binding SQL server to localhost?

Greetings all,
I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
configuration?
Thanks,
BrianYou propably need to firewall the server then.
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
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> Greetings all,
> I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
> apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
> list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
> accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
> running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
> it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
> SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
> it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
> knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
> this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
> configuration?
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

binding SQL server to localhost?

Greetings all,
I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
configuration?
Thanks,
Brian
You propably need to firewall the server then.
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
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> Greetings all,
> I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
> apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
> list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
> accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
> running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
> it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
> SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
> it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
> knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
> this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
> configuration?
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

binding SQL server to localhost?

Greetings all,
I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
configuration?
Thanks,
BrianYou propably need to firewall the server then.
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
--
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
<tinbox@.nyct.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Greetings all,
> I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
> apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
> list. I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
> accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
> running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
> it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
> SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
> it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
> knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
> this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
> configuration?
> Thanks,
> Brian
>sql

binding SQL server to localhost?

Greetings all,

I am a network security professional rather than a MS SQL admin, so I
apologize in advance if this is a bit of a basic question for this
list. I also cross-posted this to microsoft.public.sqlserver.server,
so sorry if anyone's read it already.

I know an admin setting up a SQL server that will only be
accesible by a webserver running on the same host (not happy about
running private vs publicly avaialable services on the same host , but
it's what we've got). As such, I'd like to recommend to him that the
SQL server only listen on the localhost ip, 127.0.0.1, thereby making
it inaccesible to the outside world. I looked around the MS
knowledgebase but couldn't find a clear document stating how to do
this. Is it even possible? Is there a better option for this
configuration?

It's been suggested that firewalling is the only option, but I'd really
like to do *both* (firewall & bind to localhost). The firewall in this
case will have to be host-based instead (software) instead of hardware
for non-technical reasons, so additionally if anyone recommends a
software firewall they use for this purpose I'd appreciate it. My firs
impulse is to recommend Tiny, but I've never used a software firewall
for an MS SQL/Web server before.

Thanks,
BrianOne option is to disable network access completely, and use only shared
memory for access to MSSQL (this is how MSDE operates by default since
SP3), so only applications running on the same machine will be able to
access it. Although someone could still attack MSSQL by compromising
the web server, or using SQL injection.

MSSQL itself doesn't provide any way to accept connections from
specified hosts - you would normally use the operating system's IP
filtering functions to do that.

Simon|||There isn't a way to have sql server listen on a specific ip. Sorry.

If you haven't already seen this, take a look at the Network
Configuration dialog on the general tab of the server's properties.
Two protocols are enabled by default. TCPIP is one of them, and you
can change the port and set it to ignore discovery broadcasts. That
would make the server invisible to anyone looking for it. However,
anyone who portscans the server would notice whatever port you put it
on and (I'd assume) be able to figure out that it's a SQL Server. So,
you do still need to firewall it.

The other protocol is called Named Pipes. That's basically using
memory to communicate. If the application you're developing supports
it, I'd suggest using this and turning off TCPIP support altogether.
This is probably faster anyway.

Chris

BI tools from MS?

sorry for the basic questoin yet again but I'm new to this...

Could you please tell me what are the end user BI tools from MS that could be used to browse SSAS cube? That understand metadata etc?

Like the browser that is build in the SQL Management studio is great - I though that OWC control would provide similar inteface but instead it looks just like Pivot Table - it doesn't seem to understand metadata & so doesn't apply proper formatting to mesures, nor allows to browse the cube the way I want (group measures, dimension members etc)

Thanks!

Excel 2007 have full support for all features in SSAS2005.

ProClarity Analytics 6.3 (Current relase is 6.2) includes a windows client(Professional), a web client(Analytics Server) and a Dashboard. Microsoft bought ProClarity last year in may.

This year MS will release a new product for financial planning, Dashboard/Balance Scorecard and Analytics called Performance point. It is planned to be released the second half of this year.

HTH

Thomas Ivarsson

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cool - thanks for your help. unfortunately these tools aren't readily available...

so just the last question (and also to clarify my original question) - SQL Server Management studio does use OWC 1.1 for the cube browser, but it also uses WindowsForms10.SysTreeView32 control for the browser on the left hand side that does display metadata, groups properly etc.

Is it just a regular tree view control & MS has written custom logic to populate it based on the cube's metadata or that countrol could be somehow exposed & reused easily?

how do I even read that info from SSAS cube?

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Hello. I am not a .Net specialist so my answere is very general.

I think that you use the new object model AMO to retrieve meta data information from SSAS2005. If you install the samples that is an optional part of the SQL Server 2005 installation you will get different code samples and projects.

Books On Line also have information for developers. There is a new CTP 3 SP2 version at www.microsoft.com/sql

Excel 2003 also support SSAS2005 but you will have to install OLEDB for OLAP version 9. You can download it with an add-in for Excel 2003 here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAE82128-9F21-475D-88A4-4B6E6C069FF0&displaylang=en

Edit: This add-in will show the SSAS2005 metadata.

Kind regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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unfortunately these tools aren't readily available

Excel 2007 is available for couple of months already...

|||Great info - thanks!