Security

Securing communications between DC Netscope and DC Scope

Enabling HTTPS

Go to the URL of the DC Netscope agent you have entered in the DC Scope settings, you will be taken to a page which looks like the screenshot below:

Click on the activate button to the right of the Ssl enabled column to activate HTTPS. After a few seconds, you will be redirected to the same URL, but this time on port 5443.

In the DC Scope settings, you now need to change the DC Netscope agent URL to port 5443.

Adding a security token for the API

Go to the DC Netscope agent URL which you have entered in the DC Scope settings, you will be taken to a page which looks like the screenshot below:

Click on the generate button to the right of the Token column to generate a token for the DC Netscope API.

In the DC Scope parameters, you must now add the API token to the Token for the API.

Restricting communication ports between DC Netscope and ESXis

It is possible to restrict the number of communication ports allowed between ESXis servers and the DC Netscope virtual machine. According to our tests, DC Netscope only requires the following ports:

• port 9000 (UDP) between ESXis and DC Netscope