Changing the TCP port for the Men&Mice Update Service
The Men&Mice update service is listening by default on port 4603/TCP
. Although the port 4603/TCP
is reserved for the Men&Mice Update service in the IANA database, there might be a different software already running on that port.
The TCP port for the updater service can be changed. It must be changed on the mmupdate
service and also on Men&Mice Central (mmcentral
). All remote servers must listen on the same TCP port for update messages from Men&Mice Central. It is not possible to run the Men&Mice Update service on different ports for different servers.
Stop both services, the Men&Mice Central service and the remote Men&Mice updater service.
On the machine running the Men&Mice Update service, append the following line to the Men&Mice Updater’s
preferences.cfg
file (create the file if it does not exist):
<Arguments value="-p 12345" />
Where 12345
is the TCP port number the Men&Mice update service should use.
Start the Men&Mice Update service and check that the process in listening on the new port (using
netstat -na
orlsof -i
).On the machine running the Men&Mice Central service, append the following line to the Men&Mice Central
preferences.cfg
file (create the file if it does not exist):
<UpdateAgentPortNumber value="12345" />
Where 12345
is the TCP port number the Men&Mice update service is using on the remote system(s).
Start the Men&Mice Central service.