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Port requirements

The following table lists the ports required for a basic 

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installation. Your firewall must allow communication through these ports for the associated components to function.

Note

All the ports specified in the following table are unidirectional and use TCP for communication. The communication flow is from source to destination.

Port requirements

Component

Source

Destination

Default port number

Authentication Server (uses the reports data warehouse database)

IBM Cognos Service

Authentication Server

9640

Primary reports server

User's browser

Reports server

  • 80 to communicate with Apache web server using http protocol 
  • 443 to communicate with Apache web server using ssl protocol
  • 9300 for use by Metadata Navigator

Database ports (reports data warehouse, portal content store, ETL master repository, ETL work repository, and BMC Server Automation database)

Reports server

Database

  • 1433 for use with Microsoft SQL Server
  • 1521 for use with Oracle

SMTP (to email scheduled reports and for notifications)

Reports server

Mail server

25

You can define different port numbers by using the Report Administration Utility. For information about the utility, see Working-with-the-Report-Administration-Utility.

Note

You cannot set the Metadata Navigator port by using the Report Administration Utility.

 

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