Symantec ApplicationHA ports and firewall settings

Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability uses certain ports and services during installation and configuration. If you have configured a firewall, ensure that the firewall settings allow access to these ports and services.

Table: Services and ports used by ApplicationHA displays the services and ports used by Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability.

Table: Services and ports used by ApplicationHA

Component Name/Process

Port/Protocol

Description

File and Printer Sharing

Used by ApplicationHA installer while installing ApplicationHA.

The installer uses this to copy the installation files to the machine.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service

Used by ApplicationHA installer while installing ApplicationHA.

The installer uses this service to discover virtual machines.

Veritas Storage Foundation Messaging Service (xprtld)

5634 / TCP

Used for communications between the Symantec High Availability Console host machine and the virtual machines.