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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 19, 2024

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Usage of certificate instead of userid/password for log data transfer

To improve the user management process on the Mainframe HMC we want to implement regular automated reviews of the users that do have access to the HMC including the user settings.
Instead of using the WebAPI we are planning to regularly send the report “Users” from Audit and Log Report via Scheduled Operation to an internal server to validate the data.
At the moment it seems that a technical userid and password are required to send the data via SFTP to the destination host.

Question:
Is it possible to use a certificate instead of username/password for authentication at the destination host? This would be very helpful since we do not want to use generic users on the HMC.
We have also disabled all the IBM standard user accounts like SERVICE, ACSADMIN, etc. and replaced them with personalized user accounts.

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  • Guest
    Jul 9, 2025

    Agree with above comment. We also would like to utilize this feature to setup automated HMC & SE backup to a SFTP server without having to provide and manage user credentials.

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  • Guest
    May 9, 2025

    In General, private key authentication for sftp connections should be possible. Also for actions like HMC Backups or export OSA Advanced Facility configuration, user/password authentication for sftp is the only possibility to authenticate against the sftp server. For us, only private key authentication is allowed. (unencrypted) FTP is also not permitted. The alternative is to still store backups on a USB drive.

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