SQl Agents And Package Protection Levels
Feb 20, 2008
All:
I am aware that I am raising an issue/question that has quite a number of ancestors in this forum. In reviewing some of the threads I still believe my situation has a bit of a twist; but that could just be me.
The process I used until a change I made recently worked just fine. A handful of my packages connect to our ERP system that only supports an ODBC connection. I set the Protection Level to the default, and then deploy the packages to the server. I use an agent to run the jobs that include these packages as steps. I have hardcoded the userID and password in the SQL jobs and so they have run fine.
In an effort to reduce maintenance on the packages I decided to run the packages from the File System instead of deploying them to the server. Now, the packages are not running as I have not changes the Protection Level yet. I did test running one of the packages using a Proxy I have created but that does not work either.
Based upon what I have read it appears that the first thing I need to do is change the Protection Level to DoNotSaveSensitive. How do I then pass the ID and password to the agent?
a. Create a confirguation file?
b. Create a package template?
c. Both of the above
To reiterate I do not wish to deploy the packages to the server; I prefer to run the packages from the File System. Further, I just have one box on which everything happens; there are no migration issues across servers.
Some insights from this group will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
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Mar 11, 2008
Hello,
I have a package that contains a connection manager to a DB2 source. The password is configured within the connection mananger. The configuration string was included in the package configurations (SQL Server). The package is saved in VSS, and locally on my hard drive.
When a colleague attempts to open the package is Visual Studio (from VSS), He gets a message similar to the following.
Error 1 Error loading 'Geac_RK502.dtsx' : Failed to remove package protection with error 0x8009000B "Key not valid for use in specified state.". This occurs in the CPackage::LoadFromXML method. . C:Documents and SettingscdunnMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2005ProjectsGeac_RK502Geac_RK502Geac_RK502.dtsx 1 1
I'm very sure the package protection level was to encrypt sensitive data with user key. After he ran into this problem, I tried again to open the package from my computer (the machine that the package was created on) and now I get the same message. If I attempt to open the package anyway, I first get a message that there were errors in the package while it was being loaded, and that the package might be corrupt. After that message, I get one that states the document contains one or more extremely long lines of text....do you still want to open the file. If I click yes, the package opens read only with the following message:
Microsoft Visual Studio is unable to load this document. Failed to remove package protection with error 0x80090008. "Key not valid for use in specified state". This occurs iin the CPackage:LoadFromXML method.
I'm looking into more information about package protection. What can I do to avoid this problem, and what protection level should I be using so that my colleague can open the package? How can I correct the problem with this particular package, and have the package open?
Thank you for your help!
cdun2
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Feb 1, 2008
For those of you who have had a hard time like me trying to figure out using Protection level for an SSIS package whilst deploying the package via the SQL Server Agent, here is a piece of advice:
Firstly the protection level is set by Default to - "EncryptSensitivewithUserKey".
The encryption actually takes place only if you have things like - passwords etc..
From my experience - using both - "EncryptSensitivewithUserKey" and "EncryptSensitivewithPassword" Security features have turned out to be unreliable when deploying through SQL Server Agent (even while using a Proxy account having all previliges).
This is it seems because of issues with the user who created the package being different from the user who deployed the package. (which is really ridiculous).
So I used the ProtectionLevel - "DontSaveSensitive" - which means it is not going to encrypt anything in the package and so ur sensitive information would be blank. You would have to then supply your password etc using a configuration XML file. - using SSIS "Package configuation" in your menu....
This has been the most reliable way of solving the whole problem with encryption.
bear in mind that you might want to put the XML file in a secure location to which no one else has access to.
Thanks
Pramod
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Hi,
Can anyone explain to me why my ssis packages will not work when DontSaveSensitive protection level is selected? My package configurations are set as SQL server configuration type, and I have a table in a database that contains all the sensitive information (passwords and such). If I select "EncryptSensitiveWithUserKey" everything works, but I will be the only one able to execute the packages (not good, I need others to be able to execute them as well).
The error I'm getting tells me that the connection is not configured correctly or I may not have the right permissions on the connection.
My guess is that the DontSaveSensitive drops the passwords, but when I edit the data source and re-enter the password, it still does not work. Also, the database table I use that contains the sensitive data is not affected, all data remains.
What the fudge is going on here? I'm a newbie at this, can someone help me out?
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Now, I am trying to enforce one way scheduling on the publisher side which will start the snapshot agent for the corresponding publication on ShareDB after the distributor agent transfers the data from the snapshot folder to the subscribers. This approach is effective and more reliable in the sense that data synchronization will happen immediately after the distributor agent transfers the data to ShareDB.
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Hi all,
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Hello everyone,
Can someone recommend me the most efficient protection level for SSIS
packages for my environment? I've been doing some reading on this lately, but can't really decide which one to use. The Rely on server storage for encryption (ServerStorage) seems interesting, but I'm unsure if that would work on my environment (Windows Authentication).
Currently I'm saving my packages to my dev server under "Encrypt sensitive data with user key" Protection level, but seems like the passwords for the FTP Connection for instance doesn't get saved when I deploy my package to the server.
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This is what I found on MS's web site.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141747.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141053.aspx
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Hi all,
I have a problem while trying to deploy my packages that are configured in ProtectionLevel=EncryptSensitiveWithUserPassword
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Howdy!
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