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Port Numbers

This technical document describes the IP port numbers used by MOVEit Automation. 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 might need to be opened up on the firewall.

MOVEit Automation (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 Transfer.

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 Transfer.

990 *

Outgoing

Typical port number implicit secure FTP servers.

1433

Outgoing

MOVEit Automation generally connects to Microsoft SQL Server on this port, if SQL Server is the database engine.

3306

Outgoing

MOVEit Automation connects to MySQL on this port, if MySQL is the database engine.

3471-3473

Incoming

MOVEit Automation Admin connects to MOVEit Automation on these ports.

3472

Outgoing

On a failover system, MOVEit Automation connects to the other MOVEit Automation on this port.

3478-3479

Outgoing

MOVEit Automation 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 Automation Admin (miadmin.exe)

Port

Direction

Description

3471-3473

Outgoing

MOVEit Automation Admin connects to MOVEit Automation on these ports.

MOVEit Automation 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 Transfer.

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 Transfer.

990 *

Outgoing

Typical port number implicit secure FTP servers.

3478-3479

Incoming

MOVEit Automation 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 Automation.

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.