Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 266)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 266 System maintenance
System maintenance
Ports used by the system
If nothing else is mentioned, the ports are both inbound and outbound. The port numbers are the
default numbers. You can change the port numbers if needed.
Port number Protocol Used by Purpose
20 and 21 FTP Recording servers Listening for event messages from devices.
25 SMTP Recording servers
Listening for event messages from devices and
for sending images to the surveillance system
server via e-mail.
80 HTTP
The IIS on the
management server
Running the Management Server service.
443 HTTPS
Management server
and service channel
Authentication of basic users.
554 RTSP Recording servers Traffic that controls streaming from cameras.
1024 and
higher
(except the
ports
mentioned
below)
HTTP Recording servers
Outbound only. Traffic between cameras and
servers.
1234 TCP/UDP Event Server
Listening for generic events from external
systems or devices.
1235 TCP Event Server
Listening for generic events from external
systems or devices.
1433 TCP
All processes in the
system (among others
management server,
log server and event
server)
Communication with the SQL Server.
5210 TCP
Recording servers and
failover recording
servers
Merging of databases after a failover recording
server has been running.
5432 TCP Recording servers Listening for event messages from devices.
7563 TCP
Recording servers and
XProtect Smart Client
Communication with the ImageServer interface.
Also handling of PTZ camera control commands
and for retrieving image streams from clients etc.