Network Management

Enable a secure connection to the Microsoft SQL Server using SSL

Helpful information about encrypted connection to SQL Server

First published date

6/17/2020 9:46 AM

Last published date

3/5/2025 12:26 AM

Overview

The SolarWinds Platform uses Microsoft SQL Server as a database backend, which allows the connection to it to be encrypted with SSL. You can configure the SolarWinds Platform to leverage this functionality by enabling encryption while configuring the system (steps described in Encrypt database connections with SSL).

Product section

Orion Platform

Resolution

Since this topic relates to a 3rd party product (Microsoft SQL Server) we do not provide direct steps on how to configure this feature. Please refer to the available documentation from the vendor or any other publicly available community resources. As an example you can review the following steps:

  1. Follow the steps in Encrypting Connections to SQL Server to set up the SSL connection on the SQL Server database.

    When the ForceEncryption option for the database engine is set to Yes, all client/server communication is encrypted. This option denies access to clients that cannot support encryption.

  2. Start the database server with SSL enabled.