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OS Provisioning Network Port Usage
During the installation of OS distributions, internal application and services must communicate between
the OS Provisioning Server and the target machines. If there are firewalls or routers between the OS
Provisioning Server and the target machines, they must be configured to allow the following ports.
Application or Service Port Description
bootpd/DHCP UDP 68 Provides address and server location
of PXE configuration files.
TFTP UDP69 Downloads initial PXE/kernel.
http TCP 80 Downloads kickstart and package
files.
OS Provisioning Server 21307 Communication with the nodes,
including messages and registration
requests.
OS Provisioning Server 40610 Allows nodes to communicate with
OS Provisioning Server, including
messages and registration requests.
OS Provisioning Server Repository
Server
21307 OS Provisioning Server web service
listening for provisioning requests
from VCM.
OS Provisioning Server Hardware
Discovery
21309 Used by the hardware discovery
program to communicate with the
inventory daemon to add new
machines into the OS Provisioning
Server database.
VCM Linux Agent 26542 Used for communication between
VCM and the VCM Linux Agent.
Table 16–1. OS Provisioning Ports
Provisioning Network Firewall Configuration
As an alternative to setting the specific ports, as specified above, you can add -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-i eth1 -j ACCEPT to the /etc/sysconfig/iptables firewall configuration file to allow traffic on all
ports on the provisioning network.
Configure the OS Provisioning Server Firewall
Configure the firewall on your OS Provisioning Server to allow proper communication on the required
ports.
Hardware and Software Requirements for the Operating System Provisioning Server
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