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Ports scanned or used by Lansweeper

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Use this page when you're configuring firewalls for Lansweeper Classic. Each section covers one connection, names the machine the ports must be open on, and lists the ports involved.

Sections are grouped by what's connecting to what: your Lansweeper components talking to each other, your scanning servers reaching the assets they scan, and outbound connections to Lansweeper cloud services.

To check the status of your ports, see the Ports Status pro tip.

Lansweeper components

Web console access

Open these ports on the machine hosting the web console.

Port Purpose
HTTP port specified in the Lansweeper installer Web console access
HTTPS port specified in the Lansweeper installer Web console access over SSL, when the default web server (IIS Express) is used

When using the alternate IIS web server, configure an HTTPS port directly in IIS Manager.

Lansweeper service and web console to the SQL Server database

Open these ports on the machine hosting your SQL Server instance.

Port Purpose
1433/TCP SQL Server traffic

Which ports you need to open depends on how your instance is configured. Port 1433 is common for SQL Server traffic, but additional ports may be needed. See Microsoft's guide on configuring the Windows Firewall to allow SQL Server access for details.

Scanning targets

To Active Directory domain controllers

Open these ports on your domain controllers.

Port Purpose
389/TCP LDAP, or another LDAP(S) port of your choice
88 Kerberos, if Kerberos is enabled or enforced

To scanned Windows computers

Open these ports on the Windows computers you scan.

Port Purpose
135/TCP DCOM, to establish the initial WMI session
139/TCP NetBIOS Session Service
445/TCP SMB
1025-5000 or 49152-65535 Random ports used to send the WMI data

By default, Windows sends WMI data over random ports, as explained in Microsoft's guide to connecting to WMI on a remote computer. You have three options:

  1. Configure your firewalls to allow all WMI traffic. Windows Firewall has a remote administration exception you can enable, as described in configure Windows Firewall for agentless scanning of computers. For third-party firewalls, consult your firewall's documentation.
  2. Configure a fixed WMI port and allow traffic through it.
  3. If you can't allow WMI traffic through your firewalls, scan those computers with the LsAgent or LsPush scanning agent instead. Neither requires firewall reconfiguration.

To scanned Linux, Unix, and Mac computers

Open this port on the computers you scan.

Port Purpose
22/TCP SSH, or a custom SSH port of your choice

To scanned VMware servers

Open this port on the VMware servers you scan.

Port Purpose
443/TCP HTTPS

To scanned network devices

Open these ports on the network devices you scan. Lansweeper also uses ICMP ping.

Port Purpose
21/TCP FTP
22/TCP SSH, or a custom SSH port of your choice
23/TCP Telnet
25/TCP SMTP
80/TCP HTTP
135/TCP EPMAP
137/UDP NetBIOS Name Service
139/TCP NetBIOS Session Service
161 SNMP
443/TCP HTTPS
445/TCP SMB
1400/TCP Sonos devices HTTP
1900/TCP SSDP, UPnP
1900/UDP SSDP, UPnP
5060 SIP, or a custom SIP port of your choice
5353/TCP mDNS, DNS-SD
5353/UDP mDNS, Bonjour, DNS-SD
5985/TCP WinRM without SSL, for Windows cluster log and Hyper-V log scanning
5986/TCP WinRM with SSL, for Windows cluster log and Hyper-V log scanning
8008/TCP Chromecast
8080/TCP HTTP
8443/TCP HTTPS
9100/TCP JetDirect
16992/TCP Intel vPro HTTP
16993/TCP Intel vPro HTTPS
62078/TCP iTunes sync port, for iOS device identification

Scanning agents

Scanned computers to the Lansweeper service

Applies when LsAgent or LsPush sends data directly to your Lansweeper server. Open this port in the firewall of the scanning server, meaning the server hosting the Lansweeper Server service.

Port Purpose
9524/TCP Direct agent connection, or a custom port of your choice

You can choose a custom port in the Service Options section of the Configuration > Server Options menu.

Scanned computers to the Network Discovery hub

Applies when the IT Agent (portable) is used for discovery with a direct connection. Open this port in the firewall of the Lansweeper Network Discovery hub, meaning the server hosting the hub service.

Port Purpose
59525/TCP Direct IT Agent connection, or a custom port of your choice

To use a custom port, change every instance of 59525 in C:\Program Files\Lansweeper Network Discovery\hub\appsettings.json and restart the Lansweeper Network Discovery hub service.

Outbound connections to Lansweeper cloud services

Scanning server to the LsAgent relay server

Required only if you scan computers over the internet with LsAgent. Allow this outbound connection from your Lansweeper scanning server.

Destination Port Purpose
lsagentrelay.lansweeper.com 443/TCP Retrieve data scanned by LsAgent from the cloud relay server

For more on how the relay works, see Introduction to LsAgent for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Linking to Lansweeper Platform

If you link your installation to a Lansweeper Platform site, your web server and sync server both need internet access. See cloud linking requirements for the prerequisite checks, and Lansweeper features that access the internet for the URLs involved.