Port Communication Requirements

Active Directory

For EmpowerID to communicate with Active Directory environments, the following ports must be open:

• 135/TCP RPC
• 137/UDP NetBIOS
• 138/UDP NetBIOS
• 139/TCP NetBIOS
• 389/TCP/UDP LDAP
• 636/TCP LDAP SSL
• 3268/TCP LDAP GC
• 3269/TCP LDAP GC SSL
• 53/TCP/UDP DNS
• 88/TCP/UDP Kerberos
• 445/TCP SMB
• 123/UDP NTP

Internal EmpowerID Communications

The EmpowerID Management Console Windows desktop client requires the following ports be open:

• HTTPS/SSL: port 443 TCP

EmpowerID server to server communications require the following ports be open:

• HTTPS/TLS: port 443 TCP

EmpowerID server to SQL Database communications require the following ports be open:

• Microsoft SQL Server: port 1433 TCP

The below two images depict the EmpowerID Communications and Connectivity architecture. The first shows the architecture without EmpowerID WAM/Reverse Proxy, while the second shows the architecture with EmpowerID WAM/Reverse Proxy.

Figure 1: EmpowerID Communications and Connectivity Architecture

Figure 2: EmpowerID Communications and Connectivity architecture with WAM/Reverse Proxy module