It is possible to configure IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) including its Advanced Access Control (AAC) module to support step-up authentication using One Time Passwords (OTPs) sent by SMS to a mobile phone (cell phone) using an SMS gateway. Here is an outline guide to the

I recently learned something about SSL junctions and ‘mutual authentication’ so I thought that it would be worth writing about it.
1. Starting with the basics, in order to set up any SSL junction, the certificate of the Certification Authority that has signed the server certificate for

I was recently setting up ISAM E-community single signon (ECSSO) and wanted to set ‘e-community-sso-auth = http’ in the reverse proxy configuration file – but after that, when I tried to restart the reverse proxy it crashed repeatedly with the following messages in the webseal

This is my latest MythTV challenge – which I’m still struggling with. When I connect my Ubuntu 16.04 MythTV system to a TV via a Marantz receiver, intermittently it looks like this:

 
If anyone has any ideas as to what might be causing

My Mythbuntu system recently failed to boot up, and instead displayed this error message:
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
– Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
–

I recently installed MythTV using the Mythbuntu 16.04 distribution. All went well until I tried to use MythWeb, where the web browser displayed this error:
datetime: 2016-07-18 21:20:19 (BST)
errornum: 256
error type:

In my first posting in October 2015 I wrote about how when setting up IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) you need to use Manage System Settings -> Updates and Licensing: Available Updates to install .pkg files, and you need to use Manage System Settings -> Updates and Licensing: Fix

Occasionally I have a problem where the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) appliance gets into a funny state, so that when I point a browser at the Local Management Interface (LMI – the appliance web GUI) I get this error message:
Error 404: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: SRVE0190E: File not

On my ISAM 9.0.0.1 system I recently had a problem trying to edit the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Reverse Proxy (WebSEAL) configuration file – after clicking ‘Save’ I got the following error message:
System Error
2016-05-19-03:47:36.718+01:00I—– 0x35E5102B WebSEAL-Mgmt-API FATAL pdz general ZProperties.cpp 687 0x7fd04f445820
HPDPZ0043E

(This is an update to my posting from January 31, 2016.)
I recently got a Marantz AV receiver, but I had an annoying problem connecting my MythTV system to the television through it: things are fine if, when I boot up the MythTV system, the TV is