Below is a reference guide for Device42's commonly used network communication ports. Depending on your deployment topology and the type of autodiscovery jobs you are running, you may need to open some or all of these ports. For more details on Windows discover and WMI, please see Everything You Need for Windows Discovery. For any additional questions, please reach out to Support.
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Source |
Port |
Protocol |
Directionality |
Reason |
|
Device42 Main Appliance |
22 (TCP) |
SSH |
Device42 to targets |
SSH based discovery of linux and unix systems |
|
Device42 Main Appliance |
53 (TCP) |
DNS |
Device42 to targets |
DNS Zone Discovery |
|
Device42 Main Appliance |
161 (UDP) |
SNMP |
Device42 to targets |
SNMP discovery of network equipment and connections, and any management interfaces |
|
Device42 Main Appliance |
443 (TCP) |
APIs |
Device42 to targets |
Hypervisor API based discovery of host and guest VMs |
|
Device42 Main Appliance |
623 (UDP) |
IPMI |
Device42 to targets |
IPMI based discovery of management interfaces |
|
Device42 Remote Collector(s) (RC) |
443 (TCP) |
HTTPS |
RC to Main Appliance |
Connection from Remote Collectors to Main Appliance |
|
Device42 Remote Collector(s) (RC) |
22 (TCP) |
SSH |
RC to targets |
SSH based discovery of linux and unix systems |
|
Device42 Remote Collector(s) (RC) |
161 (UDP) |
SNMP |
RC to targets |
SNMP discovery of network equipment and connections, and any management interfaces |
|
Device42 Remote Collector(s) (RC) |
443 (TCP) |
APIs |
RC to targets |
Hypervisor API based discovery of host and guest VMs |
|
Device42 Windows Discovery Service (WDS) |
443 (TCP) |
HTTPS |
WDS to RC |
Connection from WDS to Remote Collector |
|
Device42 Windows Discovery Service (WDS) |
135 (TCP) 137 (TCP) 139 (TCP) 445 (TCP) 1024-65535 (TCP) |
WMI |
WDS to targets |
WMI based discovery of Windows infrastructure |
|
Device42 Remote Collector(s) (RC) |
135 (TCP) 22 (TCP) |
WMI SSH |
RC to targets |
TCP Port Scan for Windows (135) and *nix (22) targets |