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13 Best Practices for Securing Dell EMC SC Series Storage | BP1082
Protocol
Purpose
Direction
HTTPS
VASA 1.0 and 2.0 provided with DSM 2016 R1, supports
communications from VMware vCenter
®
and ESXi
®
Inbound
MySQL
Connecting to an external MySQL database
Outbound
SMIS over HTTP
Receiving unencrypted SMIS communication
Inbound
SMIS over
HTTPS
Receiving encrypted SMIS communication
Inbound
Legacy Client
Listener Port
Communicating with the remote data collector
Providing automatic upgrade functionality for previous
versions of the DSM client
Inbound and
outbound
HTTP
Communication from Storage Manager Server Agents
Alerts forwarded from SC Series arrays
Communicating with VMware servers
Inbound and
outbound
Server Agent
Socket
Listening Port
Communicating with Server Agents
Outbound
APM Agent
Listening port
Communicating with Application Protection Manager
agents
Outbound
FluidFS
Communicating with managed FluidFS clusters
Outbound
FluidFS
diagnostics
Retrieving diagnostics from managed FluidFS clusters
Outbound
DSM UDP ports and services
UDP port
Protocol
Purpose
Direction
22
SSH V2
Access to console (DSM virtual appliance only)
Inbound
514
Syslog
Receiving logs forwarded from SC Series arrays
Forwarding SCOS logs to syslog servers
Inbound and
outbound
8514 (VA
only
Syslog
Alternative port for syslog messages
Inbound and
outbound