UTORrecover - NetWorker TCP/IP and Firewall Checklist

Firewall Ports

Windows Installs: Ensure all 3 Windows firewalls (private, domain and public) are opened to the list of NetWorker Servers listed below.

Default Ports

Allow 7938/udp and 7937:9936/tcp from the UTORrecover NetWorker Backup Server IPs.

Customizing Ports

After upgrading or doing a fresh install of the NetWorker server you can run this command to see the ports set by NetWorker: nsrports. Output will look like this:

Service ports: 7937-9936
Connection ports: 0-0
# or 
Service ports: 7937-9936
Connection ports: 10001-30000

If you need to change them, you can run the following commands. They must be run separately, and you will need to stop and start NetWorker to have them take effect:

nsrports -S 7937-9936
nsrports -C 10001-30000

TCP/IP Requirements

The NetWorker server, when configured as a DHCP client, must use a reserved address that is synchronized with DNS.
The name of the host that the hostname command returns on the system must match the name that the IP address resolves to when using the nslookup command.
Forward and reverse DNS lookups for the host are successful.
OS tools, for example, the nslookup command, must resolve the IP address of the host to the same hostname that you defined for the NIC that NetWorker uses.
The hostname must not contain an underscore character (_).

Linux

(Optional) Adding the NetWorker Servers listed in "UTORrecover NetWorker Backup Server IPs" to the hosts file on your server, /etc/hosts on *nix based systems, will increase backup speeds by reducing DNS queries.

The /etc/hosts file on each Solaris and Linux NetWorker host must contain an entry for the IPv4 loopback address. For example, on Linux the /etc/hosts file contains the following entries by default: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

On a Linux NetWorker Server, the NetWorker daemons cannot start when the IP address 127.0.0.1 is inaccessible on the loopback interface. This requirement is true even in an IPv6-only environment

Windows

(Optional) Adding the NetWorker Servers listed in "NetWorker Backup Server IPs" to the hosts file on your server, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows, will increase backup speeds by reducing DNS queries.
On Windows hosts, NetWorker does not require changes to the hosts file. It is recommendedthat you use the default hosts file settings for the IPv4 loopback address on Windows hosts.