Introducing Arcserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Agents › Client Agent › Adding and Configuring the Client Agents › UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X Client Agent Configuration › Common Agent Configuration File for UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X › Port Address Configuration

Port Address Configuration

The default port for TCP and UDP is 6051. The TCP port is used for communication and data transfer between the backup server and the client agent. The Backup Manager user interface uses the UDP port to browse hosts.

If you want to configure either the TCP port or the UDP port, or both, you must modify the configuration files on both the Arcserve Backup server and the client agent so that their values match.

The names of the configuration files are as follows:

• CAPortConfig.cfg—for Arcserve Backup Windows servers
• agent.cfg—for client agents

Note: See UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X Client Agent Control Files for important information about the UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X configuration files.

This example shows the Windows server configuration file (CAPortConfig.cfg):

#Hostname  IP address (optional)  TCP port   UDP port
#myhost    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx        6051       6051

This example shows the syntax for the client agent configuration file (agent.cfg):

[36]
NAME           ABcmagt
HOME           /opt/Arcserve/ABcmagt
TCP_PORT       7090
UDP_PORT       7085