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Planning & Consolidation => COGNOS Planning => Topic started by: StuartS on 09 Oct 2008 04:29:59 AM

Title: Port Numbers
Post by: StuartS on 09 Oct 2008 04:29:59 AM
Hi All

I have a group of three servers.  Development LAN.

1 SQL server
1 Application server, Cognos EP 8.1 (Analyst/Contributor/Access Manager)
1 Job Sever

I know from installation that ports 389 and 1433 are used.  Does anyone know if 8.1 uses any other ports?  My network admin is applyig a f-secure patch that blocks some ports.  So I need to anticipate ports used to prevent the Cognos software stopping from working.

Thanks

Stuart
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: ducthcogtechie on 09 Oct 2008 04:32:25 AM
Are you using COM or http communication onyour jobserver?
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: StuartS on 09 Oct 2008 04:35:15 AM
The job server is using COM.

I have added 2 cores from the APP server in a second cluster as another job server and this is using HTTP.

Thanks

Stuart
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: sascha on 09 Oct 2008 04:53:03 AM
Port 389 is the standard ldap port, 1433 standard SQL.
If you use http (without SSL) I assume that standard 80 will be used.
AFAIK no other ports are used.
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: StuartS on 09 Oct 2008 04:55:07 AM
Thank you.
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: sascha on 09 Oct 2008 04:57:14 AM
You should think about having the job server communicate via http as COM is meant to be outdated. If you do so, don't forget to add 'msadc' as virtual dir to you web server.
Title: Re: Port Numbers
Post by: ducthcogtechie on 12 Oct 2008 09:34:48 AM
COM means any random port between 1024 and 5000.
As advised earlier, switch to http when possible. (also more stable then com)
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