One of the challenging tasks for an administrator is to remember the default port number.

You may remember the most common ones like HTTP, FTP, SSH but if you are working on various technology stacks then it’s difficult to remember all of them.

Here I have listed the default port numbers of various applications to help you in the real world.

Application/Web Servers

Name Port Number
Tomcat Startup 8080
Tomcat Startup (SSL) 8443
Tomcat Shutdown 8005
Tomcat AJP Connector 8009
GlassFish HTTP 8080
GlassFish HTTPS 8181
GlassFish Admin Server 4848
Jetty 8080
Jonas Admin Console 9000
IHS Administration 8008
JBoss Admin Console 8080
WildFly Admin Console 9990
WebLogic Admin Console 7001
WAS Admin Console (SSL) 9043
WAS Admin Console 9060
WAS JVM HTTP 9080 (first one only)
WAS JVM HTTPS 9443 (first one only)
Alfresco Explorer/Share 8080
Apache Derby Network Server 1527
OHS 7777
OHS (SSL) 4443
Jenkins 8080
Administrative server 4848
HTTP 8080
HTTPS 8181
IIPO 3700
IIOP_SSL 3820
IIOP_MUTUALAUTH and mutual authentication 3920
JMX_ADMIN 8686

Well-Known Common Protocols

Name Port Number
FTP 20 and 21
HTTP 80
HTTPS 443
LDAP 389
LDAP (SSL) 636
SNMP 161
SSH 22
Telnet 23
SMTP 25
Microsoft RDP 3389
DNS Service 53
NNTP 119
IMAP 143
IMAP (SSL) 993
DNS 53
DHCP server 67
DHCP client 68
TFTP 69
SNMPTRAP 162
POP 110
NTP 123
Netstat 15
ARPA 42
Windows Internet Name Service 42
WHOIS 43
TACACS 49
Kerbos 88
SFTP 115
Network News Transfer Protocol 119
VMNET 175
BGP 179
IMAP 220
Border Gateway Multicast Protocol 264
POP3 995
Telnet 992

Database/Datastore

Name Port Number
DB2 50000
Redis Server 6379
Oracle Listener 1521
mongoDB 27017
MySQL 3306
MS SQL 1433
Memcached 11211
MariaDB 3306
SQL Service 156

Messaging/Transfer

Name Port Number
MQ Listener 1414
IBM Connect:Direct 1364
RabbitMQ Web UI 15672
Tibco RV Daemon 7474
GoToMyPC 8200

Misc

Name Port Number
Syslog 514 (UDP)

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Some of the abbreviations used in the above list

  • WAS – WebSphere Application Server
  • AJP – Apache JServ Protocol
  • SSL – Secure Socket Layer
  • HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
  • LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • SSH – Secure Shell
  • SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • IHS – IBM HTTP Server
  • NNTP – Network News Transport Protocol
  • SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol

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