Having issue trying to access my SMC 3.61 server with the SMC Windows client. My network guru has opened up port 2099 thru the firewall, but he also sees traffic on port 2001, which is not listed in the documentation? Getting error "Communications could not be established with the server. The server version may be incompatible"
Is this supported? Or should I stick with the basic Java console and remote Web consoles.
Hi again dcshear,
> My network guru has opened up
> port 2099 thru the firewall, but he also sees traffic
> on port 2001, which is not listed in the
> documentation? Getting error "Communications could
> not be established with the server. The server
> version may be incompatible"
The Windows Java Console works fine: in fact Windows tends to be the fastest place to run the Console. But port 2099 is only used for the iniital login connection. After you connect the Server will talk back to the Console on a range of ports (defined in the javaserver.properties file):
sunmc.server.console.firewall.MinPort=2000
sunmc.server.console.firewall.MaxPort=6000
...and the Console will talk to the Server on another range (defined in the javaconsole.properties file):
sunmc.server.console.firewall.MinPort=45000
sunmc.server.console.firewall.MaxPort=48000
I imagine your firewall admin won't want to open thousands of ports in each direction, so these port ranges can be trimmed down (i.e. try a range of 50 on each side and restart the Server/Console to pick up the changes).
If you're stick using only one or two ports, I've seen customers use just the web interface (default ports 8080 (http) and 8443 (https)... or run the Solaris Java Console over a ssh X tunnel (port 22) and an X system on their Windows desktop like Cygwin or Exceed.
Note: The SunMC Java Console is actually "pure Java" ... meaning the Solaris/Linux/Windows versions are all the same program, just wrapped in different packaging for the different OS's
Regards,
Mike.Kirk@HalcyonInc.com
http://www.HalcyonInc.com
