Linux, Red hat enterprise linux 4, 5, and 6 – HP System Management Homepage-Software User Manual

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5.

Enter the following product name and the port number information.

Add the exceptions listed in the following table to the firewall protection:

Table 1 Firewall exceptions

Port Number

Product

2301

HP SMH Insecure Port:

2381

HP SMH Secure Port:

6.

Click OK to save your settings and close the Add a Port dialog box.

7.

Click OK to save your settings and close the Windows Firewall dialog box.

Linux

Configuring firewalls varies, depending on the version of Linux installed.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6

The following displays an example of iptables firewall rules for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file:

# Firewall configuration written by redhat-config-securitylevel

# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.

*filter

:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]

:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]

:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]

:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]

-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT

-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80

-j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21

-j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22

-j ACCEPT

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

COMMIT

The following displays the new value in the iptables firewall rules for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
and 5 that allows access to HP SMH in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file:

# Firewall configuration written by redhat-config-securitylevel

# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.

*filter

:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]

Configuring firewall settings

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