Planning network connections

What process does your company use to make network changes?

Your company might have a review and approval process for making the network changes required by the service. Ensure that you understand the process and allow time to implement the required changes.

Does your network have sufficient bandwidth and Internet connectivity?

Clients and servers that connect to the service are likely to increase the amount of network traffic to the Internet and also change the load on particular parts of your network.

It is important to assess whether your current network has sufficient bandwidth and Internet connectivity to handle these changes. You may need to work with your Internet Service Provider to increase network bandwidth before you provision users for the service.

For information, see the topics about network capacity for the web and IBM® Notes® clients.

What firewall changes are required?

Port 1352 must be opened for inbound connections. Ports 1352 and 443 must be opened for outbound connections. You might need to open additional ports, depending on which features you use with the service. For complete information, see the topics Configuring the firewall for inbound connections and Configuring the firewall for outbound connections.

Do you use a forward proxy to control user access to the Internet?

If so, you must allow network traffic to pass transparently through the proxy over ports 1352 (NRPC) and 443 (HTTPS).

Which servers will function as your on-premises passthru servers?

All connections from the service to your on-premises environment occur through on-premises Domino® passthru servers. For security reasons, these servers must be set up in a unique Domino domain. Putting them in a network demilitarized zone (DMZ) between an inner and outer firewall is recommended. For more information, see Preparing passthru servers