to have a feature added to PowerSC MFA inorder to create a list of users to which the MFA should not be applicable. This is a requirement in our environment as we have multiple automation/service users which perform some kind of...
about 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

PowerSC TNCPM should allow installation of ifixes without NIM

PowerSC TNCPM is widely used by customers to deploy security patches on AIX LPARs. Currently, the security ifixes are installed through NIM server. Some customers do not use NIM because NIM has a complex port requirement as described in the follow...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

PowerSC should provide a configurable parameter to specify the validity of TLS certificates

PowerSC is a great tool to manage security and compliance of AIX and Linux endpoints running on Power servers. PowerSC server communicates with the endpoints in a secure way using a TLS connection. Currently, the validity of TLS certificates is ha...
about 4 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

PowerSC GUI server custom bind address

By default PowerSC GUI Server listen on all IP addresses, binding to the port 443 (customizable), and there's no way to specify a custom/specific IP address for the binding. This is quite critical as if there are other services listening on the sa...
almost 6 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

NEED ADDED FEATURES FOR AIX TRUSTED EXECUTION

Hi Team, We use AIX trusted execution in our environment for some of critical AIX servers. The application is such that it undergoes some or other update very frequently and we have to repeatedly whitelist files in TSD manually. This becomes tedio...
about 3 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

PowerSC profile for HMC

PowerSC agent/profile for HMC to apply and monitor DOD compliance on our HMCs.
over 4 years ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

Allow setting default login policy for PowerSC MFA

Currently, when a user logs in, they must specify the login policy they wish to use (eg RADIUS), even if there is only a single policy defined. It would be preferable to allow a default profile and not require user input if there is only one policy.
about 2 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

TNC Policy Management - gui or command line

The TNC Policy Management of the Web gui does not reflect what is defined at the command line level. If you define a policy and click "Push" it will remove those existing command line defined policies. I'm recommending that the web gui and the con...
almost 3 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

PowerSC MFA high availability solution on Linux

PowerSC MFA 2.0 now supports Postgres replication for High Availability. I have suggested using PowerHA to manage an HA solution for AIX (ID# 154016), for the Linux MFA solution, pacemaker could provide similar functions - that is manage the avail...
over 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered