With the release of ISAM 9.0.2.1, it's now possible to access connection details from an appliances Server connection in a JavaScript mapping rule: This means you can now write more portable mapping rules, where the configuration details for an environment can be stored in appliance level configuration, rather than your mapping rules. Accessing the values... Continue Reading →
In a previous post, I shared a way to get headers in OTP mapping rules and in the AuthSvcCred Mapping rules. Since the infomap module is a little bit different, I have included an example of how you can do it there: Here is the output into my MACRO for easy debugging: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;... Continue Reading →
In ISAM 9.0.2, we released native appliance based capabilities to perform User Self Care Operations with ISAM. The user self care operations are built using the authentication service which means operations are modular, can easily be reordered or customised to suite your flow. Out of the box, there are three USC operations included: USC Account... Continue Reading →
The ISAM Reverse Proxy has a wealth of settings that can be configured. This means that almost every deployment situation can be catered for, but also means that its easy to overlook some settings that may give you grief. In this post, I've decided to capture some of the more important ones to help you... Continue Reading →
When using the REST API to run some commands against an ISAM for Web/Mobile Appliance, I ran into an HTTP error code that wasn't immediately obvious. Status Code: 405 Method Not Allowed There was no issue with the POST Method, but rather the headers that I sent. It's vitally important that you send the "Accept"... Continue Reading →
In ISAM v8.0.1.2, some fairly significant changes were introduced to the Management of the ISAM appliance networking interfaces. The update removed the concept of separate NICs for Application and Management interfaces and instead bound those concepts to an IP Address. It added support for VLAN tagging on packets, and provides a number of enhancements around... Continue Reading →
It can be a little confusing to get the MAC Address of the ISAM appliance network interfaces, which is particularly useful in virtualised environments. I've been in circumstances where you want to add/remove networking interfaces, but the order in which they are described in VMWare rarely corresponds to the order they are assigned when the... Continue Reading →
Philip Nye 