Firewall recommendations for AFM to cloud object storage

Consider these firewall recommendations for the AFM to cloud object storage setup.

To enable communication between a cloud object storage server and IBM Storage Scale AFM to cloud object storage, firewall must keep open a specific port or ports on all the gateway nodes. AFM to cloud object storage communicates to a cloud object storage server on a specified port such as 80 and 443. The specified port is provided as a part of an endpoint for a fileset. Different filesets can have a different port. For this communication, a specific port needs to be opened or enabled for the AFM to cloud object storage.