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Nimbostratus

Apr 24, 2015

Non-standard port for iControl Interfaces.Initialize

We would like to access BIG-IPs which have had their management interfaces translated via PAT to a new TCP port by a jump host between iControl and the BIG-IP. For example the HTTPS service on in the...

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Desai_124243

Nimbostratus

Nov 29, 2016

Hi Jeo,

is new feature released for Icontrol which can run on non-standard port instead of port 443?

We need this because Azure Big-IP requirement to change 443 port to different port for management IP. Otherwise we can't use 443 port for application.

Regards

Joe_Pruitt
Dec 02, 2016
As far as I know, the only way to change the port that the BIG-IP management is run on is to manually configure the httpd.conf file on the BIG-IP which most likely is not a supported option.
Desai_124243
Nimbostratus
Dec 02, 2016
As per below F5 link, we must have to change management port to non-standard port on Azure BIG-IP. So 443 port can use on users application

https://support.f5.com/content/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-msft-azure-12-0-0/_jcr_content/pdfAttach/download/file.res/BIG-IP_Virtual_Edition_and_Microsoft_Azure__Setup.pdf

So how can we use iControl on Azure BIG-IP if non-standard port required to change?