Portals

Product purpose

OS4X Portal is a portal solution for transferring files between an internal and external server for a secure data exchange with external communication partners, who typically don't have an own solution for managed data transfers.

Definition

• OS4X Portal server: a server in the DMZ
• OS4X Portal daemon: software handling portal jobs, running in the internal network zone

Components

OS4X Portal consists of several components being used:

• Special portal license
• Transfer plugins and plugin group configuration
• Portal definition
• Shared storage
• Job management

Internal

• User management and synchronization
• OS4X Portal daemon

External

• OS4X client daemon

Required communication ports

For a functional OS4X Portal communication, the following communication protocols needs to be enabled between internal to external zone:

• shared storage, like:
  • NFS3 with ports 111 (TCP and UDP) and 2049 (TCP and UDP)
  • NFS4 with port 2049 (TCP)
  • CIFS with UDP ports 137 and 138, and TCP ports 139 and 445
• http(s) communication via a defined port (TCP ports 80 or 443 by default)