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

Internal

Portal definition
User management and synchronization
OS4X Portal daemon
shared storage

External

OS4X client daemon
Portal configuration
shared storage

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)

OS4X Portal

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