Configuring port labels
You create port labels under Networking > App Definitions: Port Labels.
Port labels are names given to sets of port numbers. You use port labels when configuring in-path rules. For example, you can use port labels to define a set of ports for which the same in-path, peering, QoS classification, and QoS marking rules apply.
This table summarizes the port labels that are provided by default.
Port Type | Description and Ports |
|---|
product | Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on Core ports 7950 - 7954 (data transfers), and 7970 (management). Core delivers block-storage optimization that accelerates access to storage area networks (SANs) across the WAN, decoupling storage from servers and allowing data to reside in one location. |
Interactive | Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on interactive ports (for example, Telnet, TCP ECHO, remote logging, and shell). |
RBT-Proto | Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on ports used by the system: 7744 (RiOS data store synchronization), 7800-7801 (in-path), 7810 (out-of-path), 7820 (failover), 7850 (connection forwarding), 7860 (Interceptor appliance), 7870 (SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile). |
Secure | Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on commonly secure ports (for example, SSH, HTTPS, and SMTPS). |
FTP | Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on FTP ports 20 and 21. |
If you do not want to automatically forward traffic on interactive, RBT-Proto, secure ports or FTP, you must delete the Interactive, RBT-Proto, Secure, and FTP in-path rules.
This feature is optional.
These configuration options are available:
Add a New Port Label
Displays the controls to add a new port label.
Name
Specifies the label name. These rules apply:
• Port labels aren’t case sensitive and can be any string consisting of letters, the underscore ( _ ), or the hyphen ( - ). There can’t be spaces in port labels.
• The fields in the various rule pages of the Management Console that take a physical port number also take a port label.
• To avoid confusion, don’t use a number for a port label.
• Port labels that are used in in-path and other rules, such as QoS and peering rules, can’t be deleted.
• Port label changes (that is, adding and removing ports inside a label) are applied immediately by the rules that use the port labels that you have modified.
Ports
Specifies a comma-separated list of ports.
Modifying ports in a port label
Select the port label name in the Port Labels list to display the Editing Port Labels Interactive group. Under Editing Port Label <port-label-name>, add or delete ports in the Ports text box.