How to: Deploy a Distribution Package on a different Http ports than 80/443 ports from a Preferred Server configured with a Replicator Server

Environment:

LDMS 9.5+

Question:

For security or monitoring reasons, you need to download the Packages on a specific port other than the default Http port 80 or Https port 443 from a preferred server. But you also use a Replicator Server to copy data from the Source Data server to the Preferred Servers.

How can I set that up?

In that case, you need to configure 2 preferred servers with the same server; 1 which will receive the data from the source through the replicator and another 1 which will dispatch the data across the clients on the selected IP address LAN through a specific port.

Here is the setup details;

1- Source Server: Hostname "CORE95SP2" - where the data are stored (In this example; on the Core Server on http://CORE95SP2/landesk/files/TESTREP1/)

2- Preferred Server dedicated to deploy data to the clients: Hostname "CORE95SP2RS" with 8093 port added

3- Preferred Server dedicated to receive the replicated data from the Source server: Hostname "CORE95SP2RS"

4- Replicator Server: Hostname "WIN7PROSP1"

5- IP Address range of Nodes concerned: 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254

6- Port: 8093

• Configuration of the Source Server and the Preferred Server dedicated to deploy data to the clients:

Follow instructions given in article How to: Deploy a Distribution Package on a different Http ports than 80/443 ports from a Preferred Server

• Configuration of the 2nd Preferred Server dedicated to receive the replicated data from the Source server:

a- Go on the LDMS Console > Tools > Distribution > Content replication / Preferred servers

b- On Content replication - Preferred servers (Targets), click on New to create a new preferred server configuration

c- On the tab "Configuration",

• Input the server name; In this example CORE95SP2RS
• Input the Read-Only credential; In this example sebdomain\administrator

e- On the tab "Sources", select the Source server; In this example CORE95SP2

f- On the tab "Write credentials", input the Credentials and click on "Test Credentials..." button to test the permission rights

g- Click on the "Save" button to record your configuration (see below a printscreen of the configuration)

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• Configuration of the Replicator server:

a- Go on the LDMS Console > Tools > Distribution > Content replication / Preferred servers

b- On Content replication - Replicators, click on New to create a new Replicator server configuration

c- On the tab "Identification", select the Replicator Server; in this example WIN7PROSP1

d- On the tab "Preferred servers (Targets)", select the Preferred server; in this example CORE95SP2RS

e- Click on the "Save" button to record your configuration (see below a printscreen of the configuration)

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A way to check if the data are indeed downloaded on the specific port on the preferred server:

You can use Process Monitor tool from SysInternal (see Process Monitor) from the Client. Here is below a printscreen of what you may see on this trace;

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