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- The metadata server of the cloud environment (169.254.169.254) on all cloud platformsAWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.
- If running on AWS, the host iam.amazonaws.com
- If running on GCP, the host host www.googleapis.com
- Once support has been implemented for IBM cloud, the license server will need to communicate with the hosts iam.cloud.ibm.com and resource-controller.cloud.ibm.com.
Any intermediate firewall as well as the cloud-specific subnet and instance security settings must permit communication with these systems for the VE license server to function properly. See Cloud-Specific Firewall Information for information about the mechanisms used in the different cloud environments, and your Linux firewall documentation for any Linux specific questions.
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