Internal communication

These preferences configure advanced settings related to the communication between Switch application components. Do not change these settings unless you understand why you need to change them.

Note: The ports in the range 0 to 1023 are often managed by the IANA and are available for use only to privileged users.

Property	Description
Server name	The name of this instance of the Switch server as it is displayed to users of SwitchClient.
Port for Switch Designer	The port used for communication between Switch server and Switch Designer, in the range of 1 to 65535.
Port for SwitchClient	The port used for communication between Switch server and SwitchClient instances, in the range of 1 to 65535.
Port for Switch Watchdog - Server	The port used for communication between Switch server and Switch Watchdog, in the range of 1 to 65535.
Port for Switch Watchdog	The port used for communication between Switch Designer and SwitchClient Watchdog, in the range of 1 to 65535.
Compress SwitchClient jobs	If set to "Yes" (the default), jobs transferred from and to SwitchClient instances are compressed (higher processing time and lower bandwidth consumption) If set to "No", jobs are not compressed (lower processing time and higher bandwidth consumption); this is meaningful for high-speed local networks
Maximum number of mobile SwitchClients	Define the maximum number of simultaneous mobile SwitchClient connections you want to allow
Enable Push notifications	Set this to "Yes" to enable Push notifications for SwitchClients to your iPad. These notifications are used to send job and status information from the Switch Server to SwitchClient for iPad The following additional fields appear when select "Yes" for Enable Push notifications: Send every (hours): Set the time interval in hours for Push notifications Use proxy: Set this to "Yes" to enable SOCKS5 proxy to send Push notifications. The following additional fields appear: Name or IP address of host: Enter name or IP address of the proxy server of your local network Proxy user name: Enter the user name that you use to log in to the proxy server Proxy password: Enter the password that you use to log in to the proxy server Proxy port: Enter the port number used for communication with the proxy server

Note: If you want to set a firewall rule to allow all network communication (like SwitchClient, FTP, ...), you need to set an exception for the Switch Service process instead of the Switch Designer process because network communication for Switch happens through this process.

You can check the above table for more information on which ports should be used.