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Nimbostratus

Nov 28, 2016

Non-Standard Port is not working for Icontrol & F5 Editor

Hi, We are using F5 in Microsoft Azure. As per documentation, we need to change 443 port to 8443 non-standard Port. So we can use 443 port for web traffic. But after changing to non-standard port, ic...

Nimbostratus

Dec 18, 2017

I ran into the same issue after booting an Azure instance as well. From documentation, it looks that all BIG-IP VE v12.1.0+ use the 8443 port by default. As of this post, the version on Azure is BIG-IP 13.0.0 Build 3.0.1679 Hotfix HF3. In my case when using the iControl.jar, I was seeing a

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "version="1.0""

error when running the

interfaces.getSystemSystemInfo().get_version()

method.

I was able to resolve this in two different ways:

Follow the "Change the Configuration utility port" section of this documentation page. The main command from the documentation that I needed to run was
```
modify sys httpd ssl-port 443
```
. I cannot say what other repercussions this may have for your environment. I assume if you don't have anything else running on 443, you should be fine.
The Interfaces buildURL() method needs to be updated to accept a 8443 port as
```
https
```
. A simple
```
if ( 443 == m_port || 8443 == m_port ) {...}
```
update and rebuild looks to suffice for my scripts. I hope to make a pull request with this update, but I am not sure how the F5 devs would prefer to see it implemented or if there are other issues that I do not see.