Port usage

The number of ports that IBM® Cloud Manager with OpenStack uses depends upon the various components and which network interfaces allow access to them.

The following tables list the default ports that might apply to your IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack environment, depending upon your configuration. You can change these values to customize them for your environment as well.

Table 1. Port usage for IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack controller nodes
Port Firewall rule Notes
22 sshd SSH access that uses the customer network can be enabled.
67 DHCP server  
68 DHCP server  
80 openstack-dashboard-server Provides access to the Horizon dashboard.
443 openstack-dashboard-server Provides https access to the Horizon dashboard.
69 tftp server TFTP UDP port, used by Ironic via PXE
2224 pcsd  
3260 openstack-block-storage-volume-iscsi-port  
4369 rabbitmq-cluster-epmd Provides access to ports used when a RabbitMQ cluster is configured.
5000 openstack-identity-api  
5405 pacemaker and corosync  
5671 openstack-messaging-server  
6080 openstack-compute-novnc  
7869 ego lim Provides access to the load information manager in IBM Platform Resource Scheduler.
7870 ego vemkd Provides access to the VEM kernel daemon in IBM Platform Resource Scheduler.
7871 ego pem Provides access to the process execution manager in IBM Platform Resource Scheduler.
8000 openstack-orchestration-api-cfn  
8003 openstack-orchestration-api-cloudwatch  
8004 openstack-orchestration-api  
8774 openstack-compute-api  
8776 openstack-block-storage-api  
8777 openstack-telemetry-api  
9191 openstack-image-registry  
9292 openstack-image-api  
6385 openstack-ironic-api  
9696 openstack-network-api  
25672 rabbitmq-cluster-dist Provides access to ports used when a RabbitMQ cluster is configured.
27017 openstack-database-nosql DB2® NoSQL wire protocol listener for access to ceilodb2 database
35357 openstack-identity-admin  
50001 openstack-database-server  
50010 - 50017 db2-hadr Provides access to ports used when DB2 HADR is configured.
Table 2. Port Usage - IBM Cloud Manager - Self Service
Port Firewall rule Notes
7777 sce OSGi console, access from localhost only
8080 sce IBM Cloud Manager - Self Service user interface
18443 sce IBM Cloud Manager - Self Service user interface back-end
Table 3. Port usage - Compute nodes
Port Firewall rule Notes
22 ssh SSH port. This port must be accessible from the Chef server.
5900 - 5999 vnc-server Only applicable to KVM/QEMU or PowerKVM compute nodes.
Table 4. Port usage - Chef server
Port Notes
14443 The secure (HTTPS) port for accessing the Chef server. The port number is configurable.
1480 The non-secure (HTTP) port for accessing the Chef server. The port number is configurable.
8443 The secure (HTTPS) port for accessing the IBM Cloud Manager - Deployer. The port number is configurable.