Control And Monitor Networked Instruments; Networking Guidelines And Best Practices; Firewall Ports That Must Be Open - Thermo Scientific Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 6 Pro User Manual

Appendix B Connect the instrument to a network
B
Networking

Control and monitor networked instruments

The following items apply when the instrument is connected to a network:
• Computers on the network that are running the desktop software can control the instrument.
Networked instruments can be controlled by only one computer at a time.
• Instruments linked to the Connect cloud-based platform cannot be controlled remotely. The
following functions can be performed:
– Remotely access the Connect cloud-based platform to create plate files and analyze data files.
– Send plate files to the instrument run queue, then start a run from the instrument.
– Monitor a run in real-time from the Connect cloud-based platform.

Networking guidelines and best practices

• Consult a network administrator before connecting the instrument to a network.
• To enable the full functionality of the software, the computer requires a network connection.
• Open the firewall port for the instruments to be discovered. See "Firewall ports that must be open"
on page 200.
• Observe the restrictions to mDNS and Autodiscovery.
The instrument supports mDNS but only when the instrument and computer share a direct network
connection and are within the same subnet. Network computers that are separated from the
instrument by a router, hub, or another network device may not be able to access the instrument by
its host name.
• Confirm the uniqueness of the instrument name.
– The instrument name must be unique within the subnet. The desktop software can
automatically discover instruments on the link-local network.
– The instrument does not test the uniqueness of the instrument name within the subnet when it
is set.

Firewall ports that must be open

Ports
80/443
mDNS, 7443
mDNS, 5353
200
QuantStudio
Standard ports for instrument-to-Connect platform and computer-to-Connect
platform connections
Instrument-to-computer connection
Instrument discovery
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