Enabling Secure Sockets Layer for Monitoring Server
Updated: 2009-04-09
We recommend that you use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security for HTTP communication with Internet Information Services (IIS).
Each site hosted in IIS must have an SSL certificate installed to enable this security.
For more information about SSL and how to set up a certificate server or use an existing certificate server with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, see Configuring SSL on a Web Server or Web Site (IIS 6.0) (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100210&clcid=0x409).
Note
To help prevent denial of service attacks on PerformancePoint Server, use the maxRequestLength attribute in the <httpRuntime> element to specify a maximum file upload size that can help to prevent the servers from being maliciously overwhelmed. Additional ways to use IIS to avoid a denial of service attack include not changing the default value of 120 seconds for the time-out setting, and specifying a value of 10 for the MaxSesionPerUser setting. Microsoft SQL Server database software also has time-out settings that you can use. For more information, see your IIS documentation and SQL Server Books Online.
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