HP Vulnerability and Patch Manager 6.0 software Installation and Configuration Guide HP Part Number: 579548-001 Published: January 2010, First Edition

• TCP 5989—WBEM/WMI Mapper secure
• TCP 50000—HTTPS
• TCP 50001—Secure SOAP
• TCP and UDP 53—DNS
The following ports are used by the Virtual Machine Management Pack and must be open:
• 1125
• 1126
• 40420
Modifying firewall configuration settings
To ensure that Vulnerability and Patch Manger 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 Systems Insight Manager and
Vulnerability and Patch Manger (CMS) server with the IP address and Network Naming. These files are
located at C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\etc. The target systems must be able to resolve the Vulnerability
and Patch Manger server name to an IP address.
The server host name where Systems Insight Manager and Vulnerability and Patch Manger 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:
Be sure that the DNS suffix for this connection field has the correct DNS suffix and that both the Register this
connection’s addressees in DNS and Use this connection’s DNS suffix in DNS registration checkboxes are
selected.
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