HP Smart Update Manager 4.2 User Guide

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denying service to the application. The SOAP server is deployed on the remote target using the initial ports
described above (ports 138, 445, and 22) and then allocates another independent port as documented
below for its communications back to the workstation where HP Smart Update Manager is running. During
shutdown of HP Smart Update Manager, the SOAP server is shutdown and removed from the target server,
leaving the log files.
To deploy software to remote targets on their secure networks using HP Smart Update Manager, the
following ports are used.
For Windows®
Ports Description
Ports 445 and 137/138/139
(Port 137 is used only if you are
using NetBIOS naming service.)
These ports are needed to connect to the remote ADMIN$ share on
target servers. These are the standard ports Windows® servers use to
connect to remote file shares. If you can connect remotely to a remote
Windows® file share on the target server, then you have the right ports
open.
Ports 60000-60007
Random ports are used in this range to pass messages back and forth
between the local and remote systems via SSL. These ports are used on
the system running HP Smart Update Manager to send data to the target
server.
Several internal processes within HP Smart Update Manager
automatically use the port from 60000 when no other application uses it.
If there is a port conflict, the manager uses the next available one. There
is no guarantee that the upper limit is 60007 as it is dependent on how
many target devices are selected for installation.
Ports 61000-61007
These ports are used from the target server back to the system running HP
Smart Update Manager. The same mechanism is used by the remote
access code as the 60000 ports, with the first trial port as 61000. There
is no guarantee that the upper limit is 61007 when a conflict occurs. For
the case of ipv4-only and one NIC, the lowest available one is used by
HP Smart Update Manager to pass information between processes on
the local workstation where HP Smart Update Manager is executed, and
the next available one is used to receive messages from remote servers.
Port 62286
This port is the default for some internal communications. It is the listening
on the remote side if there is no conflict. If a conflict occurs, the next
available one is used.
Ports 80 or 63000-63005
The logs are passed to the target and the logs are retrieved via an
internal secure web server that uses port 80 if it is available or a random
port between 63000 and 63005, if it is not. This support allows updates
of the iLO firmware without the need to access the host server and allows
servers running VMware or other virtualization platforms to update their
iLO without the need to reboot their server or migrate their virtual
machines to other servers.
For Linux
Port Description
Port 22
This port is establishes a connection to the remote Linux server via SSH.