Required services, ports, and processes

This topic provides a list of the required services, ports, and processes.

Note: The IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager processes run under a non-administrator or non-root user account even when you install the product under an administrator or root user account.

Ensure that clients or devices that use IPP to communicate with the IBM® Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager server use the same IPP port number (Default: 1441) that is configured on the server.

Ports

The following ports must be open for communication and not used by any other processes. These ports are same for Windows and Linux®.
Description Port Number
FCM (Fast Communication Manager) port.

You cannot configure this port. Its value is fixed. IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager requires this port for Db2 installation.

 60071
Default HTTPS port to access IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager graphical user interface and REST services.

You can configure this port at the time of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager installation.

 9443
Default port for Db2.

You can configure this port at the time of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager installation. This value might be another port number, depending on the installation settings. There are other ports, which are associated with the default port number.

 50120
Default installation time TLS port that listens for KMIP messages. 5696
TLS port for device messages. 1441
TCP port for device messages. 3801
User configured replication ports in the replication configuration file for master and clone servers. Master 1111

Clone 2222
Default port for IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager agent. 60015

Windows

Services
Component Service Name
WebSphere Application Server Liberty GKLM50Server
Db2 DB2GKLMV50 - klmdb50
Note: The processes run under the Db2 Administrator user account. User credentials for this account are specified during installation. For more information, see Db2 configuration during installation.
Processes

To view the processes running on your system, open Task Manager. On the Task Manager window, click More details. In the Processes tab, see the Background processes section.

Name Process
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager javaw.exe
Db2 The main Db2 processes are db2fmp64.exe and db2syscs.exe.
Other processes:
  • db2govds.exe
  • db2licd.exe
  • db2mgmtsvc.exe
  • db2rcmd.exe
  • db2systray.exe

Linux

Processes

To list the process running on your system, you can use the ps command. Ensure that you have the appropriate permissions to view the processes.

Component Process
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager java
Db2 The main Db2 processes are db2fmp and db2sysc.
Other processes:
  • db2wdog
  • db2chkpwd
  • db2vend
  • db2acd
Table 1. Topic change log
Date Change description
01 Feb 2022 Kept only one ports table because it is common for Linux and Windows. Added instructions to view the list of running processes.
31 Jan 2022 Updated the processes for IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager and Db2
8 Dec 2020 Initial version.