Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

Appendix A Sun N1 System Manager Protocol, Ports, and Features Reference

The tables in this appendix provide summaries of the protocols, ports, features, and services of the N1 System Manager management server, the managed servers, and the configuration options for each.

Table A–1 Management Server Protocol, Ports, and Features Reference and Ports

DHCP

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

67, 68 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

DHCP Relay required in routed networks. 

 

Port Configurable? 

no 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Responds to DHCP requests from managed servers during netboot. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

The DHCP service is enabled by the N1 System Manager during the netboot phase of OS deployment and is disabled thereafter. 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

FTP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:21 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Firmware Management for ALOM based systems 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manual assertion 

 

Authentication 

Randomly generated user and password account on the N1 System Manager server. Not user configurable 

 

Data encryption 

No 

HTTP

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

80 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Required during disk-full OS Deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

User ID and password 

 

Data encryption 

No 

HTTP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:80 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Launch of Web Console for the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 managed servers from within the N1 System Manager browser interface. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Use the n1smconfig to enable or disable, which will shutdown and restart the N1 System Manager.

 

Authentication 

User ID and password 

 

Data encryption 

No. 

HTTPS

 

Network access 

Corporate Network 

 

Default port 

6789 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Port 6789 is registered by the N1 System Manager browser interface. Override is not recommended 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Serves content to the N1 System Manager browser interface. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Port must be exclusively owned by the N1 System Manager browser interface and cannot be disabled while the N1 System Manager is running. 

 

Authentication 

PAM based Authentication done by the N1 System Manager browser interface component. 

 

Data encryption 

Yes, through certificates 

ICMP

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

5813 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Network monitoring of a running OS on managed servers. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

No 

ICMP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

5813 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Network monitoring of service processor interfaces 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

No 

IPMI

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:623 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Discovery using IPMI based service processor 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manual assertion 

 

Authentication 

User/password 

 

Data encryption 

No 

JDBC

 

Network access 

Local host 

 

Default port 

5434 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

Not applicable 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Modify the file /opt/sun/N1_Service_Provisioning_System_5.1/server/postgres/data/postgresql.conf

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Service provisioning Postgres database server 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

User/password 

 

Data encryption 

No 

JDBC

 

Network access 

Local host 

 

Default port 

5434 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

Not applicable 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Modify the file /etc/opt/sun/cacao/modules/servicescommonmodule.xml

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Service provisioning Postgres database server client 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

User ID and password 

 

Data encryption 

No 

JDBC

 

Network access 

Local host 

 

Default port 

5433 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

Not applicable 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Modify the file /var/opt/sun/scs/data/db/mgmt/postgresql.conf

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

SCS Postgres database server 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

User/password 

 

Data encryption 

No 

JDBC

 

Network access 

Local host 

 

Default port 

5433 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

Not applicable 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Modify the file /etc/opt/sun/cacao/modules/servicescommonmodule.xml

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

SCS Postgres Database client 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

User ID and password 

 

Data encryption 

None 

JMXMP

 

Network access 

localhost 

 

Default port 

10162 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Used by all features. This port is opened by the common agent container Mbean Server. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Port 10162 must be owned exclusively by the common agent container and cannot be disabled while the N1 System Manager is running. 

 

Authentication 

PAM based authentication for UnknownClient connection requests.

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

JMXMP

 

Network access 

localhost 

 

Default port 

10162 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. By editing cacao.properties.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Used by the N1 System Manager browser interface component to connect to the common agent container Mbean server using the JMX UnknownClient connection.

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

PAM 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

JMXMP

 

Network access 

localhost 

 

Default port 

10163 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. By editing cacao.properties.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Used by the N1 System Manager n1sh command line interface to connect to the common agent container CommandStream adaptor using the JMX WellknownClient connection.

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

Yes. Public key based. 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

JMXMP

 

Network access 

localhost 

 

Default port 

10163 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No. 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes, by modifying cacao.properties.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Used by the N1 System Manager n1sh command line interface to establish the WellKnownClient connection to CSA in the common agent container MbeanServer.

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

Key based authentication 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

NFS

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP/UDP:2049 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well-know port. Override is not recommended 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Used by the N1 System Manager to export file systems during disk-full OS deployment process for Solaris only. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Must always be running if OS deployment is a desired feature. NFS is not automatically enabled or disabled by the N1 System Manager. 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

No 

SMTP

 

Network access 

Management Network  

 

Default port 

TCP:25 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuratio 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Email alert based detection of hardware monitoring threshold violations for ALOM based managed servers 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Set monitored=false using the N1 System Manager, but not independent of OS monitoring.

 

Authentication 

Email account user and password configured manually prior to installation 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

All 

 

Default port 

UDP:8089 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. By editing the configuration file entry as root user. Requires restart of the N1 System Manager to activate. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

SNMP read requests for info Management Information Base (MIB) OIDs from external SNMP Managers 

 

Enable or Disable? 

The SNMP agent is active as long as the N1 System Manager is running. The SNMP agent cannot be disabled at N1 System Manager startup time or while the N1 System Manager is running. 

 

Authentication 

SNMP V1 Community string. Community strings are passed in clear text and are not configurable. 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

All 

 

Default port 

UDP:162 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. By running the create notification CLI command.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Send SNMP traps to external SNMP trap listeners per OIDS in the trap MIB. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Cannot be directly disabled at startup time or while the N1 System Manager is running. Can be indirectly disabled by denying privileges to create SNMP Notification Rules in the N1 System Manager. 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Management Network  

 

Default port 

UDP:162 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Trap based detection of hardware monitoring threshold violations for the Sun Fire V20z, V40z, X2100, X4100, and X4200.managed servers. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Set monitored=false using the N1 System Manager, but not independent of OS monitoring.

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:161 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Edit the file /etc/opt/sun/ n1gc/agent.properties as root and insert the property com.sun.hss.agent.snmpAgentPort=port number where port number is the new port number. You must configure the port on each managed node agent manually. AnN1 System Manager restart is required.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

OS Monitoring 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Do not add the osmonitor feature

 

Authentication 

SNMP V1 community string that is configurable using the N1 System Manager 

 

Data encryption 

No 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:8162 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Edit the configuration file as root user and configure the port on each managed node using the N1 System Manager. AnN1 System Manager restart is required. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Trap based detection of OS monitoring threshold violations 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Set monitored=false using the N1 System Manager, but not independent of hardware monitoring.

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V3

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:161 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. Edit the file /etc/opt/sun/ n1gc/agent.properties as root and insert the property com.sun.hss.agent.snmpAgentPort=port number where port number is the new port number. You must configure the port on each managed node agent manually. AnN1 System Manager restart is required.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

OS monitoring thresholds configuration 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Do not add the osmonitor feature

 

Authentication 

SNMP User-based Security Model (USM) user ID and password that is configurable using the N1 System Manager. 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

SSH

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:22 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Required to enable remote login by authorized users who want to launch the n1sh command line interface.

 

Enable or Disable? 

May be disabled and enabled at the OS level by the root user. Restart of the N1 System Manager is not required. 

 

Authentication 

PAM 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

SSH

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:22 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. OS monitoring

  2. Package deployment

  3. Remote command

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Do not add the base management feature. 

 

Authentication 

User password and key based 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

SSH

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:22 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. Discovery

  2. Firmware management

  3. Hardware monitoring

  4. Netboot control for Sun Fire V20z and V40z systems using the service provisioning command line interface for AMD based systems

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manual assertion 

 

Authentication 

User ID and password specified during discovery 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

TELNET

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:23 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. Discovery

  2. Power Management

  3. Hardware monitoring

  4. Firmware management

  5. Netboot control using the service processor command line interface for for ALOM based systems

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manual assertion 

 

Authentication 

User/password, configurable during discovery 

 

Data encryption 

No 

TFTP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

UDP: Random (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Not applicable 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Firmware Management for the Sun Fire V20z and V40z 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manual assertion 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

No 

     

Table A–2 Managed Server Protocol, Ports, and Features Reference

DHCP

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

67, 68 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

DHCP Relay required in routed networks 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Broadcasts DHCP requests during netboot  

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

FTP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:21 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Firmware Management for ALOM based systems 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly through manually deleting account on the service processor 

 

Authentication 

Randomly generated user and password account on the N1 System Manager server. Not user configurable 

 

Data encryption 

None 

HTTP

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

80 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Required during disk-full OS deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

ICMP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

5813 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Network monitoring of service processor interfaces for AMD and SPARC based systems. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

IPMI

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP: 623 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. Discovery

  2. Power operations

  3. Hardware monitoring

  4. Service processor and BIOS firmware management

  5. Netboot control using IPMI based service processor for AMD based systems

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly by manually deleting account on SP 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

NFS

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

2049 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override is not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Mounts remote file systems during disk-full OS Deployment process for Solaris and Linux only. 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:161 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

OS monitoring 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Authentication 

SNMP V1 Community String. Configurable using n1smconfig

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:162 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Trap based detection of hardware monitoring threshold violations 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V1

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:8162 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Trap based detection of OS monitoring threshold violations 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. See SNMP V1 in Table A–1.

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None 

SNMP V3

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:161 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Yes. See SNMP V3 in Table A–1.

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

OS monitoring threshold configuration 

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. See SNMP V3 in Table A–1.

 

Authentication 

SNMP USM user ID and password. Configurable using n1smconfig.

 

Data encryption 

None 

SSH

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP: 22 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. Discovery

  2. Firmware management

  3. Hardware monitoring

  4. Netboot control for the V20z and V40z systems using the service processor command line interface for AMD based systems

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly by manually deleting account on service processor 

 

Authentication 

User account and password configured manually on service processor 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

SSH

 

Network access 

Provisioning Network 

 

Default port 

TCP: 22 (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Well known port. Override not recommended. 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. OS Monitoring

  2. Package deployment

  3. Remote command

 

Enable or Disable? 

Yes. Custom install script 

 

Authentication 

User password and key based 

 

Data encryption 

Yes 

TELNET

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

TCP:23 (server) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

No 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

  1. Discovery

  2. Power Management

  3. Hardware monitoring

  4. Firmware management

  5. Netboot control using the service processor command line interface for ALOM based systems

 

Enable or Disable? 

Indirectly by manually deleting account on the service processor 

 

Authentication 

User ID and password, specified during discovery 

 

Data encryption 

None 

TFTP

 

Network access 

Management Network 

 

Default port 

UDP:Random (client) 

 

Router and Firewall Configuration 

No 

 

Port Configurable? 

Not applicable 

 

Feature That Maps to the Port 

Firmware management for Sun Fire V20z and V40z systems 

 

Enable or Disable? 

No 

 

Authentication 

None 

 

Data encryption 

None