Port availability – XClarity Management Hub
When using Lenovo XClarity Management Hub to manage devices through Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator, certain ports must be open to facilitate communication. If the required ports are blocked or used by another process, some XClarity Orchestrator functions might not perform correctly.
Access to the XClarity Management Hub server
If XClarity Management Hub and all manageable devices are behind a firewall, and you intend to access those devices from a browser that is outside of the firewall, you must ensure that XClarity Management Hub ports are open.
XClarity Management Hub server listens on and responds through the ports that are listed in the following table.
- XClarity Management Hub is a RESTful application that communicates securely over TCP on port 443.
- Lenovo XClarity Management Hub can be optionally configured to make outbound connections to external services. These connections might also require access to a domain name service (DNS) server on TCP or UDP port 53 to resolve external server names.
| Communication | Lenovo XClarity Management Hub appliance |
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| Outbound (ports open on external systems) |
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| Inbound (ports open on the Lenovo XClarity Management Hub appliance) |
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Access between the Lenovo XClarity Management Hub and managed devices
If manageable devices are behind a firewall and if you intend to manage those devices from a Lenovo XClarity Management Hub server that is outside of that firewall, you must ensure that all ports involved with communications between the Lenovo XClarity Management Hub and the baseboard management controller in each device are open.
- Devices
Communication ThinkEdge Client devices Outbound (ports open on external systems) Not applicable Inbound (ports open on the Lenovo XClarity Management Hub appliance) - MQTT – TCP on port 8883