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Port Protocol Name Purpose
514 UDP syslog Receiving logs forwarded from Storage Center SANs
3033 TCP Web Server Port
Receiving:
● Communication from all clients, including the Dell Storage
Manager Client and Dell Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
● Alerts from FluidFS clusters
● Alerts from Fluid Cache clusters
3034 TCP Web Server Port Receiving vCenter/ESXi communication for VASA and VVol
provisioning and administration
8080 TCP Legacy Web Services
Port
Receiving:
● Storage Manager Server Agent communication
● Alerts forwarded from Storage Center SANs
7342 TCP Legacy Client Listener
Port
● Communicating with the remote Data Collector
● Providing automatic update functionality for previous versions of
the Dell Storage Manager Client
5989 TCP SMI-S over HTTPS Receiving encrypted SMI-S communication
Outbound Data Collector Ports
The Data Collector initiates connections to the following ports.
Port
Protocol Name Purpose
25 TCP SMTP Sending email notifications
443 TCP SSL
● Communicating with managed Storage Center SANs
● Sending diagnostic data with Dell SupportAssist
514 UDP syslog Forwarding Storage Center logs to syslog servers
1199 TCP SIMS RMI Communicating with managed PS Series groups
1433 TCP Microsoft SQL Server Connecting to an external Microsoft SQL Server database
3033 TCP SSL Communicating with managed Storage Center SANs
3306 TCP MySQL Connecting to an external MySQL database
8080 TCP VMware SDK Communicating with VMware servers
27355 TCP Server Agent Socket
Listening Port
Storage Manager Server Agent communication
35451 TCP FluidFS Communicating with managed FluidFS clusters
44421 TCP FluidFS diagnostics Retrieving diagnostics from managed FluidFS clusters
Dell Storage Manager Client Ports
The following table lists the ports used by the Dell Storage Manager Client.
Inbound Dell Storage Manager Client Port
The Dell Storage Manager Client does not use any inbound ports.
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Introduction to Storage Manager