Guardium port requirements

Each Guardium system must have ports available for several types of communication. This table lists these connections and the default port numbers that are assigned to them.

Default Ports Used for Guardium Application Access

Port Protocol Purpose
8443 TCP Web browser access (https) to the Guardium user interface. Note: This port can be changed by the Guardium administrator.
22 TCP SSH access from clients to manage the Guardium appliance
80   HTTP traffic
443   HTTPS traffic

Default ports used for other features

Port Protocol Purpose
20, 21 TCP FTP Server for backups/archiving (optional)
22 TCP SCP for backups/archiving, patch distributions, and file-transfers
25 TCP SMTP (email server) for alerts and other notification
53 TCP DNS Servers
123 TCP, UDP NTP (Time Server) for time synchronization
161 TCP, UDP SNMP Polling (optional)
162 TCP, UDP SNMP Traps (optional)
389 TCP LDAP, for example, Active Directory or Sun One Directory
514 TCP Syslog Server (optional)
636 TCP LDAP, for example, Active Directory or Sun One Directory over SSL (optional)
1500 TCP Tivoli Storage Manager backup hosts (optional)
3218 TCP, UDP EMC Centera backup hosts (optional)