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CMS Ports
372 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • October 2001
Figure 11-1
CMS ports for administration, agent, and end-entity operations
When choosing ports for Certificate Management System, be sure to choose ports
that are unique on the host system—that is, no other application can be using, or
attempting to use, the port numbers you assign to Certificate Management System.
To verify that a port is available for use, check the appropriate file for your
operating system; port numbers for network-accessible services are usually
maintained in a file named
services
. (On Unix, if you are not running as
root
or
superuser
when you install or start the server, you will have to use a port number
higher than 1024.)
Remote Administration Port
The administration port is an SSL (encrypted) port at which Certificate
Management System listens to requests from its administration interface;
administrators make these requests from the CMS window. When you install
Certificate Management System, it assigns a random number (greater than 1024) as
the administration port number. You can change this port number at any time, to
any number between 1 and 65535. For security reasons you should consider
changing the administration port number periodically.