Configure IP Address Checking (Netmap Check)

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About this task

Once netmap checking is enabled in your Connect:Direct® Proxy configuration, you can add additional IP addresses to your Connect:Direct netmap for IP address checking. For each PNODE definition in the netmap, you can identify up to 50 additional IP addresses to use for IP address checking.

Two types of additional IP addresses are available for IP address checking:

  • Secure Proxy can use up to three alternate outbound nodes in your netmap for IP address checking. The alternate outbound nodes can be used for inbound IP address checking and outbound failover node addresses. To configure alternate outbound nodes, refer to Define Alternate Nodes for Failover Support.
  • If you need more than three additional addresses for IP Address Checking, configure IP check addresses in the Connect:Direct netmap. Secure Proxy uses these IP check addresses for inbound IP address checking only. They cannot be used for outbound failover support.

To configure IP check addresses:

Procedure

  1. From IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, select Configuration > Netmap from the left hand-side navigation panel.
  2. Click View all Netmaps to display the list of created adapters.
  3. Select the Connect:Direct node that you want to add IP addresses to and click Edit icon.
  4. Click the IP Checks tab.
  5. If there are existing IP addresses in the Additional IP Checks table, click New to add a new blank record to the table.
  6. Type the additional IP address in the table. To add another IP address, click New.
    Note: Before you navigate to another page in the Additional IP Checks table, click OK to save your last IP address entry.
  7. Click Save.