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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.