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Configuring the Firewall with RHEL

This topic provides guidelines for setting up the firewall on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL7) systems for use with the Xpress Insight software. A full list of the network ports that need configuring is provided in Port Configuration for Firewall Configurations.

The following commands open up the most common subset of required ports on RHEL7 systems:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-ports
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8860/tcp --permanent
systemctl restart firewalld.service 
firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-ports