controls::sql server is configured to use non standard ports

Overview

If installed, a default SQL Server instance will be assigned a default port of TCP:1433 for TCP/IP communication. Administrators can also manually configure named instances to use TCP:1433 for communication. TCP:1433 is a widely known SQL Server port and this port assignment should be changed. In a multi-instance scenario, each instance must be assigned its own dedicated TCP/IP port.

Using a non-default port helps protect the database from attacks directed to the default port.

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

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
port This is the Integer containing Tcp port used by SQL Server.
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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port

This is the Integer containing Tcp port used by SQL Server. If Undef value is passed, TcpDynamicPort setting is set to true. Type: Optional[Integer]

Default:mssql_secured::lookup_setting('port', undef)

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