ITM Agent Insights: Explanation of ports used by the IBM Tivoli Common Reporting

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This blog provide and explanation of which ports are opened by the IBM® Tivoli® Common Reporting server, and which should be enabled on a firewall to get access to the Tivoli Common Reporting Web console.

Port configuration at the installation time
IBM Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) server requires a range of 14 port numbers, starting with the port number entered during an interactive installation wizard (GUI or console mode). The default port number which starts the sequence is 16310. However, the silent installation mode enables manual port assignment for each application server component. Therefore, the TCR server installed in a silent mode may not use 14 subsequent port numbers.

Web application ports
By default, the port 16310 listens for non-secure HTTP connections while the port 16316 for secure ones. Additionally, the default behavior is that if a user points the browser to the a non-secure (HTTP) connection on port 16310, for example:
   http://<hostname>:16310
the connection gets redirected to a secure one (HTTPS) which takes place on port 16316,  for example:
   https://<hostname>:16316/ibm/console
Hence, in a default scenario it is enough to have port 16316 opened on a firewall and use the secure connection URL.

List of ports used by IBM Tivoli Common Reporting
Property names in the list below are taken from the <install_dir>\properties\TIPPortDef.properties file used during the installation in the profile creation step.

Port Number Property

   Description

External ports
16310 WC_defaulthost
     HTTP - Default port for the IBM Tivoli Common Reporting web application

16316 WC_adminhost_secure
    HTTPS - Default secure port for the IBM Tivoli Common Reporting web application

Internal ports
16311 WC_defaulthost_secure

   HTTPS transport secure port

16312 BOOTSTRAP_ADDRESS

   Bootstrap/RMI port - used indirectly by trcmd script

16313 SOAP_CONNECTOR_ADDRESS
    SOAP connector port

16315 WC_adminhost
    Administrative console port

16318 DCS_UNICAST_ADDRESS
    High Availability Manager communication port

16320 ORB_LISTENER_ADDRESS
   Object Request Broker on Websphere listener port - used indirectly by trcmd script

16321 SAS_SSL_SERVERAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS
   Secure Authentication Service SSL server authentication port

16322 CSIV2_SSL_MUTUALAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS
   Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 client authentication listener port

16323 CSIV2_SSL_SERVERAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS
   Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 server authentication listener port - used indirectly by trcmd and stopTCRserver scripts to authenticate the user which is issuing the command

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