Which ports does Webi Rich CLient use to connect to Universe etc..

Hello together,
we have the problem that we cannot run Rich Client from computers outside our network - so which ports does webi Rich Client use to connect to BO Serverl?.
It will always say universe not found. Login to rich client and everything else is possible.
It's not an authorisations problem, inside the network people can run the programs fine.
Thank you

Hi,
i assume you have enable CMS port on the firewall, apart from this you need to enable IFRS and Connection Server port also.
Regards,
Ramu.
Edited by: Gowda Timma Ramu on Oct 14, 2010 4:06 PM

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