All IP addresses must use IPv4. Cryptographic Security Platform Compliance Manager does not support IPv6 addresses.

Inbound and outbound are described from the perspective of the Compliance Manager nodes. Internal traffic is between Compliance Manager nodes.

Port reference

Port

Protocol

Application

Direction

Transport security

Requirement and notes

22

TCP

SSH

Inbound: administrator systems to any cluster server

SSH encryption

Required for troubleshooting and support access.

25

TCP

SMTP

Outbound: Compliance Manager to mail server

If you disable SMTPS and the server supports StartTLS, it will use StartTLS when the connection is made. SMTPS is not compatible with StartTLS, and only one can be used.

Typical outbound mail port. 


53

UDP

DNS

Outbound: Compliance Manager to DNS server

N/A

Required for name resolution.

123

UDP or TCP

NTP

Outbound: Compliance Manager to NTP server

N/A

Typical NTP port

The network ports indicated for SMTP, syslog, and NTP are the typical ports for these services. If you need to change those ports, consult with the administrators of these services.


161

UDP

SNMP polling

Inbound: SNMP manager to Compliance Manager

TLS is available

Required only when the SNMP Polling feature is enabled.

162

UDP

SNMP traps

Outbound: Compliance Manager to SNMP manager

TLS is available

Required only when the SNMP Traps feature is enabled.

443

TCP

CSP Compliance Manager webGUI, API, and incoming data source connections

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

TLS is always enabled for all use cases

N/A

514

TCP

Syslog

Outbound: Compliance Manager to remote syslog server

mTLS is available

TCP/514 is required only when the SYSLOG feature is enabled.

For remote syslog, configure an outbound TCP or UDP port in the range between 25 and 65535. 

Cryptographic Security Platform Compliance Manager supports syslog over both TCP and UDP.


587

TCP

SMTP-TLS

Outbound: Compliance Manager to mail server

TLS enabled

Required only when the SMTP-TLS feature is enabled.

8443

TCP

Internal clustering

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

2281

TCP

Zookeeper

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

2888

TCP

Zookeeper

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

3888

TCP

Zookeeper

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

5432

TCP

Postgres DB

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

9093

TCP

Kafka

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

27017

TCP

Mongo DB

Bidirectional: between Compliance Manager nodes

mTLS enabled

N/A

Additional port reference

Backup and Restore via NFS

To access Compliance Manager-generated backup files over NFS, open the following ports:

Port

Service

2046

lockd

2047

rpc.statd

2048

rpc.mountd

2049

NFS port

Run the following command to check the port status.

rcpinfo <cm>

Where <cm> is the Compliance Manager IP address or the domain name.