Article - CS81708
Which TCP/IP ports should be opened for Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 29-Sep-2026
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- ProductView Adapters and Creo Elements/View Adapters 10.0 to 13.0
- PTC Product View Adapters (Formerly Creo View Adapters) 1.0 to 2027.0
- ProductView and Creo Elements/View 6.4 to 9.1
- PTC Product View (Formerly Creo View) 1.0 to 12.1
- PTC System Monitor 1.0 to 5.1
- Windchill Service Information Manager 10.1 to 13.1
- Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.1
- Windchill ProjectLink 6.2 to 13.1
- Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 8.0 to 12.1
- Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.1
- Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration 12.0 to 13.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM)
Description
- What TCP/IP ports need to be enabled in firewall so that Pro/ENGINEER, Creo Elements/Pro or Creo Parametric, Windchill Workgroup Manager can communicate with the following products and services and vice versa:
- Windchill
- WVS Worker Agent (formerly CAD Agent)
- PTC Product View Adapters Worker Daemon
- FlexLM (FlexNET) license servers
- What ports are used by Windchill system
- What ports are used for PLM Connector Communication with Windchill PDMLink server
- Recommended exceptions to be applied for port traffic on Windchill servers and CAD Workers machines
- What ports are used by Windchill Enterprise System Integration
- What ports are used on Windchill servers and Database sever
- Request complete list of all port numbers required for communication between the Windchill server and the Worker PC in both directions, as they are hosted on separate network segments and ports are managed separately
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