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  2. Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup
  4. Pre-deployment requirements
  5. Required network ports
Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide

Required network ports

Open the following ports to allow communication between NetBackup components and Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup:

Table: Network ports

Source

Target

Ports

Purpose

Direction

NetBackup primary server

Media server (Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup)

1556, 13724

Core control communication (PBX, vnetd)

Two-way

Media server

NetBackup primary server

1556, 13724

Job status and catalog updates

Two-way

NetBackup primary server

Client

1556, 13724

Policy push and job initiation

Two-way

Client

NetBackup primary server

1556, 13724

Registration and heartbeat

Two-way

Media server

Client

13701, 13782, 13783

Backup and restore control services

Two-way

Client

Media server

1556, 13724

Session initiation (Client Direct)

Two-way

Client

Media server

10000 - 65535 (or custom range)

Backup data transfer

Two-way

Media server

Client

10000 - 65535 (or custom range)

Data streaming

Two-way

Admin or user

NetBackup primary server

443, 8443

Web UI and REST API access

Two-way

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