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Firewall Policies and SnapCenter Plugins

tduran12165 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:16:06 GMT

All,

We implement Firewall Policies on all of our Netapp Clusters, as well as use SnapCenter in our environment.

Would you know if all Windows hosts in SnapCenter need to be added to the firewall policies allowing mgmt access for it's various functions? I assume yes, but wanted to double check.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Firewall Policies and SnapCenter Plugins

Fabian1993 — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:22:29 GMT

To communicate with the SVM/Cluster and also from the Snapcenter to the Host Plugin you have to allow various ports.

Here is a Table:

https://docs.netapp.com/ocsc-42/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.ocsc-isg%2FGUID-6B5E4464-FE9A-4D2A-B526-E6F4298C9550.html

Re: Firewall Policies and SnapCenter Plugins

aladd — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 05:06:52 GMT

This would need to be done from all clients in the SnapCenter environment, as plugin hosts (e.g. SQL hosts) get a token to be able to communicate to the SVM on which its data is stored.

Using the table as provided by @Fabian1993 to set firewall policies can help.

Re: Firewall Policies and SnapCenter Plugins

tduran12165 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:52:25 GMT

Thank you, @Fabian1993, and @aladd, appreciate the feedback! 🙂