Bug ID 539742: TMSH "port or service name missing" error when listing pool with a port 2222 or 44818 pool member and other pool members

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Aug 13, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If an ltm pool object is configured with pool members listening on ports 2222 or 44818, a subsequent list ltm pool with fail with a "port or service name missing" error.

Impact

You cannot see the pool list with TMSH if pool contains a member with port 2222 or 44818.

Conditions

If you create a pool with a member listening on port 2222 or port 44818 and then add another member in same port we get the an error when we list the pool: tmsh create ltm pool pootest members add { 10.10.20.2:2222 } tmsh modify ltm pool pootest members add { 10.10.20.3:2222} tmsh list ltm pool Syntax Error: A port number or service name is missing for "10.10.20.3:EtherNet/IP-1". Please specify a port number or service name using the syntax "10.10.20.3:EtherNet/IP-1:<port>".

Workaround

Check pool list using GUI or iControl SOAP.

Fix Information

TMSH no longer shows an error message when listing pool with a port 2222 or 44818 pool member and other pool members.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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