Welcome to the Sitekeeper
3.5 third-party firewall support section.
Sitekeeper communicates with other computers through ports 135, 139 and 445
to manage their software and hardware inventory as well as their patch (or
update) status. It is necessary to open these ports in any third-party
firewall to enable the basic operation of Sitekeeper.
The recent release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP contains a number of
security-related enhancements to the operating system and by default,
enables the firewall on the computer on which is it installed. Some of these
enhancements affect the operation of certain network functionality in
Sitekeeper.
If Sitekeeper 3.5 or Sitekeeper 3.5 Agent are installed on computers that
already have Windows XP SP2 installed, no further firewall configuration is
needed on those computers.
If a third-party firewall is enabled on any computer that does not have
Sitekeeper agent running on it, Port 135, 139, 445 and 31040 must be
enabled.
If a third-party firewall is enabled on any computer running Sitekeeper
agent, Port 31042 and 31040 must be enabled.
If you are using the Windows Firewall provided by Windows XP SP2, please
check
winfirewall.aspx to learn how to
configure multiple systems through a remote login script or through Group
Policy.
After properly configuring your network and firewall settings, if you are
still running into trouble using Sitekeeper, check with your firewall
provider to see what other actions can be taken to use third-party software
in conjunction with the firewall. If you are still running into issues
please write to us at
Tech_support@diskeeper.com.
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