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.