What is port 2005 being used for?

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  • 29-Oct-2015
  • 29-Oct-2015

Environment

NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager 6.0

Situation

Port 2005 was being used but was not mentioned in any documentation

Resolution

Section 2.5.1 Understanding Port Requirements in the NSAW Agent Installation guide and section 2.5.2 Default ports in the SCM Installation Guide will be updated with the following information in the next release.
The Win32 process 'VigilEntAgent.exe' is listening on this port (pid 3300).

This process 'VigilEntAgent.exe' (pid 3300) is hosting the following Windows service:
VigilEntAgent (NetIQ Security Agent for Windows)

Cause

VigilEntAgent.exe was listening on port 2005 but this was not documented