Crashplan and "Allow" access thru Firewall

[corbinmharris]

We are rolling out CrashPlan ProE with backups directly to the cloud. So we don't have an internal CrashPlan server.

Deployment will be via Self Service

So for our non-admin users, what is the best option to automatically set the Firewall to "Allow" Crashplan to connect to the external backup server?

[alexjdale]

A command like this will add a FW exception, but the app needs to be installed first:

/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add "/Applications/Microsoft Lync.app"

But now that I think about, why would the FW block CrashPlan when it's connecting outbound?