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Subrun
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Dec 27, 2018

VS Service Port and Pool Service Port Different

Hello All , I have one Virtual has service port configured on HTTPS-443 , but when I see the Pool Members for that Virtual Server those are configured with Different Service Port ( 7300 ). And als...
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PeteWhite
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Dec 28, 2018

This is perfectly normal - the app may be running on any service port as a single server may be hosting multiple apps. As long as 

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is not set to disabled on the VS, the port will be changed to whichever port is configured on the pool member. The same del with the http monitor - it will target whichever port is specified for the pool member. You can set the Alias to a specific port if you want to but don't need to.

Imagine the case where you have multiple apps/virtual servers but only one backend server. You would listen on port 443 for all of the virtual servers but a different port on the backend server for each app.