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Your PoolCar URL is the web address of your PoolCar instance. e.g. xyz.poolcar.com or abc.poolcar.com
What does the outbound connection to sync.keymaster.net.au do?
Key cabinets communicate with sync.keymaster.net.au to announce that they are online and healthy. Smartrak monitors the health of the cabinets and if this heartbeat is missing, the cabinet is considered offline. Daily backup of the cabinet database is uploaded to Smartrak’s secure server using this.
What does the outbound connection to PoolCar Server and PoolCar URL do?
The cabinets sync bookings and perform check out and check in of booking using these URLs. If these are not allowed, cabinets will not be able to download, check out or check in bookings from PoolCar.
What does the outbound connection to kmutil.keymaster.net.au and gpssyd1.keymaster.net.au do?
Whenever there is an issue with the cabinet, Smartrak staff would need to remotely access the cabinet for troubleshooting if required. This is made possible with the help of these servers. If communication to these servers is not allowed, Smartrak staff will not be able to troubleshoot issues in the cabinet.
Why do we need to have an outbound firewall rule for github.com
Smartrak deploys the firmware of the KeyCabinet to a private repository in GitHub. When an attempt is made to update the firmware of a cabinet, the latest firmware is pulled from GitHub and necessary changes are applied.
What would happen if we didn’t have the firewall rule in place?
As shown in the following image, outbound communication to various systems is required for the smooth working of the cabinet. If the traffic is interrupted by a firewall, the respective functionality will not work properly resulting in undesired results.
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We have already provided SSH access to domains - kmutil.keymaster.net.au, gpssyd1.keymaster.net.au and github.com as fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Will it pick up the IP address change automatically?
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