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Accessing repositories accross firewalls

I manage databases in a few locations that are not able to see each other through firewalls. It appears that I would need to setup multiple repositories, as well as multiple clients in each zone to connect to the repositories.

I doubt that I could get the ports opened up, but what are the TCP/UDP ports that I need to have open so that the client can speak with the repository server?

Is it possible to grab the data from one repository without using the client, transfer the data to a zone as a file(s) where I do have the client, and then read that data with the client?
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  • Nigel Morse
    You'd need multiple repositories (one behind each firewall) as we use WMI to talk to the servers, which itself uses DCOM which doesn't like firewalls (and especially not NAT).

    There is some information that MS have here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389290(VS.85).aspx but if the servers themselves use NAT'd addresses then DCOM doesn't work as it encodes the server address in the packets.

    As for the client/repository connection you can chose which port to run the service on so that's a little easier to try and get opened.

    With 1.0 I'm afraid there's no way to move the data around.
    Nigel Morse
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