4.2 Ports Used

Note that Novell Sentinel Log Manager appliance uses the following ports for communication, and some of them are opened on the firewall:

4.2.1 Ports Opened in the Firewall

Table 4-1 Network Ports Used by Sentinel Log Manager

Ports

Description

TCP 1289

Used for Novell Audit connections.

TCP 289

Forwarded to 1289 for Novell Audit connections.

TCP 22

Used for secure shell access to the Sentinel Log Manager appliance.

UDP 1514

Used for syslog messages.

UDP 514

Forwarded to 1514 for syslog messages.

TCP 8080

Used for HTTP communication.

TCP 80

Forwarded to 8080 for the Sentinel Log Manager Web Server for HTTP communication.

TCP 8443

Used for HTTPS communication.

TCP 1443

Used for SSL encrypted syslog messages.

TCP 443

Forwarded to 8443 for the Sentinel Log Manager Web server for HTTPS communication. Also used by the Sentinel Log Manager Appliance for the update service.

TCP 61616

Used for communication between Collector Managers and the server.

TCP 10013

Used by the Event Source Management user interface SSL Proxy.

TCP 54984

Used by the Sentinel Log Manager appliance Management Console (WebYaST).

TCP 1468

Used for syslog messages.

4.2.2 Ports Used Locally

Table 4-2 Ports Used for Communication Locally

Ports

Description

TCP 61617

Used for internal communication between the Web server and the server.

TCP 5556

Used on the loop back interface for internal communication, with the internal_gateway_server and internal_gateway. It is used for communication between the agent engine and the Collector Manager.

TCP 5432

Used for the PostgreSQL database. You do not need to open this port by default. However, if you are developing reports by using the Sentinel SDK, then you must open this port. For more information, see Sentinel Plug-in SDK Web site.

Two additional randomly selected TCP ports

Used for internal communication between the agent engine and the Collector Manager.

TCP 8005

Used for internal communication with Tomcat processes.

TCP 32000

Used for internal communication between the agent engine and the Collector Manager.