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Port Rules

When you define the port rules for your cluster nodes, we recommend that you filter on specific ports. We also recommend separate rules for HTTP and SSL for each port, across all nodes. Filtering on a specific port rather than a port range eliminates the risk of a third party application triggering a node switch if it takes up resources on a port covered by your iConsole port rule. For example:

• HTTP: Set the start port and end port to 80.
• SSL: Set the start port and end port to 443.

These ports must match those TCP and SSL ports defined in Microsoft IIS in the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog (this is where you define multiple identities for the iConsole Web site).