Firewall

Software Risk Manager is a web application that requires a web server to house it. The Apache web server is provided and configured automatically with the installer. However, for most systems, this means that a firewall exception is necessary to allow incoming connections over the network so that users (including you) can access the installation from other machines. By default, the firewall ports that need to be opened up are 80 and 443, for HTTP and HTTPS respectively.

On Windows, you will be prompted with the following alert in order to grant the firewall exception.



Note: The first time you use Software Risk Manager, you must log in using the installer admin credentials. After that, you can change the admin's password within Software Risk Manager; however, changing the password in Software Risk Manager does not change the admin's password for the installer.