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Can the TCPIPReceiver within a workspace running on FME Cloud listen on privileged ports?

  • 7 August 2014
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Can the TCPIPReceiver within a workspace running on FME Cloud listen on privileged ports?

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FME Server doesn't run as root on FME Cloud for security reasons, for ports below 1024 you do need root permissions so unfortunatley the answer is no. Do you have a specific workflow in-mind?
I was looking to build a workflow which listens for SNMP data on port 162 and acts based on that.

 

 

However upon further consideration, we'll need to use secure SNMP which although runs on non-privliged ports, will add complexity in reading the data from within FME.

 

 

Thanks for the answer!

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