Port Assignments

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

The following illustration shows port assignment settings.

Graphic illustrating the port assignment page for a management modules other than the 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.

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

Table 2. Fixed management-module ports
Port number (fixed)	Purpose
25	TCP e-mail alerts
53	UDP Domain Name Server (DNS) resolver
68	DHCP client connection using UDP
427	UDP Service Location Protocol (SLP) connection
1044	Remote disk function
1045	Persistent remote disk-on-card
5900	Remote control
6090	IBM® Director commands using TCP/IP
13991	IBM Director alerts using UDP

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