ePolicy Orchestrator port requirements for firewall traffic

Technical Articles ID: KB66797
Last Modified: 4/22/2021

Environment

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.x
McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x

Summary

Recent updates to this article:

Date	Update
April 22, 2021	Changed HTTPS back to HTTP. The ePO Console does not provide an HTTPS URL as an update source.
March 30, 2021	Changed HTTP to HTTPS.
February 12, 2021	McAfee Agent 5.5.x End of Life removed and latest MA supported versions added.
February 14, 2020	Updated title.
February 10, 2020	Footnote added to Remote Agent Handlers table.

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The following tables display the ports needed by ePO for communication through a firewall.

For this article:

Bidirectional - A connection is initiated from either direction.
Inbound - Connection initiated by a remote system.
Outbound - Connection initiated by the local system.

Port	Default	Description	Traffic direction
Agent-server communication port	80	TCP port that the McAfee ePO server service uses to receive requests from agents.	Inbound connection to the Agent Handler and the McAfee ePO server from the McAfee Agent. Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server from the Remote Agent Handler.
Agent-server communication secure port Software Manager, Product Compatibility List, and License Manager port	443	TCP port that the McAfee ePO server service uses to receive requests from agents and Remote Agent Handlers. TCP port that the McAfee ePO server's Software Manager uses to connect to McAfee. TCP port that the McAfee ePO server uses to connect to the McAfee software updates server (s-download.mcafee.com), McAfee license server (lc.mcafee.com), and McAfee Product Compatibility List (epo.mcafee.com).	Inbound connection to the Agent Handler and the McAfee ePO server from the McAfee Agent. Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server from the Remote Agent Handler. Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server to McAfee servers.
Agent wake-up communication port SuperAgent repository port	8081	TCP port that agents use to receive agent wake-up requests from the McAfee ePO server or Agent Handler. TCP port that the SuperAgents configured as repositories that are used to receive content from the McAfee ePO server during repository replication, and to serve content to client systems.	Inbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler to the McAfee Agent. Inbound connection from client systems to SuperAgents configured as repositories.
Agent broadcast communication port	8082	UDP port that the SuperAgents use to forward messages from the ePO server/Agent Handler.	Outbound connection from the SuperAgents to other McAfee Agent.
Console-to-application server communication port	8443	TCP port that the ePO Application Server service uses to allow web browser UI access.	Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server from the ePO console.
Client-to-server authenticated communication port	8444	TCP Port that the Agent Handler uses to communicate with the McAfee ePO server to get obtain information (such as LDAP servers).	Outbound connection from Remote Agent Handlers to the McAfee ePO server.
SQL Server TCP port	1433	TCP port used to communicate with the SQL Server. This port is specified or determined automatically during the setup process.	Outbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler to the SQL Server.
SQL Server UDP port	1434	UDP port used to request the TCP port that the SQL instance hosting the ePO database is using.	Outbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler to the SQL Server.
LDAP server port	389	TCP port used to retrieve LDAP information from Active Directory servers.	Outbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler to an LDAP server.
SSL LDAP server port	636	TCP port used to retrieve LDAP information from Active Directory servers.	Outbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler to an LDAP server.
SMB Windows domain controller port	445	TCP port used for ePO console logon when authenticating Active Directory users.	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server to the domain controller (Active Directory) server.
Syslog server port (optional)	6514	Default port for Syslog using TLS: only needed if syslog forwarding is configured.	Outbound from the McAfee ePO server or Agent Handlers to registered syslog server.

ePO (Ports/Traffic Quick Reference)

McAfee ePO server

Default port	Protocol	Traffic direction
80	TCP	Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server
389	TCP	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
443	TCP	Inbound/outbound connection to/from the McAfee ePO server
445	SMB	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
636	TCP	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
1433	TCP	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
1434	UDP	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
8081	TCP	Outbound connection from the McAfee ePO server
8443	TCP	Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server
8444	TCP	Inbound connection to the McAfee ePO server

Remote Agent Handlers (one or more)

Default port	Protocol	Traffic direction
80	TCP	Inbound/outbound connection to or from the Agent Handler ¹
389	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
443	TCP	Inbound/outbound connection to/from the Agent Handler
636	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
1433	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
1434	UDP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
8081	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
8443	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler
8444	TCP	Outbound connection from the Agent Handler

¹ If the ASCI secure port is disabled from ePO Server settings page, it uses the ASCI port as default. The default ASCI and ASCI Secure port details are:

ASCI port is 80
ASCI secure port is 443

McAfee Agent

Default port	Protocol	Traffic direction
80	TCP	Outbound connection to the ePO server or Agent Handler (MA 4.x only) ¹
443	TCP	Outbound connection to the ePO server or Agent Handler (MA 4.x and 5.x)
8081	TCP	Inbound connection from the ePO server and Agent Handler. If the agent is a SuperAgent Repository, inbound connection from other McAfee Agent.
8082	UDP	Inbound connection to agents. Inbound and outbound connection from and to SuperAgents.
8083	UDP	RelayServer discovery for version 4.8 agents

¹ Port 80 is used by MA 4.x to connect to ePO/AH as a repository for MA tasks.

SQL Server

Default port	Protocol	Traffic direction
1433	TCP	Inbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler
1434	UDP	Inbound connection from the ePO server or Agent Handler

McAfee Updates

Default port	Protocol	Traffic direction
21	TCP	Effective May 31, 2019, the service provider that McAfee uses to host our FTP service will no longer provide FTP capabilities.
80	TCP	Outbound from the McAfee ePO server to http://update.nai.com/products
443	TCP	Outbound from the McAfee ePO server to epo.mcafee.com NOTE: These URLs are not accessible in browsers.
80	TCP	Outbound from the McAfee ePO server to s-download.mcafee.com

Agent deployment on Linux uses port 22 (bidirectional). Agent deployment on Windows client uses port 445.

Affected Products

Configuration
ePolicy Orchestrator 5.9 (EOL)
ePolicy Orchestrator 5.10.x
Getting Started
McAfee Agent 5.7.x
McAfee Agent 5.6.x

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