# WHATPORT(2068)

## NAME

port 2068 — Avocent KVM-over-IP — Keyboard, video and mouse traffic for Avocent (now Vertiv) KVM-over-IP appliances.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA registry

## DESCRIPTION

IANA registers 2068 as the Avocent AuthSrv Protocol, and Vertiv's own DSView port documentation lists 2068/tcp as the KVM session channel ("dsr-kbd+mouse") used by DSR switches, MergePoint and Universal Management Gateway appliances and their UMIQ modules. Nmap labels it avocentkvm for the same reason. Finding it open means a KVM appliance is present, usually next to 22, 443, 3211 and 8192 on the same box. That appliance drives the console of the attached servers — BIOS, boot loader, everything — so the port fronts an out-of-band control plane, not an application.

## EXPOSURE

**Do not expose.** KVM-over-IP is full pre-boot console access to whatever is plugged in. Keep management appliances on an isolated management network reached over a VPN.

## CHECK

```sh
nc -vz TARGET 2068
```

## SEE ALSO

- docs — [Vertiv Avocent DSView 4.5 TCP/UDP Ports Technical Note](https://www.vertiv.com/globalassets/products/monitoring-control-and-management/software/avocent-dsview-management-software/vertiv-avocent-dsview-4.5-tcp_udp-ports-tech-note.pdf) (vertiv.com)
- iana — [IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml) (iana.org)

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