Firewall port summary

This section lists a summary of the port numbers that are used for various devices for communication purposes. Ports that you can customize according to your requirements are listed in bold and italics, for example, 1433 and 1521. For more information, see other references in the Security section.

The following table lists the address and ports that are used to update the BMC Discovery Outpost.

Port Number	Port assignment	Direction	Use	Reference
s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com:443	HTTPS	Outbound	Updating the BMC Discovery Outpost	Configuring-the-BMC-Discovery-Outpost

The following table lists the ports that might be used in scanning.

Port Number	Port assignment	Direction	Use	Reference
4	Closed Port	Outbound	Base Device Detection	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
21	FTP	Outbound	Base Device Detection
22	SSH	Outbound	UNIX Discovery
23	telnet	Outbound	UNIX Discovery
80	HTTP	Outbound	Base Device Detection
135	DCE RPC Endpoint Manager	Outbound	Windows Discovery
139	Netbios Session Service	Outbound	Windows Discovery
161	SNMP	Outbound	SNMP Discovery
443	HTTPS	Outbound	vCenter discovery BMC Discovery Outpost
445	Microsoft Directory Services SMB	Outbound	Windows Discovery
513	rlogin	Outbound	UNIX Discovery
902	vSphere API	Outbound	VMware ESX/ESXi Discovery	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
*1433*	MS SQL	Outbound	MS SQL Extended Discovery	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
*1521*	Oracle SQL	Outbound	Oracle SQL Extended Discovery	Network ports used for discovery communications
*3306*	MySQL SQL	Outbound	MySQL SQL Extended Discovery	Network ports used for discovery communications
*3940*	Discovery for z/OS Agent	Outbound	Mainframe Discovery	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
*4100*	Sybase SQL	Outbound	Sybase ASE SQL Extended Discovery	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
5985	HTTP	Outbound	PowerShell HTTP	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications
5986	HTTPS	Outbound	PowerShell HTTPS
5988	HTTP	Outbound	WBEM Discovery
5989	HTTPS	Outbound	WBEM Discovery
*49152-65535*	DCOM	Outbound	Windows Discovery	Network-ports-used-for-discovery-communications

Firewall port summary

BMC Helix Discovery (SaaS)

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