3.2 Ports used by Management and Security Server

Refer to this chart to identify the default ports and how to change them, if necessary.

Table 3-1 Default port numbers used by Management and Security Server

Port used for ...

Default port number

Comments

HTTPS - Administrative Console, Terminal ID Management, Metering, Metering Management

443

To change the port number:

  1. Start the MSS server.

    This action creates the default PropertyDS.xml file in the MSSData directory.

  2. Open PropertyDS.xml.

  3. In the string shown below, change the value from 443 to the preferred port number.

    <CORE_PROPERTY NAME="sslport"> <STRING>443</STRING>

  4. Restart Management and Security Server.

Security Proxy listening

3000

 

Security Proxy monitoring

8080

 

Cassandra TLS inter-node communication

7001

 

Cassandra JMX monitoring

7199

 

X.509 authentication to MSS via Centralized Management

8000

Used by Desktop products when Centralized Management is enabled and by Reflection for the Web/MSS applets for X.509 authentication by end users.

Tomcat AJP ports used for IIS Integration

8001, 8002

 

X.509 trusted subsystem (multiple servers)

8003

Used by MSS and HACloud to perform privileged administrative operations.

NOTE: The X.509 port 8000 and the trusted subsystem port 8003 behave similarly. Both require X.509 client authentication. However, they use different trust stores and the operations that can be executed via those ports differ.

Metering server

8089

 

Service registry

8761

 

Cassandra client port

9042

 

Cassandra sidecar

9043

 

Service wrapper monitoring

32000-32001

If 32000 is not available, then 32001 is attempted

MSS JMX monitoring

44000

 

Random port required by MSS JMX/RMI

Random

Random port required by Cassanda JMX RMI

Random