Powerpath communication with esx server

Question

Hi, in our environment we need to specify all traffic on the firewall between subnets. I was not able to find which tcp/udp ports are required to communicate between the host that has the powerpath rpowermt tools and the esx servers. Can anyone point me to a port list? we use powerpath/ve 5.8, esx 5.1 Thank you very much Simon

Kecheng · Accepted Answer

The port should be TCP 5989. While I run rpowermt command, only this port can be monitored as “ESTABLISHED” as below:

C:\>netstat -ano | find "192.168.100.101"

TCP 192.168.100.100:49186 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49189 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49192 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49195 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49198 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49201 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49204 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49220 192.168.100.101:5989 TIME_WAIT 0

TCP 192.168.100.100:49223 192.168.100.101:5989 ESTABLISHED 10024

TCP 192.168.100.100:65298 192.168.100.101:22 TIME_WAIT 0

simon czechner · Answer

Hi KC,

yes i agree. I had a netmonitor running while opening the rpowermt command and i see consistently this port used with any command issued.

Thank you for taking your time.

I am wondering why this is not documented in the product pdfs

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