HP Insight Vulnerability and Patch Manager Software - Manual (Page 82)

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• UDP 1433, 1434—MSDE Shared Instance Support
• TCP (variable)—MSDE TCP/IP communications. This port, assigned at random by MSDE during
installation, can be identified by selecting Start>Run, entering svrnetcn.exe, and clicking OK.
Select Computername\Device from the Server Instances dropdown menu. In the Enabled
Protocols list, select TCP/IP>Properties. The port number appears. The port number can be
changed at this time, if necessary.
The following ports are used by HP SIM and must be open:
• TCP 22—SSH
• UDP 161—SNMP
• UDP 162—SNMP trap
• TCP 280—HTTP
• TCP 5989—WBEM/WMI Mapper secure
• TCP 50000—HTTPS
• TCP 50001—Secure SOAP
• TCP and UDP 53—DNS
Modifying firewall configuration settings
To ensure that Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack can obtain updates, be sure that your
firewall is configured for access to ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/essentials/vpm/ .
Configuring a DNS server
If no DNS server exists in the server network, update the host files on both the HP SIM and VPM
servers (if separate) with the IP and Network Naming. These files are located at
C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\etc. The target systems must be able to resolve the VPM server name
to an IP address.
The server host name where HP SIM and VPM are installed must be correctly configured for name
resolution and reverse lookup. To determine if DNS is properly configured, use the
nslookup
command, passing both the host IP address and the fully qualified hostname.
If using DHCP, verify the following configurations in the advanced TCP/IP properties: