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Infrastructure requirements
Overview of infrastructure requirements necessary for installation.
Assigned ports
Assigned ports can be dynamic or static.
Statically assigned ports
Statical ports are assigned a number.

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Introduction
Hardware & OS recommendations
The following material discusses the specific type of CPU, RAM, disk, and network configurations that are required as well as brand recommendations.
Deployment options
Various deployment options are available for a Touchstone or Touchstone Re installation.
Infrastructure requirements
Overview of infrastructure requirements necessary for installation.
- Required Windows roles & features
  Windows and the installation.
- Proxy exceptions
  Proxy settings and the installation.
- Manage the Windows firewall
  The Windows firewall impacts how components residing on different computers communicate.
- Assigned ports
  Assigned ports can be dynamic or static.
  - Dynamically assigned ports
    Dynamically assigned ports change constantly.
  - Statically assigned ports
    Statical ports are assigned a number.
- Disable user account control
  For Touchstone and Touchstone Re to function properly, User Account Control needs to be disabled across all of the machines in the environment.
- Manage antivirus software
  Antivirus software should be turned off for Touchstone and Touchstone Re installations.
- Group policy settings
  In some scenarios group policies may override the antivirus exclusion, network card offload settings, and active scans on Verisk folders after the system reboots.

Statically assigned ports

Statical ports are assigned a number.

If you are going to statically assign ports, use the following information to guide your port assignments.

Table 1. Analysis Management Server (head node)
Port	Purpose	Communicating with
1801	MSMQ	All the Analysis Servers, in this particular HPC cluster, through the MSMQ infrastructure
1856	HpcNodeManager.exe	All HPC Job Manager Client UI(s) that currently connect to the HPC head node, invoking the Management functionality
5800	HpcScheduler.exe	All the Verisk services that are running on the Application Server (those that submit the Job to the Analysis Management Server)
5999	HpcScheduler.exe (AM Service)	The Activity Monitor Service (on the HPC head node)
5974	HpcDiagnostics.exe	All HPC Job Manager Client UI(s) that currently connect to the HPC head node, invoking the Diagnostic functionality
8888	OutputManagerService	The Analysis Management Server OutputManagerService for UI view log functionality
6080	Push Notifications Service	The Analysis Management Server push notification service for Activity Monitor auto refresh

Table 2. Analysis Server (compute node)
Port	Purpose	Communicating with
1801	MSMQ	The HPC head node, for this particular HPC cluster through the MSMQ infrastructure

Table 3. Application Server (IIS)
Port	Purpose	Communicating with
80	HTTP	For any client that is invoking the services that are running on the IIS Server, under the non-SSL mode (Not currently in use)
443	HTTPS	For any client that is invoking the services that are running on the IIS Server, under the SSL mode (Currently in use)

Table 4. Database/property exposure servers (static ports)
Port	Purpose	Communicating with
1433	SQL Server	Application Server, Analysis Server(s), and Analysis Management Server

Figure 1. Touchstone/Touchstone Re data flow and ports