My DMS is configured with IP addresses for every agent in the cluster.
Since I now enabled HTTPS in maintenancesettings I would expect I need to configure the DMS to use hostnames, but the connection remains working as normal with IP addresses only.
Why is that? Is my DMS actually using HTTPS or do I need to enabled something else too?
EDIT: My bindings in IIS already had no mention of http anymore.
Hi Alexander,
Enabling HTTPS also requires changes in IIS. You can find more info on this docs page.
If you want to enforce HTTPS you should also remove the binding for HTTP in IIS manager. That way you will not be able to access it by using the IP address but only by the host name that is present on the certificate you have assigned to the HTTPS binding.
Yes, I forgot to mention it, but I did update my bindings in IIS to have https only.
Normally the browser should then give a warning that the connection is not secure. If not try to hard reload the page because it is probably cached.
When enforcing HTTPS it’s also useful to block/disable inbound tcp port 80 (or the HTTP port configured in IIS) in the firewall.