Installation & Maintenance Manual 258 Document #: LTRT-40111
Mediant 1000B SBA
A.5 Windows Update Policy
Note the following in reference to Windows Update Policy:
AudioCodes is obligated to test and approve all SBA Cumulative Updates (CU) within
1 month of Microsoft releasing them.
AudioCodes ships all SBAs with the Windows Update service disabled as default
(Never check for updates (not recommended).
AudioCodes does not test (as a rule) every Windows Update released by Microsoft.
In case customers wish to enable the Windows Update service- Install Updates
automatically (recommended) (according to their corporate update policy), they can
verify the updates, based upon Microsoft’s recommendations.
A.6 Firewall Rules
This section describes the firewall rules that are used in the SBA deployment. These
include the following:
Default SBA internal firewall rules (see below)
SBA network firewall settings (see Section A.6.2)
Note: Many firewall rules are required for normal SBA operation. The listing is extensive and
therefore not all of the relevant firewall rules are listed in the document. To retrieve the full
list of the firewall rules – open the scw_sba_W14 XML file with the SCW tool and open the
firewall.
A.6.1 Default SBA Internal Firewall Rules
The table below describes the default SBA internal firewall rules.
Table A-5: Firewall Rules
Firewall Rule Description
Protocol
Keyword
Direction
Program/
Service
Local Ports
Remote
Ports
Allow inbound
connections for
service:
RTCMEDSRV for
protocol: TCP
_ TCP Inbound RTCMEDS
RV
_ _
Allow inbound
connections for
service:
SQLBrowser for
protocol: UDP
_ UDP Inbound SQLBrowse
r
_ _
Allow inbound
connections for
service:
MSSQL$RTCLOCA
L for protocol: TCP
_ TCP Inbound MSSQL$R
TCLOCAL
_ _