Opening Port 5555 for HP Data Protector

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Issue

Unable to open port 5555 for HP Data Protector service despite iptables and SElinux both being disabled.

Resolution

Installed "xinetd" and ran "service xinetd start".

Root Cause

xinetd was not installed

Diagnostic Steps

  1. Disable iptables and disable SElinux to make sure the port wasn't being blocked.

  2. Add

    omni  5555/tcp # DATA-PROTECTOR"to /etc/services in place of

cisco-snat 5555/tcp # Cisco Stateful NAT
cisco-snat 5555/udp # Cisco Stateful NAT

  1. Add the following line to /etc/hosts, where 10.25.0.0 is first two octets of the local IP address and 255.255.0.0 is the desired netmask.

    inet: 127.0.0.1, 10.25.0.0/255.255.0.0

  2. Ran nmap against localhost to check for open ports with the following output:

    [root@localhost sysconfig]# nmap -sT localhost

    Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-06-21 16:12 EDT
    Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
    Host is up (0.00038s latency).
    Hostname localhost resolves to 2 IPs. Only scanned 127.0.0.1
    Not shown: 994 closed ports
    PORT  STATE SERVICE
    22/tcp   open  ssh
    25/tcp   open  smtp
    80/tcp   open  http
    111/tcp  open  rpcbind
    631/tcp  open  ipp
    2049/tcp open  nfs

    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.07 seconds

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