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title: "Sysadmin Settings - Interfaces"
slug: "fortanix-data-security-manager-sysadmin-settings-interfaces"
updated: 2026-04-01T07:26:12Z
published: 2026-03-18T07:47:20Z
canonical: "support.fortanix.com/fortanix-data-security-manager-sysadmin-settings-interfaces"
---

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# Sysadmin Settings - Interfaces

## 1.0 Introduction

This article describes the interface settings that are configured by the Fortanix-Data-Security-Manager (DSM) system administrator. The settings configured here apply to every object of the entire cluster.

## 2.0 Interfaces

When you set up a cluster, the interface on which the Fortanix DSM runs will be configured. The **Request** **client certificate** endpoint is used when an application needs to authenticate using a certificate. It is used for mutual TLS in certificate-based authentication. If you select the check box corresponding to**Request client certificate**, Fortanix DSM will request the client certificate on that interface.

By default, only one interface is enabled. If you are using multiple interfaces, you can change the default interface by selecting the corresponding radio button.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c3bd85d2-4ad8-4d85-9f60-f1c168a3aad9/Images/Documentation/interfaces-screen.png)

**Figure 1: Interfaces**

*Refer to*[*mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) using Fortanix DSM*](/v1/docs/mutual-transport-layer-security-using-fortanix-data-security-manager-on-prem-only)*for steps to perform****client certificate-based (mTLS) authentication for API requests.*

## 3.0 Redirect Feature

You can access the URL selected as default, as shown in the previous section. Enable the **REDIRECT** toggle for the Host URL(s) to always redirect to the default URL on the screen.

For example,

As shown in the following figure, the default Host URL is *sit.smartkey.io,* and the **REDIRECT** toggle is enabled for *api.sit.smartkey.io*. Therefore, whenever you access the latter URL, you will always be redirected to the former URL, which is set as the default.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c3bd85d2-4ad8-4d85-9f60-f1c168a3aad9/Images/Documentation/interfaces-edited-screen.png)

**Figure 2: Redirect feature**

Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) is the world’s first cloud service secured with Intel® SGX. With Fortanix DSM, you can securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as other secrets such as passwords, API keys, tokens, or any blob of data. Your business-critical applications and containers can integrate with Fortanix DSM using legacy cryptographic interfaces (PKCS#11, CNG, and JCE) or using the native Fortanix DSM RESTful interface.

## Related

- [Sysadmin Settings - Email](/fortanix-data-security-manager-sysadmin-settings-email.md)
- [Group Client Configurations](/fortanix-dsm-group-client-configurations.md)