Allow CA CSM to Connect Through HTTPS in a Secured Environment

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Allow CA CSM to Connect Through HTTPS in a Secured Environment

In some strictly secured environments, only the selected applications are allowed to connect through HTTPS. These applications use predefined user-agent HTTP header.

By default, CA CSM has the HTTPS request header set to CA CSM. You can change it to the value that your network environment accepts to allow CA CSM to connect over HTTPS. For example, downloading product news, updating the complete product list, getting the latest maintenance, or using the CA RS maintenance wizard.

Metacharacters that are valid for USS may affect the way your customized header name is displayed. To interpret a metacharacter as a regular character, use a backslash.

If the length of your header name exceeds one line in your editor and needs to continue on the next line, precede the header name continuation with IJO=”${IJO}.

Examples:

To set your header name to CA USER, define the header name as CA\" \"USER:
```
IJO="$IJO -Dhttp.header.user.agent= CA\" \"USER"
```
To set your header name to $USER, define the header name as \$USER:
```
IJO="$IJO -Dhttp.header.user.agent= \$USER"
```

To set your header name to a string that is longer than the editor line:

IJO="$IJO -Dhttp.header.user.agent= The_customized_header_name_exceeds_one_line_and_conti"
IJO=”${IJO}nues_on_the_next_line”

Follow these steps:

Stop the CA CSM application server.
Include the following parameter in the RunTimeMVSHLQPrefix.SAMPLIB(MSMLIB) data set member, and set it to the value that your environment accepts:
```
IJO="$IJO -Dhttp.header.user.agent=your_header_name"
```
Start the CA CSM application server.
The changes take effect.