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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Change the port number for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console
A portal server on Windows, Linux, or UNIX uses port 15200 for HTTP connections and 15201 for HTTPS connections.
Ports 1920 and 3361 are legacy ports that are needed for connection to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console. However, these ports should no longer be used for clients connecting to the portal server. Ports 15200 and 15201 replace ports 1920 and 3661 for clients of the portal server.
Do not change the default port settings, especially on multifunction UNIX and Linux systems, since many components might be located on the same system and some of these components might depend on the default values being used for HTTP and HTTPS ports.
If change the default settings, you can change them using the KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable:
- In the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services window, right-click Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, point to Advanced, and select Edit ENV File to open the KFWENV file.
- Add the following line to the file:
KDE_TRANSPORT=HTTP:1920 HTTPS:3661
Substitute the port numbers you want to use.
- If a KDC_FAMILIES environment variable exists in the file, copy the settings from that variable to KDE_TRANSPORT (except the ones you want to override). KDE_TRANSPORT supersedes and overrides KDC_FAMILIES.
- Save the file.
- Recycle the portal server. (Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and select Recycle.)
- cd install_dir/config directory
- Add the following line to the cq.ini file:
KDE_TRANSPORT=HTTP:1920 HTTPS:3661
Substitute the port numbers you want to use.
- If a KDC_FAMILIES environment variable exists in the file, copy the settings from that variable to KDE_TRANSPORT (except the ones you want to override). KDE_TRANSPORT supersedes and overrides KDC_FAMILIES.
- Recycle the portal server.
Special settings:
The KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable keyword redefines the ports to be use by the HTTP and HTTPS daemons. Certain special settings are also provided to meet special needs.
- HTTP:0
- Forces all access to the integrated web server to use the secure HTTPS daemon service.
- HTTPS:0
- If SSL is not available on the local system, this KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable eliminates startup error messages pertaining to a failure to bind an HTTPS (3661) listening port.
- HTTP:0 HTTPS:0
- These settings block access to both the HTTP (1920), and HTTPS (3661) listening ports, which has the effect of disabling all usage of the HTTP and HTTPS daemon services.
- HTTP_SERVER:n
- This KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable keyword disables HTTP and HTTPS daemon services. Do not specify this for a hub monitoring server or for the portal server.
- HTTP_CONSOLE:n
- This KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable keyword disables the CT/Service Console facility of the HTTP daemon service. HTTP_CONSOLE:N removes the process from the published Tivoli service index; this makes the process inaccessible from the CT/Service Console.
Parent topic:
Configure port number assignments for the portal server