OPSWAT Central Management cannot start due to port conflict issues

As of version 7.10, by default, OPSWAT Central Management requires ports 9000, 9005, 9009m 9026, and 27017 to be available.

On Windows, the tray icon can show a notification reporting possible port conflict issues when starting OPSWAT Central Management.

On all supported operating systems, port conflict issues are also reported in log files.

• Windows: ProgramData\OPSWAT/Central\Logs\powershell_out.txt

• Linux: /var/log/ocm/ocn_<current date>.log

One solution is to ensure that programs occupying the aforementioned ports are closed when starting OPSWAT Central Management.

A second solution is to change the ports OPSWAT Central Management uses as a workaround. Each port requires changing two configuration files. The first file is the main configuration which coordinates the services.

• On Windows, this file is located at ProgramData\OPSWAT\Central\config.properties.

• On Linux, this file is located at /usr/lib/ocm/set-port.sh.

The content should be similar to the below example:

tomcat_port=9009

mongo_port=27017

memcached_port=9005

nginx_port=9000

up_port=9026

Edit the port number as needed to solve the port conflicts.

The second configuration file to edit is listed below for each port.

Tomcat port (9009 by default):

• On Windows: Program Files\OPSWAT\Central\tomcat\conf\server.xml

• On Linux: /opt/ocm/tomcat/conf/server.xml

Find the configuration entry containing the current port used by Tomcat and edit it to match the main configuration file.

<Connector port="9009" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

               connectionTimeout="20000" maxThreads="250" compression="on" URIEncoding="UTF-8" 

               redirectPort="9443" sendReasonPhrase="true"/>

Mongodb port (27017 by default):

• On Windows: ProgramData\OPSWAT\Central\mongod.conf

• On Linux: /opt/ocm/mongo/mongod.conf

Find the configuration entry containing the current port used by Mongodb and edit it to match the main configuration file.

net:

  port: 27017

Nginx port (9000) Port 9000 is already supported to be configurable prior to version 7.10. Please follow the guide here.

Up port (9026 by default):

• On Windows: Program Files\OPSWAT\Central\nginx\conf\nginx.conf

• On Linux: /opt/ocm/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Find the configuration entry containing the current port used to determine OPSWAT Central Management's status and edit it to match the main configuration file.

server {

        listen 9026;