Setting security options for remote servers

The Remote Servers Properties | Options tab allows you to set options for your remote server. These options are parameters for the sp_serveroption stored procedure; see Reference Manual: Procedures for details on these parameters. Some sp_serveroption parameters, such as cis hafailover, are used with Component Integration Services; see the Component Integration Services Users Guide for more information.

You can set the following security options for a remote server:

Disconnect on timeout – if you want the remote server to drop the physical connection from your local server when there has been no activity for one minute
Encrypt network password – if you want the local server to encrypt its login passwords when it connects to the remote server. The local server use an encryption key provided by the remote server
Read-only status – Component Integration Services only. To ensure that the local server cannot write to the data on the remote server. Read-only status is enabled only if Component Integration Services is enabled.
RPC security model – if you want to control the level of security applied to the connections made between local and remote servers when a remote server executes an RPC

Specifying a security option

Select the remote server icon, then select File | Properties.
Select the Security tab.
Check the options you want to enable.