Advanced Topics - Port Numbers

This technical document describes the IP port numbers used by MOVEit Central. This information is provided to allow network administrators to configure firewalls appropriately.

Most protocols (marked with * below) allow non-standard ports to be used, so at some sites, some additional ports not mentioned here may need to be opened up on the firewall.

MOVEit Central (MICentral.exe)

Port Direction Description
21 * Outgoing Typical port number for traditional, or "explicit" secure, FTP servers.
22 * Outgoing Typical port number for SSH servers.
25 * Outgoing Typical port number used for outbound email using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
80 * Outgoing Typical port number for insecure HTTP servers, including MOVEit DMZ.
110 * Outgoing Typical port number used to fetch incoming email using POP3 (Post Office Protocol).
139 Outgoing Port used for Windows filesystem shares. The protocol is known as SMB (Server Message Block).
443 * Outgoing Typical port number for secure HTTPS servers, including MOVEit DMZ.
990 * Outgoing Typical port number implicit secure FTP servers.
1433 Outgoing MOVEit Central generally connects to Microsoft SQL Server on this port, if SQL Server is the database engine.
3306 Outgoing MOVEit Central connects to MySQL on this port, if MySQL is the database engine.
3471-3473 Incoming MOVEit Central Admin connects to MOVEit Central on these ports.
3472 Outgoing On a failover system, MOVEit Central connects to the other MOVEit Central on this port.
3478-3479 Outgoing MOVEit Central connects to the AS/2 module, MIAS2.exe, on these ports.
Various Incoming Unpredictable port numbers > 1023 used for active mode FTP data transfers.
Various Outgoing Generally unpredictable port numbers > 1023 used for passive mode FTP data transfers.

MOVEit Central Admin (miadmin.exe)

Port Direction Description
3471-3473 Outgoing MOVEit Central Admin connects to MOVEit Central on these ports.

MOVEit Central AS/2 helper (MIAS2.exe)

Port Direction Description
21 * Outgoing Typical port number for traditional, or "explicit" secure, FTP servers.
25 * Outgoing Typical port number used for outbound email using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
80 * Outgoing Typical port number for insecure HTTP servers, including MOVEit DMZ.
110 * Outgoing Typical port number used to fetch incoming email using POP3 (Post Office Protocol).
443 * Outgoing Typical port number for secure HTTPS servers, including MOVEit DMZ.
990 * Outgoing Typical port number implicit secure FTP servers.
3478-3479 Incoming MOVEit Central connects to the AS/2 module, MIAS2.exe, on these ports.
Various Incoming Unpredictable port numbers > 1023 used for active mode FTP data transfers.
Various Outgoing Generally unpredictable port numbers > 1023 used for passive mode FTP data transfers.

MySQL (mysqld-nt.exe)

MySQL is one of the database engines that is supported by MOVEit Central.

Port Direction Description
3306 Incoming Database server listens on this port number. Only local (127.0.0.1) connections are needed.

* indicates a default port number that can be overridden.