Table Of Contents
Installation Pre-requisites
Hardware and Software Requirements
Cisco ANA Gateway
Cisco ANA Unit
Cisco ANA Client
Communications in Cisco ANA
Cisco ANA Server Ports
Installation DVD
Solaris Services and Components Used by Cisco ANA
Product Services Installed with Cisco ANA
Installation Pre-requisites
This chapter describes the pre-requisites for installing Cisco ANA 3.6 Service Pack 2.
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Hardware and Software Requirements
•Communications in Cisco ANA
•Installation DVD
•Solaris Services and Components Used by Cisco ANA
•Product Services Installed with Cisco ANA
Note Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8, or Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3, with the partitioning option must be installed before starting the Cisco ANA installation, according to the standard software installation flow. For Oracle requirements and instructions on installing Oracle 9i or Oracle 10g for use with Cisco ANA 3.6 installation with Service Packs 1 and 2, please refer to Chapter 4, "Oracle Server Installation".
Hardware and Software Requirements
This section details the hardware and software requirements for:
•Cisco ANA Gateway
•Cisco ANA Unit
•Cisco ANA Client
Note The hardware recommendations are provided under the assumption and recommendation that Cisco ANA 3.6 Service Pack 2 will not share the hardware with additional applications.
Cisco ANA Gateway
The software installation and hardware requirements are as follows:
Item
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Specifications
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Hardware Requirements
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Option 1: Sun server based on Sun UltraSPARC IV+
Recommended: Sun Fire V490
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Minimum Requirements
•4 x at least 1.35-GHz UltraSPARC® IV+ Processors
•Solaris 10 compatible
•Minimum of 16 GB RAM
•Swap file must be at least twice the size of the installed RAM.
•2 x 73 GB HDD space
Note For information on how disk space is configured on the gateway, see Recommended Disks' Structure, page 4-13.
•1 x DVD drive
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Option 2: Sun server based on Sun UltraSPARC T1
Recommended: Sun Fire T2000
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•1* 8 core, at least 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 Processor
•Solaris 10 compatible
•Minimum of 16 GB RAM
•Swap file must be at least twice the size of the installed RAM.
•2 x 73 GB HDD space
Note For information on how disk space is configured on the gateway, see Recommended Disks' Structure, page 4-13.
•1 x DVD drive
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Software Requirements
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Operating System
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•Solaris™ 10 (English language)
•Solaris 10 patch cluster release as published by Sun on 18 January 2008 or later.
•J2SE Solaris 10 patch cluster release as published by Sun on 18 January 2008 or later.
Note For the exact patch lists see the Cisco ANA Release Notes, Version 3.6.
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Database
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•Customer supplied and installed Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8 with partitioning option.
-OR-
•Customer supplied and installed Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3 with partitioning option.
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Note•ANA servers must not be used by any application other than Cisco ANA.
•The server architecture mentioned above cannot be partitioned or virtually split.
Cisco ANA Unit
The software installation and hardware requirements are as follows:
Item
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Specifications
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Hardware Requirements
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Option 1: Sun server based on Sun UltraSPARC IV+
Recommended: Sun Fire V490
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Minimum Requirements
•4 x at least 1.35-GHz UltraSPARC IV+ Processors
•Solaris 10 compatible
•Maximum of 32 GB RAM1
•2 x 73 GB HDD space
•1 x DVD drive
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Option 2: Sun server based on Sun UltraSPARC T1
Recommended: Sun Fire T2000
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•1* 8 core, at least 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 Processor
•Solaris 10 compatible
•Maximum of 32 GB RAM1
•2 x 73 GB HDD space
•1 x DVD drive
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Software Requirements
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Operating System
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•Solaris™ 10 (English language)
•Solaris 10 patch cluster release as published by Sun on 18 January 2008 or later.
•J2SE Solaris 10 patch cluster release as published by Sun on 18 January 2008 or later.
Note For the exact patch list see the Cisco ANA Release Notes, Version 3.6.
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Note ANA servers must not be used by any application other than Cisco ANA.
Cisco ANA Client
The minimum hardware and software installation requirements are as follows:
Item
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Specifications
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Hardware Requirements
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IBM or PC compatible work station
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•Pentium IV, 2.66 GHz Processor or better
•1 GB RAM
•2 GB of free disk space
•DVD Drive
•512 MB of free non-virtual memory
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Screen
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•Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
•True Color (32 bit) setting
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Software Requirements
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Operating System
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•Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP
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Internet Connection
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•A fast internet connection with a minimum bandwidth of 1.5 MB.
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Note The minimum client configuration is 1GB. When several memory intensive applications are running at the same time, the user may experience sluggishness in the user interface response time and a slow refresh rate. If the user encounters latency problems, the user must close the other applications running on the desktop.
When planning available memory space the user should consider that the application does not work well with paging. When paging is used, this leads to degradation in the application's performance.
Cisco ANA NetworkVision with a configuration 512MB of free-non virtual memory per running instance supports across all of the maps that are open, a maximum of 10K objects (devices, VPNs, VRFs and sites), 12K links, and 5K tickets (if the same tickets are displayed in different maps, each ticket will be counted separately).
One map in Cisco ANA NetworkVision, supports a maximum of 5K objects, 6K links and 5K tickets.
The other Cisco ANA applications require 256MB of free non-virtual memory.
Note It is possible to reconfigure Cisco ANA NetworkVision to use only 256 MB, however this may result in reduced functionality. To modify the memory parameters, right click on the Cisco ANA NetworkVision short cut properties. In the "Target" text box, remove the texts -vmargs -Xmx512m, and relaunch the application.
Note The maximum number of maps that can be opened for Cisco ANA NetworkVision is five (default), regardless of the number of devices, links and tickets, but this number is configurable assuming that the overall number of links and devices per application do not exceed the maximum limits. For information about customizing the maximum number of maps, contact the Cisco Project Manager or Cisco Account Team.
Communications in Cisco ANA
The Cisco ANA Platform requires connectivity to all of its tiers as follows:
•Gateway and Units—The units servers have out band management; therefore the gateway server needs to have connectivity to all of the unit servers.
•Gateway and Clients—The clients communicate with the gateway only; therefore IP connectivity between the clients and the gateway is required.
The clients support automatic client updates from the gateway and depending on the upgrade the data may be up to 30 MB.
Note You can disable the automatic client update, see Disabling the Automatic Client Update, page 8-4 for details.
•Units and Network Elements—The unit hosts the VNEs, which require connectivity to the network elements (SNMP, Telnet).
Note For further information regarding the ports used, refer to the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator Guide.
Cisco ANA Server Ports
The Cisco ANA Server uses the following ports:
Scope
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Protocol
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Port
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Cisco ANA Gateway Northbound
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Cisco ANA NetworkVision
Note This point to point (PTP) connection is secured by SSL.
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TCP
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9771
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Cisco ANA NetworkVision - Webstart Edition
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TCP
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1310
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Web Monitoring System
Note This port is secured by SSL and authenticated using the username and password created during the installation process.
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HTTP
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1311
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Cisco ANA EventVision (used by Oracle)
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TCP
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1521
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SSH (for Cisco ANA Shell)
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TCP
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22
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Telnet (for Cisco ANA Shell)
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TCP
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23
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BQL
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TCP
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9002
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Secured remote BQL connections
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TCP
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9003
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Registry Editor (for incoming traffic)
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TCP
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8011
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Registry Editor (for outgoing traffic)
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TCP
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8099
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Cisco ANA Gateway Southbound and Intra-Unit Communication
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Transport
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TCP
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9390
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High Availability & Registry Synchronization
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TCP
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8099
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System Administration and Scripts
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TCP
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512
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System Administration and Scripts
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TCP
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513
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System Administration and Scripts
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TCP
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514
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Secure connectivity for System Administration and Scripts
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TCP
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1101
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Time Synchronization (NTP)
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UDP
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123
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Note If any of the ports listed above are unavailable, the installation will fail.
Installation DVD
The installation DVD covers the installation of all the system components:
Installation DVD
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Description
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Gateway Server System and Cisco ANA Servers
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•Apache Server 2.0.59 hardening based on xianshield apache 2 hardening guide
•Sun JDK 1.4.2_13-b06
•OpenSSH_4.2p1 hardening based on http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/pub/uvt-unix-doc/ssh-harden.txt guide
•ActiveState Active Perl 5.8.6
•Cisco ANA Gateway v3.6
•Cisco ANA Unit v3.6
•Cisco ANA 3.6 Service Pack 1
•Cisco ANA 3.6 Service Pack 2
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Web Start Cisco ANA Clients
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•Cisco ANA Manage v3.6
•Cisco ANA NetworkVision v3.6
•Cisco ANA EventVision v3.6
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Configurable Device Management Platform (CDMP
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•Includes all other Cisco ANA software
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Activation Server
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•Includes only the Verity Activation Server (formerly Dralasoft)
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Workflow Client
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•Includes only the Verity Workflow Client (formerly Dralasoft)
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Cisco ANA Shell
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•The command line interface of the Cisco ANA Shell Manage system.
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Solaris Services and Components Used by Cisco ANA
The following table lists the Solaris services and components that are being used by the Cisco ANA system and must not be removed:
Name
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Description of function
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Configuration information
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TCP or UDP port numbers
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Traffic classification
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Xntpd
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Time server
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/etc/inet/ntp.conf
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123 (UDP)
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ntp
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/bin/tcsh
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Unix shell
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None
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None
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None
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/usr/bin/tcsh
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Unix shell
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None
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None
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None
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Perl
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Scripting language
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None
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None
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None
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/bin/sh
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Unix shell
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None
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None
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None
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Rsh/rexec
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Remote shell
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None
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512,513,514 (TCP)
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None
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Product Services Installed with Cisco ANA
The following table lists the product services that are installed with the Cisco ANA system:
Name
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Description of function
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Configuration information
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TCP or UDP port numbers
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Dynamic TCP or UDP port ranges
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Inter-dependencies with other features, applications and services
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Traffic classification
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Avm[1-999]
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Main app
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Main/registry/Avm[NUM].xml
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2000-3000, 8000-9000 (TCP)
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Java,Perl,Tcsh
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Inner protocol
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Udp2icmp
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Icmp redirector
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-
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10001 (UDP)
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-
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Perl
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-
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redirectUdp
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Udp redirector
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-
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162,1162,514,1514 (UDP)
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-
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Perl
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-
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Sheer_secured
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Secured connectivity between gateway and unit
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local/sheer_secured/sheer_config
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1101 (TCP)
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-
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-
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ssh
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webserver
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Serves the client webstart and the bloodtest.
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utils/apache/conf/ sheer.conf
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1310, 1311 (TCP)
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-
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-
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http
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Machine interface
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BQL machine to machine interface
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-
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9002 (TCP)
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-
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Java
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-
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secure machine interface
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Secured BQL machine to machine interface
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-
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9003 (TCP)
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-
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Java
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-
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transport switch
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Gateway/unit internal message bus
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-
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9390 (TCP)
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-
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Java
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-
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Client Applications Transport
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Client/ Gateway message bus
This point to point (PTP) connection is secured by SSL.
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-
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9771 (TCP)
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-
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Java
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-
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Syslog redirector
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Redirects syslog messages
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-
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1512 (UDP)
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-
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-
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-
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Traps redirector
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Redirects trap events
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-
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1162 (UDP)
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-
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-
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Snmp
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Note If any of the ports listed above are unavailable, the installation will fail.
