Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Getting Started (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Chapter 2, Using the VEA

Firewall Support

In VEA, the client connects to the server using a specific port number: 2148. In order to

connect to the server through a firewall, a port on the firewall is mapped to the 2148 port

of the VEA server.

When the client wishes to connect to the server through the firewall, it needs to specify the

host and port in the following format.

Firewallhost:port

where:

Firewallhost is the name or IP address of the firewall.

port is the port on the firewall that is internally mapped to the VEA server.

When the client connects to the server, the VEA client displays the host name (server

name) that it connected to, and not the firewall-port combination in the list of connected

hosts. The host name is also displayed in the history and favorites nodes. The firewall and

port information is stored in the user profile (wallet) and is used for subsequent

connections to the same server. The firewall-port combination is displayed only in the

connection dialog.

Example 1

If a.b.c.d is a firewall machine, then

Port 1234 on a.b.c.d = 2148 on veaserver1 and

Port 3456 on a.b.c.d = 2148 on veaserver2

... and so on

Now, if the client wishes to connect to veaserver1 then, it should specify the following in

the connection box:

a.b.c.d:1234.

This then connects to veaserver1 and displays veaserver1 in the connected hosts, history

and favorites databases. The firewall:port combination is stored in the wallet for

subsequent connection to the server if requested by the user.

Example 2

client ---> internet ----> firewall ----> server

and

client ----> firewall ----> server