Platform Analytics hosts

There are three types of Platform Analytics hosts that you install:

Platform Analytics server

The Platform Analytics server manages the data that the Platform Analytics nodes collect. You can perform all server functions using the Platform Analytics Console in the server.

Platform Analytics reporting server

The Platform Analytics reporting server generates reports based on the data that the Platform Analytics nodes collect. Users can view these reports using a web browser. The Platform Analytics reporting server can run on the same host as the Platform Analytics server if this host meets the system requirements of both the Tableau Server and the Platform Analytics server software.

Platform Analytics node

Platform Analytics nodes are hosts that collect data from clusters or license servers. Each node either belongs to a cluster from which Platform Analytics collects data (including license data if connected to a license server), or is a standalone host that collects license data.

System ports

Platform Analytics hosts and components use the following system ports. You need to ensure that the system ports for Platform Analytics are open for the hosts and components to communicate with one another. You also need to ensure that your web server port is open.

Platform Analytics system ports

Platform Analytics hosts use the following TCP ports by default. The following tables describe the configuration files that you need to modify to change the default settings and the firewall configurations you need to set to allow communication using these ports between the various hosts.

Platform Analytics server ports


Port name

Default port number

Description

Firewall configuration (all bi-directional)

Configuration file

PIAM_PORT

9091

Internal port for the task scheduler.

N/A

ANALYTICS_TOP/conf/pi.conf

PIEM_PORT

9092

The Platform Analytics event manager uses this port to receive events from the Platform Analytics server and nodes.

Allow connections for this port from each node host to the server host.

ANALYTICS_TOP/conf/pi.conf

Remoting server port

9093

The Platform Analytics remoting server uses this port to receive data from the remoting node.

Allow connections for this port from the remoting node to the server host.

N/A


Platform Analytics node ports


Port name

Default port number

Description

Firewall configuration (all bi-directional)

Configuration file

PLC port

4046

The Platform Analytics server uses this port to manage the loader controller (plc) on the Platform Analytics node.

Allow connections for this port from the server host to each node host.

ANALYTICS_TOP/conf/plc.xml


Third-party tool ports


Port name

Default port number

Description

Firewall configuration (all bi-directional)

Web server port

80

End users can use this port to browse reports.

Allow connections for this port from each browsing host to the server host.

License server port

N/A

To collect license usage data from the FLEXnet server, the Platform Analytics node needs to communicate with the FLEXnet server host via TCP.

Allow connections for this port from the node host to each FLEXnet server host.

FLEXnet Manager database port

1433 for MS SQL Server

To collect data from FLEXnet Manager, the Platform Analytics node needs to communicate with the FLEXnet Manager database via TCP.

Allow connections for this port from the node host to the FLEXnet Manager database host.


System architecture diagrams

The following diagrams show architectures of Platform Analytics systems that monitor multiple LSF clusters.

Figure 1. Platform Analytics system architecture where each node is a member of an LSF cluster
Figure 2. Platform Analytics system architecture with a standalone node connected to a license server