WhatsUp Gold Network Ports

WhatsUp Gold Network Ports

This article lists the ports used for WhatsUp Gold Network Management System and its plugins.

WhatsUp Gold

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
ICMP N/A Outbound IMCP Echo requests to devices (Ping) No
TCP 20 Inbound FTP data transfer, in “non-Passive” or “Active mode” No
TCP 21 Outbound FTP monitoring Yes
TCP  Dynamic (controlled by FTP Server) Outbound FTP data transfer, in “Passive mode” No
TCP 22 Outbound SSH monitoring and actions Yes
TCP 23 Outbound Telnet monitor No
TCP 25 Outbound E-mail actions and e-mail monitoring Yes
UDP 53 Outbound DNS monitor and device name resolution No
TCP  80 Outbound HTTP Content Monitoring Yes
TCP 80 & 443 Inbound WhatsUp Gold web server Yes
TCP 110 Outbound E-mail monitoring (POP3) Yes
TCP  135 Outbound Monitoring of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data No
TCP/UDP 137 & 138 Outbound NetBIOS name resolution No
TCP 139 & 445 Outbound File and Folder monitoring No
TCP 143 Outbound E-mail monitoring (IMAP4) Yes
UDP 161 Outbound Monitoring of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) data No
UDP 162 Inbound SNMP Trap Passive Monitoring Yes
UDP 162 Outbound SNMP Trap forwarding Yes
TCP 443 Outbound HTTP Content Monitoring and software license activation requests Yes
UDP 514 Inbound Syslog Message Passive Monitoring Yes
UDP 514 Outbound Syslog Message generation (actions) Yes
TCP 993 Outbound E-mail monitoring (IMAP4 over SSL) Yes
TCP 995 Outbound E-mail monitoring (POP3 over SSL) Yes
TCP 1433 (optional) Outbound SQL Query Monitor Yes
TCP User specified  Outbound TCPIP monitors, destination port specified in monitor configuration Yes
UDP User specified  Outbound TCPIP monitors, destination port specified in monitor configuration Yes
TCP 8740 Local Only Ipswitch Service Control Manager No
TCP 9081 & 9082 Local Only WhatsUp Gold device discovery service No
TCP 9292 Local Only WhatsUp Gold event notifications No
 TCP 9393 Local Only WhatsUp Gold State Change notifications No
 TCP 9713 Local Only Polling Data Communications Yes
 TCP 9730 Local Only Polling Control Communication Yes
         

WhatsUp Gold Distributed & MSP

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
TCP 80 & 443 Inbound (Central and Remote Sites) WhatsUp Gold web interface Yes
TCP 9394 Inbound (Central Site) Central Reporting Data Yes
TCP 9394 Outbound (Remote Sites) Central Reporting Data Yes

WhatsConfigured

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
TCP 22 Outbound Device management over SSH protocol Yes
TCP 23 Outbound Device management over Telnet protocol Yes
UDP 69 Inbound TFTP Service for restoring configuration archives No
TCP 8731 Local Only Scheduled task service No

WhatsConnected

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
TCP 22 Outbound Device discovery over SSH protocol Yes
UDP 53 Outbound Device name resolution (DNS) No
TCP 137 Outbound Device name resolution (NetBIOS) No
UDP 161 Outbound Device discovery over SNMP protocol No
TCP 443 Outbound VMWare device identification Yes
TCP 8732 Local Only Scheduled discovery service No

WhatsUp Gold Failover plug-in

Protocol Port
Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
TCP 9501 Bi-directional Failover Status between WhatsUp Gold installations and the Failover Console No
TCP 9643 Bi-directional Synchronizes settings between two systems running failover No

WhatsUp Flow Publisher

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
UDP 9398 Inbound Administration port for Flow Publisher Admin console Yes
UDP 9999 Outbound Netflow data sent to WhatsUp Flow Monitor plug-in Yes

WhatsUp Flow Monitor plug-in

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
UDP 53 Outbound Sender and receiver name resolution (DNS) No
TCP 80 & 443 Inbound WhatsUp Gold web interface Yes
TCP 137 Outbound Sender and receiver name resolution (NetBIOS) No
UDP 161 Outbound SNMP queries to flow sources for naming and interface utilization information No
UDP 9999 Inbound Flow data sent to WhatsUp Flow Monitor plug-in by flow sources Yes

WhatsUp VoIP Monitor plug-in

Protocol Port Traffic Direction Usage Configurable
UDP 161 Outbound SNMP queries to routers for IPSLA data No