Testing Connectivity

[MikeL_4]

I had to have some ports opened through our firewall for CAUnicenter communications.

Is there a way to test this connectivity before I go through the trouble of installing the software and it not work ??

[Steven Schweda]

Connectivity between what and what? Which
ports?

If no one is listening at these ports
(because you haven't installed the software
yet), how would you test it even without a
firewall (between whatever and whatever
else)? Perhaps you could configure a Telnet
server on an alternate port (one you'd like
to test), and see if you can talk to that.
That would seem to require messing with
/etc/services ("man telnetd"). Perhaps sshd
(with its "-p port" option) would cause less
trouble (depending on which services you use
normally).