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LEM Connector Updates

It appears when using the console for auto-updates of LEM connectors, it's trying to go out port 80 to Akamai CDN.  Is it Solarwinds recommendation to allow the server outbound port 80 to any destination or are we able to lock it down to some specific destination IP's in our firewalls?

My preference would be to be able to put in an IP or small range for outbound port 80 traffic.

Regards,

Todd

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember

    The manual process includes the URL: Manually applying connector updates using the CMC interface - which is downloads.solarwinds.com. That said, SolarWinds uses akamai for downloads (which is why you're seeing the connection out to akamai), so for the IPs we'd have to rely on them. Unfortunately, akamai doesn't publish the IPs, so your best bet is to use downloads.solarwinds.com, or you'll have to find and allow essentially ALL of akamai's owned IP addresses (which is apparently upwards of 200k IPs!).