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The license metric for Sterling Secure Proxy is Processor Value Units for non-containers & Virtual Processor Core for containers respectively. The license entitlement is directly tied to the deployment of Secure Proxy Engines in your environment. This means that, the allowed PVUs or VPCs for Secure Proxy is calculated based on where the Sterling Secure Proxy Engine is installed rather than Configuration Manager which is used to manage the application.

New Sterling Secure Proxy editions

Sterling Secure Proxy 6.2 introduces the following new editions:

• IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Inbound Edition: This edition provides reverse proxy functionality that is concurrent with Sterling Secure Proxy for routing and securing inbound traffic. For Sterling Connect: Direct users, the Inbound Edition also supports outbound file transfers using the Connect: Direct protocol via Secure Proxy. Current clients of Sterling Secure Proxy are not impacted by the renaming to Sterling Secure Proxy Inbound Edition.

• (New) IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Outbound Edition: This edition provides forward proxy functionality, supporting routing and securing outbound traffic. Only outbound file transfers using the SFTP protocol are supported. Current customers of Sterling Secure Proxy can purchase licenses of this edition to gain access to forward proxy functionality.

• (New) IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Premium Edition: This edition has all the features of Sterling Secure Proxy Inbound Edition and Sterling Secure Proxy Outbound Edition. Clients with entitlement to either the Inbound or Outbound edition can trade up to the Premium edition licenses and thereby obtain functionality that supports routing and securing of both inbound and outbound traffic.

IBM assumes customers will only install and use the products they purchased. IBM reserves the right to inspect installs for compliance at any time.

Note: For general information about IBM licensing requirements, see Software Licensing & Compliance.