SIM 5.0 port 80 conflict. Can it be changed?

[Jason G Boche]

We have SIM 5.0 running on a piece of hardware. We call it our "utility server".

We would like to install an application on the utility server that requires the use of port 80, and it is not willing to share port 80 with any other application.

We don't use port 80 when we access the SIM web interface. We use https://servername:50000

Can port 80 be changed or disabled safely without disrupting SIM? If so, where is that change made on the SIM server?

Thank you in advance.

Jas

[Hemantha Kumara]

Hi Jas,
SIM won't use Port 80, by default SIM use 280 port as unsecured and redirect it to 50000 port.
If you disable port 80, I think it won't be any problem for SIM.
but if you disable port 80 and ICMP in your network, then the discovery and Identification might be a problem.

[Jason G Boche]

Hi, thank you for the response.

The way I tested to see if port 80 was in use on the SIM server was I opened a web browser and went to the url http://simservername

It immediately redirected me to https://simservername:50000

I also ran a netstat command on the SIM server which showed that http port 80 was listening. Edited results are as follows:

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP simservername:http simservername.ad.domain.fqdn:0 LISTENING 2576
[storApplicationServer.exe]

TCP simservername:sunrpc simservername.ad.domain.fqdn:0 LISTENING 2032
[portmap.exe]

TCP simservername:epmap simservername.ad.domain.fqdn:0 LISTENING 1744
RpcSs
[svchost.exe]

TCP simservername:280 simservername.ad.domain.fqdn:0 LISTENING 688
[mxdomainmgr.exe]

TCP simservername:https simservername.ad.domain.fqdn:0 LISTENING 2576
[storApplicationServer.exe]

[Jason G Boche]

It looks like SIM is not the culprit, but Storage Essentials is what is listening on port 80 and redirecting to SIM on port 50000.