By default Control-M Self Service and all the other web services connect to Port 18080 Enterprise Manger Tomcat Web Server. How can it be changed to use another port

Knowledge Article

Article Number

000309832

Old Article Number

000100894

Article Type

Solutions to a Product Problem

Title

By default Control-M Self Service and all the other web services connect to Port 18080 Enterprise Manger Tomcat Web Server. How can it be changed to use another port

Summary

By default Control-M web services provided by the Enterprise Manager tomcat server listen on port 18080, cow can it be changed to use another port?

Product

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

Component

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

Applies to

Control-M/Enterprise Manager up to version 9.0.19 FP200
Starting with 9.0.20 , only HTTPS protocol is supported .

Problem

By default Control-M Enterprise Manger tomcat web server listens on port 18080, how can it be changed to use another port?

Cause

Need to use another port.

Solution

To configure tomcat to listen on a different port:

Change the web server HTTP port to 18080 as an example using the manage_webserver utility.
- Log on to the Control-M/Enterprise Manager Server
- Run: manage_webserver -action update_ports HTTP_PORT=18080
- Restart the web server

Additional Information:
- It is not possible to set a port below 1024 for these are reserved port range on the operating System by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority).
- On Linux and UNIX system, ports numbers below 1024 are privileged ports and are reserved for programs running as root.
- Do check out this page:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml

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