controls::remote admin connections server configuration option is set to 0

Overview

The remote admin connections option controls whether a client application on a remote computer can use the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC).

The Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) lets an administrator access a running server to execute diagnostic functions or Transact-SQL statements, or to troubleshoot problems on the server, even when the server is locked or running in an abnormal state and not responding to a SQL Server Database Engine connection. In a cluster scenario, the administrator may not actually be logged on to the same node that is currently hosting the SQL Server instance and thus is considered “remote”. Therefore, this setting should usually be enabled (1) for SQL Server failover clusters; otherwise, it should be disabled (0) which is the default.

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Benchmarks

This control is used in the following benchmarks:

Skipping

To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with three ways:

1) Add mssql_secured::controls::remote_admin_connections_server_configuration_option_is_set_to_0: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL databases.
2) Add mssql_secured::controls::remote_admin_connections_server_configuration_option_is_set_to_0::dbname: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for specified database only.
3) Add an entry with the content remote_admin_connections_server_configuration_option_is_set_to_0 to the array value mssql_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
title The database to apply the control to.

title

The database to apply the control to.

All controls need an database to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:

mssql_secured::controls::control_name {'MSSQLSERVER':}

In this example, the string DB is the database to apply the control to.

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