Outbound Ports

Pulse One/Workspace uses the following outbound ports when communicating.

Endpoint

Ports

Authentication

Comments

APNS

2195

Certificate, Token

Port 2195 is used when PWS calls Apple's APNS for sending push notifications to iOS devices.

Apple also mentions ports 2196, 5223, and 443:

2196, which is the Feedback Service, is not used.

5223 and 443 are ports used by iOS devices when communicating with Apple.

Two levels of authentication:

PWS server to APNS cloud uses Pulse push certificate.

Device specific token.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203609

GCM

5228
5229
5230

Token

Google mentions 5228 is the primary port while 5229 and 5230 are secondary ports. Pulse Workspace sends notifications to Android devices using GCM notifications.

Apple App Store

443

None

Standard HTTPS call on https://itunes.apple.com/search and
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup. The iTunes API is unauthenticated.

Google Play Store

443

Token

Standard HTTPS call on https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1. The Google custom search engine API requires an API key which is not necessarily associated with any particular other credential (ESA/MSA).

Google EMM Cloud API

443

443

Standard HTTPS call on https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidenterprise.