How can I test whether these ports are open on my firewall for Profile Manager to function? Thanks.

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How can I test whether these ports are open on my firewall for Profile Manager to function? Thanks.

Hi, I'm trying to get Profile Manager to manage iPads when off the LAN and suspect that the necessary ports mentioned in HT5302 are not open on our firewall as follows:

To use Profile Manager, you should ensure that the following ports are open on your network.

Port	TCP/UDP	Description
2195, 2196	TCP	Used by Profile Manager to send push notifications
5223	TCP	Used to maintain a persistent connection to APNs and receive push notifications
80/443	TCP	Provides access to the web interface for Profile Manager admin
1640	TCP	Enrollment access to the Certificate

What's the easiest way of finding out if these ports are open or not?

Thanks,

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 3:06 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 13, 2012 4:08 AM in response to CaadMan

Hi

A number of ways you could do this:

One way is to use telnet. From outside of the LAN (from your home as an example) launch terminal and telnet to the relevant port. If we use server.example.com as the hostname of your server or 100.100.100.100 as the external IP address of your server the command would look like this:

telnet server.example.com 2195

or:

telnet 100.100.100.100 2195

It will either say connected or it will refuse the connection. Change the port number to test the other ports.

HTH?

Tony

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Answer 2

Nov 13, 2012 5:11 AM in response to CaadMan

From inside the network you can use this website

http://www.canyouseeme.org

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Answer 3

Nov 13, 2012 11:57 AM in response to CaadMan

In terms of system administration, NMAP is a tool that is quite useful. You would be greatly benefited by learning to use it...

http://nmap.org

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