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Ports for the Report Server

The Report Server and CA Identity Manager use two ports for communication: 

• Port 6400
• The Report Server web application port, which is used for the reporting web interface. This port is not the application server port for the Identity Manager server. For Tomcat, it is normally 8080; for Weblogic, it is 7001, for Websphere, it is 9080. 

The web server ports are provided during the Report Server installation.  So if you use different ports during the installation, those ports should be opened through the firewall when the Report Server is deployed in production. The Report Server does not connect to the application server used by CA Identity Manager at any point, so no ports need to be opened to that application server from the Report Server.

All database ports that CA Identity Manager has configured for the reporting and auditing databases should be opened. When the Identity Manager server passes database information to the Report Server, it passes the JDBC connection string, which contains the database port. So for example if the snapshot database is using Oracle as its database, the Report Server needs the Oracle port open outbound.