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Symphony client to vemkd kerberos implementation - Morgan Stanley

In MorganStanley, it is not allowed to have a cluster-wide principal kept in keytabs for a service.Based on the following documents: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSMK_7.1.1/management_sym/enablingkerberosauthentication.html http...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

Support Embeded Java 1.8 and Tomcat 8 for Symphony 7.1 FP1

Wellsfago security compliance requires all middleware to be upgraded to Java 1.8 and Tomcat 8. IBM Symphony is a key product and need to be addressed urgently.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Cloud Proxy - Symphony HTTP SYMREST service

SocGen has 24 on-premise Symphony clusters and is deploying Symphony application clients on public cloud (AWS). To prevent from any intrusion risk, SG CISO expects to have an HTTP proxy between the cloud and the clusters to enable deep flow inspec...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 7 Delivered

[Supported] Mixed RedHat 6 and 7 among management hosts

Please certify mixed RedHat 6 and RedHat 7 in the same management hosts group. E.g. can I have RH6 as masters, RH6/7 mixed in SSM nodes.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

client automatic connection retry logic

Client automatic connection retry logic between client and SD for cases where SD reset the connection.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

Tomcat version 6.0.43 bundled in Symphony 7.0 needs update to 6.0.44 to comply with bank compliance/audit. - Wells Fargo

Our Symphony 7.1 install incudes the Tomcat version 6.0.43 installed and running. Internal bank audit/controls requires us to upgrade any Tomcat versiosn to 6.0.44 or file an exception as to why we cannot get into compliance. Please let me know wh...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

R 3.1.1 & 3.2.2 Support on Symphony 6.1 & 7.1 & LSF 9.1

OS: Linux SUSE 11 SP2/3
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Platform Conductor support for Ubuntu 16.04 on x64 and ppc64le

Need support for Ubuntu 15.10 (vivid) on ppc64le POWER. Ubuntu 15.10 supports docker natively on POWER. We need to use Symphony with Docker for managing a cloud data service on POWER
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[CE] Platform Symphony support for DB2 as metadata store

As of today only Derby (non-production) and Oracle RDBMS are supported for all data for reports. There's only partial support for DB2 and MySQL.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[Security and Access Control][CE] [Security] - Symphony should immediately reflect changes in Active Directory

The current Active Directory behavior in Symphony 7.1 is flawed. Feedback from support is that the expected practice is after a new user or group is added to AD or an existing user is added to an existing group that the cluster should be restarted...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered