DCE Service Listening on Port 9898 Interferes with the Tripwire Application
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Problem Statement:
With Equitrac Office / Equitrac Express 5.4, there are conflicts with applications such as TripWire which uses port 9898.
Cause:
The DCE service uses port 9898 for the PayStation Deposit Centre.
Resolution:
If the Deposit Centre is not being used, this listener can be turned off in EO / EE 5.4.
- Install EQ54-HF-259522-DCE (or later)
- Login to the DCE server with the user that is running the DCE service (Equitrac Service Account)
- Open regedit.exe to edit the registry. Take the normal precaution of backing up the registry before modifying
- Create the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Equitrac\DCE
- Note that the key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER, not HKLM.
- Create the following DWORD Value: ExcludeDCEPSDCServices
- Set the value of this to 1 to stop DCE from loading the listener for Pay Station on port 9898
- Restart the DCE service
Alternate method:
The recommended solution is to use the method shown above. However, for versions older than 5.4, or for cases where the above cannot be done, there is an alternate method.
- Stop the DCE service.
- Browse to the following registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Equitrac\DCE\Registered Controllers
- Open the windows Registry editor by opening regedit.exe.
- Make a backup of the registry for disaster recovery purposes.
- Rename or delete the 'psdc' value
- Restart the DCE service.