Patch Management port requirements

Last Modified

Tue Jul 07 15:33 GMT 2020

Description

  • This article provides information on ports used by Patch Management, especially if a Probe is separated by a firewall.

Environment

  • N-able N-central
  • Patch Management

Solution

  • Port 15000 TCP/UDP - This port must be be opened to reach the cache on the probe and can also affect downloads for the probe and detection.
  • Port 10004 -N-able N-central Agents must be able to communicate with a Probe on the network over port 10004 in order for the Probe caching of software updates to function properly.
  • Port 80/443 - N-able N-central Agents must be able to reach out to the Windows Update servers via these ports in addition to those above.
  • For a list of URLs that may be needed on a firewall allow list for Windows Update the WSUS configuration article can help provide the necessary addresses as the WUA detection uses the same URLs, which can be found here.