4.1 Network Ports

The following ports must be bi-directional and left open for use by PlateSpin Recon:

Table 4-1 Required Port Access

Port

Protocol

Port Usage Description

Discovery

389

TCP

LDAP

3268

TCP

LDAP to Global Catalog

SNMP 161, 162

TCP/UDP

Standard SNMP

Inventory (Linux/VMware ESX 2.5 or earlier)

22

TCP

SSH Port used when adding supported Linux servers or VMware ESX Servers

Inventory (VMware Infrastructure 3.x)

22

TCP

SSH Port used

443

TCP

VMware Infrastructure Web Services port

Inventory (Windows Servers)

137

TCP/UDP

Netbios-ns

138

TCP/UDP

Netbios Datagram Service

135 (WMI inventory only)

TCP

For DCOM/RPC communication because PlateSpin Recon utilizes WMI when adding Windows-based servers

389 (Domain Inventory only)

TCP

LDAP

3268 (Domain Inventory only)

TCP

LDAP to Global Catalog

445

TCP/UDP

microsoft-ds

1024-5000 (WMI inventory only)

TCP

Dynamic RPC range for WMI

Inventory (NetWare)

524

TCP

Netware Inventorying

Monitoring

22

TCP

Unix and Citrix Xen Monitoring

137

UDP

Netbios-ns

138

TCP

Netbios Datagram Service

445

TCP

524

TCP

Netware Monitoring