Service/
function
Purpose Destination port
(default)
Configurable via
DNS Requests to a DNS server. 53 UDP System > DNS
External manager Outbound connection to an external
manager, for example Cisco TMS.
80 TCP System > External
manager
NTP System time updates. 123 UDP System > Time
LDAP account
authentication
LDAP queries for login account
authentication.
389 / 636 TCP Users > LDAP
configuration
TMS Provisioning
Extension
Connection to Cisco TMSPE services. 443 TCP System > TMS
Provisioning Extension
services
Incident reporting Sending application failure details. 443 TCP Maintenance >
Diagnostics > Incident
reporting > Configuration
Third-party FindMe /
User Policy server
Outbound connection to a third-party
FindMe / User Policy server.
443 TCP Applications > FindMe
Remote logging Sending messages to the remote
syslog server.
514 UDP
6514 TCP
Maintenance > Logging
Neighbors (H.323) H.323 connection to a neighbor zone. 1710 UDP Configuration > Zones
Neighbors (SIP) SIP connection to a neighbor zone. 5060 / 5061 TCP Configuration > Zones
Traversal zone (H.323) H.323 connection to a traversal
server.
6001 UDP Configuration > Zones
Traversal zone (SIP) SIP connection to a traversal server. 7001 TCP Configuration > Zones
Endpoint (H.323) Endpoint listening port 1720 TCP Defined by endpoint’s
registration
Endpoint (SIP) Endpoint listening port 5060 / 5061
TCP / UDP
Defined by endpoint’s
registration
TURN media relay Range of ports available for TURN
media relay.
24000 – 29999
UDP **
Configuration > Traversal
> TURN (on VCS
Expressway)
Table 8: Remote listening ports
** The default TURN relay media port range of 24000 – 29999 applies to new installations of X8.1 or later. The
previous default range of 60000 – 61799 still applies to earlier releases that have upgraded to X8.1.
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