Configure Windows Firewall

Open the Windows Firewall ports on each system so that the two nodes (WebSpace/Operations Hub) can communicate properly.

Before you begin

Open Windows Powershell as an administrator to run the commands.

Procedure

  1. On the Operations Hub system, run the following commands to open the firewall ports.
    1. Open Operations Hub port 443 (Operations Hub reverse proxy port): 
      New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "my_port_443" -Direction Inbound
-Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 443
  2. On the CIMPLICITY/WebSpace system, run the following commands to open the firewall ports.
    1. Open CIMPLICITY port 9443 (Public external REST port for NGINX): 
      New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "my_port_9443" -Direction
Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 9443
    2. Open CIMPLICITY port 443 (the WebSpace/IIS port): 
      New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "my_port_443" -Direction Inbound
-Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 443
    3. Open CIMPLICITY port 491 (the WebSpace server port): 
      New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "my_port_491" -Direction Inbound
-Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 491