topic Re: Port number for VCR in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Port number for VCR

NJK-Work — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:00:02 GMT

Hi,

I apologize for being lazy, but does anyone off the top of thier head know the port(s) needed for a managed device to communicate with the Version Control Repository running on a HP SIM4.2 server? I have a few DMZ boxes that currently cannot connect due to firewall issues.

Thanks
Nelson

Re: Port number for VCR

Haridas — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:47:41 GMT

Port 2301 for NonSSL and port 2381 for SSL communication to VCRM.

Some more additional info, if you need.

If the system is not being managed from HP Systems Insight Manager, only ports 2301 and 2381 should be enabled to enable browser access to System Management Homepage

if the system is only a managed node and there is no HPSIM on it, then enable the following ports only.

HP SMH Web Server* 2301 HTTP
HP SMH Secure Web Server* 2381 HTTPS
WBEM/WMI Mapper 5988 HTTP
WBEM/WMI Mapper Secure Port 5989 HTTPS
SSH port 22 SSH
SNMP Agent 161 SNMP
Ping Discovery (ICMP)** *** ICMP
Ping Discovery (TCP)** 80 HTTP

for ICMP, Allow incoming echo request.

If the system has HPSIM and HPSMH, then enable the following ports.

HP SMH Web Server* 2301 HTTP
HP SMH Secure Web Server* 2381 HTTPS
WBEM/WMI Mapper 5988 HTTP
WBEM/WMI Mapper Secure Port 5989 HTTPS
SSH port 22 SSH
SNMP Agent 161 SNMP
Ping Discovery (ICMP)** *** ICMP
Ping Discovery (TCP)** 80 HTTP

SNMP Trap Listener 162 SNMP Trap (UDP)
HP Systems Insight Manager Web Server 280 HTTP
HP Systems Insight Manager Secure Web Server 50000 HTTPS
HP Systems Insight Manager SOAP 50001 HTTPS
HP Systems Insight Manager SOAP 50002 HTTPS
HP Systems Insight Managerl WBEM Event Receiver 50004 HTTPS/HTTP*

Re: Port number for VCR

NJK-Work — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:53:22 GMT

Thanks man!

Nelson

Re: Port number for VCR

NJK-Work — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:45:19 GMT

Oops - I think I already had those ports working.

What I need is the Version Control AGENT on the managed device to be able to communicate with the VCRM on the SIM 4.2 server.

I can connect to the web interface for it (using the ports you mentioned) but when I get there the agent reports that it cannot obtain information from the VCRM. So there must be another port is uses to communicate.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Nelson

Re: Port number for VCR

Keith Rogers — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:05:55 GMT

Is it just some systems? What is the specific error you see when trying to configure the VCAs?

This might be related:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=803661

Re: Port number for VCR

NJK-Work — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:59:32 GMT

Hi Keith,

Just two systems and both are behind a firewall. The error I get is:

Status cannot be calculated because a Version Control Repository Manager has not been named. Click on change agent settings to specify a Version Control Repository Manager.

When I go to configure the connection to the VCRM, it hangs for a while and then just tells me "The Version Control Repository Manager, at VCRMServer, could not be accessed using the specified account and password". This is the same account I use for 100 other servers, so it should normally work.

Also, I get "question marks" in the SW column for those servers in SIM Console.

I will check out the link you provided.

Thanks
Nelson

Re: Port number for VCR

Keith Rogers — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:14:08 GMT

Did the info in the other thread help? It sounds like you're seeing the same error.

Re: Port number for VCR

NJK-Work — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:15:03 GMT

The solution is to allow traffic across the firewall in BOTH directions. So I had our firewall folks allow 2381 both to and from the SIM server hosting the VCRM.