Installation

Google Search Appliance: Planning for Search Appliance Installation 15
Additional Ports Used When the Dedicated Administrative
Network Interface Card is Enabled
When the dedicated network interface card is enabled on a search appliance, the ports in the following
table are visible only on the dedicated interface card. All other port usage remains as detailed in the
section “Ports Used at All Times” on page 13.
What User Accounts Do I Need?
You need the following accounts to use with the search appliance:
• One or more administration accounts on the search appliance itself
The default administration account has the user name admin and the password that you assigned
during initial installation. You can create additional administration accounts after you install the
search appliance, with two different levels of user privileges. These accounts are administrator or
manager accounts. The administration account with the user name admin must be used to run the
network configuration wizard during the initial search appliance configuration process and to
connect to the Version Manager, which is used to update the search appliance software.
• User accounts required for access to content files that you want the search appliance to crawl
If the content files you want crawled and indexed are in a location that requires a login, create a
special user account on your network for the search appliance. When you configure crawl on the
Admin Console, provide the user name and password for that account. The search appliance will
present those credentials before crawling files in that location.
How are Administration Accounts Authenticated?
During search appliance installation, you choose among different means of authenticating
administration users.
Port Function Protocol When Open
161/162 Accepts SNMP requests, both TCP and
UDP
SNMP Always open
514 Sends SYSLOG requests, UDP SYSLOG
8000 Accepts requests for the Admin
Console, the search appliance’s
administrative interface
HTTP Always open
8443 Accepts requests for the Admin
Console, the search appliance’s
administrative interface
HTTPS Always open
9941 Accepts requests to the search
appliance’s Version Manager utility
HTTP Always open
9942 Accepts requests to the search
appliance’s Version Manager utility
HTTPS Always open