Understand Network Protocols and Ports Used by RightScale
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Network Architecture Overview
Network Protocols Used by RightScale
| Number | Traffic Type | Network Protocol | Description of Service | Traffic Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monitoring | collectd (udp/3011) | Graphical Monitoring Performance and utilization metrics. Monitoring data is sent from the instance to RightScale. | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
| 2 | NTP | NTP (udp/123) | Network Time Synchronization Cloud-instance system clock sync; avoids data loss and consistency issues. | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
| 3 | Design Assets & Packages | HTTP(S) | RightScale Mirror Service Chef cookbook and RightScript attachment downloads (HTTPS); OS package downloads (HTTP) | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
| 4 | RightNet | HTTPS | RightNet Routers Communication between RightScale Dashboard and RightLink management agent that's used for instance management. | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
| 5 | Instance API Traffic | HTTPS | RightScale API Endpoint (for Cloud) API requests from the instance. Examples include attaching volumes and taking snapshots. | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
| 6 | User API Traffic | HTTPS | RightScale API Endpoint (for User) Customer facing API traffic for automation and management tasks. | User to RightScale |
| 7 | User UI Access | HTTPS | RightScale Cloud Management Dashboard Customer access to the RightScale Dashboard web interface. | User to RightScale |
| 8 | Cookbook Scraping | HTTP(S), SSH | Repositories Access to the customers chef repository, from the Metadata scraper. See | Ingress RightScale to Customer Network |
| 9 | Cloud Controller API(s) | HTTP(S) | Cloud API Endpoint API requests from RightScale's Cloud Gateway to the private cloud's API endpoint. (For OpenStack and CloudStack) | Ingress RightScale to Cloud |
| 10 | wstunnel | HTTPS | RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere (RCA-V) API requests from RightScale to RCA-V (RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere). Tunneled over WebSockets in order to avoid making inbound connections to the customer datacenter. (For VMware vSphere) | Egress Cloud to RightScale |
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