After having installed
Silk Central, you should consider the following guidelines to set up
Silk Central in a secure environment.
- First of all, change the default password of the
sysadmin user. For detailed information, see
System Administrator.
- Configure LDAP authentication to enable
Silk Central logins through an LDAP server. For detailed information, see
LDAP Authentication.
- If multiple groups will be working with
Silk Central, ensure that your users can only access the data they are supposed to see by creating instances or clients. For detailed
information, see
Managing Instances and
Managing Clients.
- To ensure that running reports with advanced queries will not change any data in the database, consider creating and using
a read-only database user. For detailed information, see
Database Page.
- Configure your firewall so that only the ports that are required by
Silk Central are open. For detailed information on which ports
Silk Central uses, see
Silk Central Architecture.
- Backup your database regularly.
- Use the most current and supported operating system versions and ensure that updates are being applied regularly.
- Use the latest versions and hotfixes of
Silk Central. Register to
Micro Focus Customer Support at
http://supportline.microfocus.com for up-to-date support news and access to other support information.