Websphere : Change application server ports

I have set of JVM ports (9080,9081) accessible thru firewall.  This week when I built new websphere clustered ND environment something went wrong and it picked up ports 9081,9082 instead of usual 9080,9081. Here is a process I used to alter them from 9081->9080 & 9082->9081

Login at deployment manager -> Sselect Servers -> Application Servers -> Server1 -> Scroll down at right  hand pane until Communications and select “Ports”

Click on Details and edit both port numbers 9081/9444

Finally generate and propagate plugin to reflect new port changes at IBM Http server “plugin-cfg.xml”

Old Plugin-cfg.xml Settings :

<ServerCluster CloneSeparatorChange=”false” GetDWLMTable=”false” IgnoreAffinityRequests=”true” LoadBalance=”Round Robin” Name=”cluster” PostBufferSize=”64″ PostSizeLimit=”-1″ RemoveSpecialHeaders=”true” RetryInterval=”60″>
<Server CloneID=”15a4r5p9p” ConnectTimeout=”0″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” LoadBalanceWeight=”2″ MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”Server1_Node01_server_member1″ ServerIOTimeout=”0″ WaitForContinue=”false”>
<Transport Hostname=”Server1″ Port=”9081” Protocol=”http”/>
<Transport Hostname=”Server1″ Port=”9444” Protocol=”https”>
<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”/opt/IBM/WebSphere/Plugins/config/ihs-prpc/plugin-key.kdb”/>
<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”/opt/IBM/WebSphere/Plugins/config/ihs-prpc/plugin-key.sth”/>
</Transport>
</Server>

Open /opt/IBM/WebSphere/Plugins/config/ihs-prpc/plugin-cfg.xml and make sure you see the new port changes

<ServerCluster CloneSeparatorChange=”false” GetDWLMTable=”false” IgnoreAffinityRequests=”true” LoadBalance=”Round Robin” Name=”cluster” PostBufferSize=”64″ PostSizeLimit=”-1″ RemoveSpecialHeaders=”true” RetryInterval=”60″>
<Server CloneID=”15a4r5p9p” ConnectTimeout=”0″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” LoadBalanceWeight=”2″ MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”Server1_Node01_server_member1″ ServerIOTimeout=”0″ WaitForContinue=”false”>
<Transport Hostname=”Server1″ Port=”9080” Protocol=”http”/>
<Transport Hostname=”Server1″ Port=”9443” Protocol=”https”>
<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”/opt/IBM/WebSphere/Plugins/config/ihs-prpc/plugin-key.kdb”/>
<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”/opt/IBM/WebSphere/Plugins/config/ihs-prpc/plugin-key.sth”/>
</Transport>
</Server>