About port labels
Port label settings are under Networking > App Definitions: Port Labels.
You can use a port label to specify a set of ports and then apply a single in-path rule or load-balancing rule to the port label, rather than configuring rules for each port. Using port labels reduces the number of configuration rules in the system.
Add a New Port Label
Displays the controls to add a new port label.
Name
Specify the label name. These rules apply:
• Port labels are not case sensitive and can be any string consisting of letters, the underscore ( _ ), or the hyphen ( - ). Spaces are not allowed 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, do not use a number for a port label.
• Port labels that are used in in-path and other rules, such as peering rules, cannot be deleted.
• Port label changes (that is, adding and removing ports inside a label) are applied immediately by the rules that use the changed port labels.
Ports
Specify a comma-separated list of ports.
Click Add to add the port label.
To modify a port label, in the list of port labels, click the name of the port label you want to edit. The list entry expands to display an editable list. Under Ports, add or delete ports in the Editing Port Label <name> text box.
Click Apply to apply the modifications or click Cancel to cancel your changes.
Click Save to save your changes to the running configuration.
Port label changes are applied immediately by the rules that use the port labels that you have modified.
Default port labels
The system provides these types of port labels by default:
• Interactive—Ports that commonly carry interactive traffic (such as Telnet, TCP ECHO, remote logging, and shell). The SteelHead and other appliances in the system automatically forward traffic carried on these ports. Use the Interactive port label in in-path rules and load-balancing rules to automatically pass through traffic on interactive ports. Port numbers include 7, 23, 37, 107, 179, 513-514, 1494, 1718-1720, 2000-2003, 2427, 2598, 2727, 3389, 5060, 5631, 5900-5903, and 6000.
• RBT-Proto—Ports used by the SteelHead and other appliances in the system: 7744 (data store synchronization), 7800-7801 (in-path), 7810 (out-of-path), 7820 (failover), 7850 (connection forwarding), 7860 (SteelHead Interceptor), 7870 (Client Accelerator Controller), 7881-7882 (SteelHead TLS optimization for SSL simplification).
• Secure—Ports that commonly carry secure traffic (SSH, HTTPS, and SMTPS). The SteelHead and other appliances in the system automatically forward traffic carried on these ports. Use the Secure port label in in-path rules and load-balancing rules to automatically pass through traffic on secure ports. Port numbers include 22, 49, 88, 261, 322, 443, 448, 465, 563, 585, 614, 636, 684, 695, 902, 989-990, 992-995, 1701, 1723, 2252, 2478-2479, 2482, 2484, 2492, 2679, 2762, 2998, 3077-3078, 3183, 3191, 3220, 3269, 3410, 3424, 3471, 3496, 3509, 3529, 3539, 3660-3661, 3713, 3747, 3864, 3885, 3896-3897, 3900, 3995, 4031, 5007, 5061, 5723, 6514, 7674, 8305, 9443, 9802, 11751, 12109, and 41017.
• SteelFusion—Use this port label to automatically pass-through traffic on Core and Edge ports 7950 - 7954 (data transfers), and 7970 (management). Core and Edge appliances deliver 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.
To apply an in-path rule or a load-balancing rule to all ports, specify all.
If you order rules so that traffic that is passed through, discarded, or denied is filtered first, All represents all remaining ports.