Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Port issues

In Chapter 1, ArcGIS Enterprise Introduction and Installation, we discussed the ports that are required to be open for the different components of ArcGIS Enterprise communications. On some networks, all machines on the network can communicate over all ports. In other words, all inbound ports are open and there are no firewall rules blocking any ports. A configuration such as this makes installation and configuration simpler, as all ports you will need are open between machines. This can be made even easier if the Web Adaptor server is inside the network. All that said, this is rarely the case. In many networks, internal machines, for security reasons, cannot talk on all ports and the Web Adaptor server; again, for security reasons, ...