List of Available Appliance Services

This section lists the available appliance services, along with short descriptions and port information. Certain services are always on and cannot be disabled, as described in the following table.

Table 3-1 Data Services

Service Description Ports Used

NFS

Filesystem access via the NFSv3, NFSv4.0, and NFS v4.1 protocols

111 and 2049

iSCSI

LUN access via the iSCSI protocol

3260 and 3205

SMB

Filesystem access via the SMB protocol

SMB-over-NetBIOS 139

SMB-over-TCP 445

NetBIOS Datagram 138

NetBIOS Name Service 137

FTP

Filesystem access via the FTP protocol

21

HTTP

Filesystem access via the HTTP protocol

80

NDMP

NDMP host service

10000

Remote Replication

Remote replication

216 and 217

Shadow Migration

Shadow data migration

 

SFTP

Filesystem access via the SFTP protocol

218

SRP

Block access via the SRP protocol

 

TFTP

Filesystem access via the TFTP protocol

 

Virus Scan

Filesystem virus scanning

 

Cloud

Cloud data service for cloud backups

 

Note:

UIDs and GIDs from 0 to 99 are reserved by the operating system vendor for use in future applications. Their use by end-system users or vendors of layered products is not supported and may cause security-related issues with future applications.

Table 3-2 Directory Services

Service Description Ports Used

NIS

Authenticate users and groups from an NIS service

LDAP

Authenticate users and groups from an LDAP directory

389

Active Directory

Authenticate users with a Microsoft Active Directory Server

Note: Once enabled, this becomes an always-on service, and cannot be disabled.

Identity Mapping

Map between Windows entities and UNIX IDs

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.

RADIUS

Authenticate users with a RADIUS server

Note: Once enabled, all directory users use this service.

Table 3-3 Service Settings

Service Description Ports Used

DNS

Domain name service client

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.

53

Dynamic Routing

RIP and RIPng dynamic routing protocols

 

IPMP

IP network multipathing for IP fail-over

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.

 

Kerberos

Kerberos authentication

88

NTP

Network time protocol client

 

Phone Home

Product registration and support configuration

8000 (It depends on the port opened up in the proxy)

Retention File retention  

Service Tags

Product inventory support

6481

SMTP

Configure outgoing mail server

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.

 

SNMP

SNMP for sending traps on alerts and serving appliance status information

 

Syslog

Syslog Relay for sending syslog messages on alerts and forwarding service syslog messages

 

System Identity

System name and location

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.

 

Table 3-4 Remote Access Services

Service Description Ports Used

SSH

SSH for CLI access

22

REST

RESTful API

Note: Always-on service, cannot be disabled.