Secure your data and working environment

Customize the security of your cluster to secure your data and working environment.

Actions to secure your data and working environment

Open ports to communicate across firewalls

If your cluster extends across the Internet securely, the server has to communicate with other hosts in the cluster across firewalls. Platform Analytics uses the following ports to communicate with other hosts in the cluster:


Port name

Default port number

Additional information

PIEM_PORT

9091

Internal port for the event manager. Used for receiving events from Platform Analytics components. Configuration is not required,

PIAM_PORT

9092

Internal port for the automation manager. Used for receiving events from Platform Analytics components. Configuration is not required.

Remoting server port (asynchronous data loading mode only)

9093

Internal port for the remoting server. Used for comsmunicating between the remoting server and the remoting node. Configuration is not required. This port is only used if you enabled the asynchronous data loading mode.


  1. Edit ANALYTICS_TOP/conf/pi.conf to open the appropriate ports.
  2. Restart the Platform Analytics Console to start communicating with the new ports.

Modify the database password

If you modify the password that Platform Analytics data soruces use to connect to the database, you must update Platform Analytics to use the new password.

  1. Log into the Platform Analytics Console.
  2. In the navigation tree, select Data Sources.
  3. In the right pane, right-click ReportDB and select Edit Data Source.

    The Data Source Properties window displays.

  4. Specify the new password.
  5. To verify the database connection, click Test.
  6. To save your changes, click OK.