Port Assignments

Select MM Control → Port Assignments to assign I/O ports to various protocols.

The following illustration shows port assignment settings for an advanced management module.

Graphics illustrating the open ports page for an advanced management module.

Graphics illustrating the port assignment page for an advanced management module.

Select Port Assignments to configure some of the ports that are used by the management module. Management-module ports that can be configured on the Port Assignments page are listed in Table 1. Fixed ports that are used by the management module are listed in Table 2. Some ports can be modified by only some management-module types.

Click View Configuration Summary to display the configuration settings for all BladeCenter® users and components.

Table 1. User-configurable management-module ports
Port name	Default port number	Purpose
HTTP	80	Web server HTTP connection using UDP
HTTPS	443	SSL connection using TCP
Telnet	23	Telnet command-line interface connection
SSH	22	Secure Shell (SSH) command-line interface connection
SNMP agent	161	SNMP get/set commands using UDP
SNMP traps	162	SNMP traps using UDP
FTP	21	Listen port of the management-module FTP server
FTP Data	20	Data port of the management-module FTP server
TFTP	69	Management-module TFTP server
Remote presence	3900	Remote disk, storage, and KVM operations
SLP	427	UDP Service Location Protocol (SLP) connection
TCP command mode	6090	IBM® Systems Director commands using TCP/IP Note: IBM Systems Director might not be able to locate the advanced management module using TCP Command Mode if this port number is changed.
Secure TCP command mode	6091	IBM Systems Director commands using TCP/IP Note: IBM Systems Director might not be able to locate the advanced management module using Secure TCP Command Mode if this port number is changed.
SMASH command-line processor	50023	Management-module SMASH command-line protocol over Telnet
Secure SMASH command-line processor	50022	Management-module secure SMASH command-line protocol over SSH

Table 2. Fixed management-module ports
Port number (fixed)	Purpose
25	TCP email alerts
53	UDP Domain Name Server (DNS) resolver
68	DHCP client connection using UDP
13991	IBM Systems Director alerts using UDP