IBM Performance Management

Configuring the firewall for incoming requests to the server

Before installing the Performance Management server, you might want to temporarily disable your firewall or configure ports for incoming and outgoing requests.

Before you begin

TCP connections are initiated from monitoring agents, API users, and Performance Management console users to the Performance Management server. The Performance Management server can also initiate TCP connections to other servers such as remote database servers. Thus, any firewall must allow the TCP connection to be initiated and a response to be provided.

Procedure

Take one of the following steps to either open ports or disable the firewall:

Set your firewall for incoming requests on ports that are used by the Performance Management server and for outgoing requests that are initiated by the Performance Management server. Ensure that the ports in Table 1 in Performance Management server ports are free (no application is listening on them).
Disable your firewall by running the following Red Hat Linux commands:
```
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off
```
For Red Hat Linux version 7.4, disable your firewall by running the following commands:
```
service firewalld stop
systemctl disable firewalld
```

What to do next

Install the Performance Management server and monitoring agents.