A range of TCP ports, reserved for security purposes but not used for communication.
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Value |
A comma-separated list of port ranges that identifies the restricted TCP ports. |
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Default |
Default: 6666-6669 |
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How to set |
During initialization of the watcher service. See Configuring watcher initialization: Windows or Configuring watcher initialization: Linux. |
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Usage |
Change the default when you need the ports for other purposes. |
On each Speech Suite host running the watcher service, the operating system automatically assigns the TCP ports needed for communication between the watcher and the Speech Suite services. This parameter specifies ports that should never be used, and the watcher pre-emptively reserves the ports so they appear occupied. This prevents the operating system from assigning them. The purpose is to avoid conflicts with any firewall software (or any other software) you might be running on your hosts: because firewall software typically blocks communication on these ports, the watcher cannot use them successfully. If you need any of these ports for other purposes (for example, if a port is needed for some third-party software), you can set this parameter to an empty string or change its range.
For example, this configuration reserves 5 ports:
watcher.RestrictedTCPPorts=6671,7072-7075
