Port assignments

To support fully the Ion Torrent™ Server and multiple Ion Torrent™ sequencers, remote monitoring must be provided using Axeda™ Remote System Monitoring software enabled, and must be able to reverse SSH into the boxes. This requirement means that the multiple sequencers and the Ion Torrent™ Server must be connected to the Internet with outbound connections that are permitted on the following ports.

Table 1.

Port

Required

Use

22

Yes

Start reverse SSH tunnel for remote troubleshooting.

80

Yes

Download updates from http://updates.iontorrent.com and http://us.archive.ubuntu.com.

123

Yes

(UDP) NTP access to the Internet, incoming and outgoing.

443

Yes

Enable sending of basic status information to the remote monitoring server.

The IonReporterUploader plugin also requires port 443 to transfer data to Ion Reporter™ Software.

5432

No

Remote access to the PostgreSQL database.