OGG DIRECTOR ,CAN'T MONITOR THE GG INSTANCE ON A REMOTE COMPUTER

Question

I login into the oracle goldengate director administrator tool,and set a datasource for a gg instance on a remote computers.The manger port is 7809,I click the "check connection" button,it shows the connections was successful.But if I want to monitor this datasource status on the "monitor agent" page,it shows:
"monitor active" is" true", but the "manager is alive" is "N/A".On the remote computer,the windows firewall is working,and the port 7809 is set to can be permitted.If I shutdown the firewall on the remote computer,the "manager is alive" shows 'true'.But closing the firewall is a very dangerouse thing.What can I do?Does the ogg directore needs another port to be opened except port 7809?

Answer 1

You mean turn off the firewall is a dangerous thing, not closing. The Manager IP address and port number are the only required parameters required for Director Server to connect to the GGSCI instances. You need to have 7809 (or whatever port you're using for the Manager) open. Are you on Linux for the instances? The port can be opened using iptables. Here is an example of how to do that:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-rhel-linux-open-port-using-iptables/