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PORT
PORT defaults to 1918 for TCP and 3660 for secure TCP.
These numbers are registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, for more information go to http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.
PORT defines the base port number. For a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, the base number is the listening port and the port that agents connect to. For agents, IBM Tivoli Monitoring processing attempts to open a listening port at number base+N*4096, where N is a number from 1 to 15. If one is already in use Tivoli Monitoring attempts to open a listening port at the next higher iteration. If no Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is present the base port is reserved, in the event a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server will be started later.
An agent uses the listening port for two main purposes:
- Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server requesting real-time data from the agent,
- An agent receiving notifications from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, such as awareness of a Warehouse Proxy Agent re-registration at a new IP address or port number.
Example: IP.PIPE PORT:1918 USE:Y
In this definition mode there are a maximum of 15 agents on a server. If you have a scenario with more than 15 agents on a server, see the EPHEMERAL modifier section.
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KDE_TRANSPORT Transmission Control Protocol