Tag: WebSEAL

Connecting to an ISAM physical appliance console

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Connecting to an ISAM physical appliance console

Most of my work with IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) has been with virtual appliances, but earlier this year I had the opportunity to set up an ISAM Version 8 hardware/physical appliance. So the question is: how do you connect to the console of a

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ISAM – ‘HTTP 400 – Bad Request – Invalid Hostname’ error when creating a junction

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ISAM – ‘HTTP 400 – Bad Request – Invalid Hostname’ error when creating a junction

I came across an interesting problem recently with an IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)/WebSEAL junction: whenever requests were sent to the back-end server (IIS) we received an ‘HTTP 400 – Bad Request – Invalid Hostname’ error.
Looking at the pdweb.debug log showed that the requests contained
host:

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Setting up Kerberos multi-domain SSO with IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)

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Setting up Kerberos multi-domain SSO with IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)

IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) supports Kerberos constrained delegation single sign-on (SSO) for users in multiple Windows domains – in other words, ISAM is able to talk to Active Directory to obtain a Kerberos credential on behalf of a user, which it then presents to

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How to avoid a “System failed to install the fix pack” error message with ISAM

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How to avoid a “System failed to install the fix pack” error message with ISAM

I’m hoping to include various snippets of technical information that will be of use to people, either related to my work (as a Security Specialist with IBM) or else related to my hobby projects (such as MythTV). So here goes with a fairly trivial point, but

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