SA 10.5.x and port 50514

[TomiReiman]

Hi,

We had to pause our scheduled upgrade from 10.4.0.1 via 10.4.1 to 10.5.0 because we failed to get any concrete information about the new port 50514, which is required from Audit logging. The 10.5 upgrade instructions document refers to the architecture picture found on SADocs, but I fail to see anything related to this port within the linked page.

Anyone able to tell from where to where does the port 50514 need to be opened? KB 000030600 references the port by accident, giving away that the protocol is UDP. Correct?

Really frustrating that these things cannot be found in the documentation, even though a link to the documentation is provided just above the mentioning of this new port.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Tom,

Sorry about the confusion.  Port 50514 is used for auditing purposes, as each Security Analytics component writes audit logs to the local syslog receiver that is listening on that port.  The internal ticket SACE-4108 is open to address the topic of adding the port to the Network Architecture and Ports page of the Security Analytics 10.5 User Guide.

Thanks,

Jeff

[TomiReiman]

Hi Jeffrey,

Where is the target configured when talking about other components than the SA server? I believe on the SA server this is related to the Administration > Auditing settings (talking about 10.4.1). Should we encounter any troubles while upgrading to 10.5.0 if this port is not open, say, between a log hybrid an our SA server? I.e. are there checks for the port to be open in the installation procedure, which might halt the entire upgrade if the port was not open?

[TomiReiman]

This link seems to resolve the issue:

Troubleshoot Global Audit Logging - RSA Security Analytics Documentation

The critical quote being "For centralized audit logging, each of the Security Analytics services writes audit logs to rsyslog listening on port 50514 using UDP on the local host."

Therefore, they way I understand this, is that each Security Appliance is forwarding its audit log to the localhost port 50514, and the logs then get forwarded to the Security Analytics server using Rabbit-MQ.

[Anonymous]

Hi Tom,

You are correct.  Each component sends audit logs to rsyslog listening on port 50514 and running on the same host.  Because it is a localhost communication, it is not required to open the port for accepting traffic from a different host.

Thanks,

Jeff