What are the ports used by GFI EventsManager ? Since some network machines are using a personal firewall do I have to exempt these ports for GFI EventsManager to work?

The information in this article applies to:

  • GFI EventsManager 7
  • GFI EventsManager 8

Article ID: KBID002770

Query keywords: firewall, ports

If a personal firewall is installed on the computer where GFI EventsManager is running, make sure not to block the following ports:

  • 135 - Used for exchanging network messages.
  • 162 - UDP/TCP Uniderection port used by GFI EventsManager to receive SNMP Traps.
  • 514 – UDP/TCP Unidirectional port used by GFI EventsManager for the collection of SYSLOG messages.
  • 1433 – TCP Bidirectional port used by GFI EventsManager to communicate with the SQL Server database backend.
  • 7787/7788 – Dynamically assigned RPC ports used by GFI EventsManager to handle the communications between the internal components of the product including the event processing engine and the user interface.