HP: SD through a firewall

Title:

HP: SD through a firewall

Author:

Douglas O’Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>

Description:

HP: SD through a firewall

Date created:

07/2005

Date updated:

07/2005

Disclaimer:

Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk. If you screw up a system, don’t blame it on me…

This little tidbit came of working at a client who was completely firewall happy. They had firewalls between just about each and every network segment they had. In order to set up a swdepot server, I needed to limit the network ports which the swagent and swinstall commands would use. A google search didn’t provide any useful information, but a search of itrc.hp.com did. The exact document ID is USDUXKBRC00011289. Here’s the releent information.

• On the depot server:

  • Edit the /sbin/init.d/swagentd startup script. Add:

    RPC_RESTRICTED_PORTS=ncacn_ip_tcp[2200-2205]
    

    to the top of the file.

  • Stop and restart the swagent service:

    /sbin/init.d/swagentd stop; /sbin/init.d/swagentd start
    

• On any system which will need to access the depot server, ensure the following two lines are in root’s profile.

  RPC_RESTRICTED_PORTS=ncacn_ip_tcp[2200-2205]
  export RPC_RESTRICTED_PORTS