Lately we have been asked how can SDC help to restrict the installation of M2Eclipse connectors from internet.
There are two workarounds to solve this:
1. Use a software policy to restrict the software that your end user can update from your admin console. Just go to the section “Policies”, “Security Policies”, “End-users”. The option “Allow users to install from update sites” allow you control the updates, you can turn off the option and don’t allow any update or set a list of update sites.
2. You can change the Catalog URL of Discovery, you do it in the section “Policies”, “Environmental Policies”, “VM Arguments”. With the argument
-Dm2e.discovery.url=${YOUR_CUSTOM_M2ECLIPSE_CATLOG_CONNECTOR_URL}