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title: Managing Your First Service
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/virtualgs/managing-your-first-service
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T09:30:13.504Z
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To manage your first service

1. Browse to the Admin UI and log in with the username “admin” and your password.
2. The Admin UI home page shows that you have not yet created any pools or virtual servers. From the Wizards drop-down menu, choose Manage a New Service to begin using the wizard.
3. Specify a name that identifies the virtual server, and choose a protocol and port (for example, HTTP and default port 80).
4. Click **Next** to continue.
5. Create a list of backend nodes, which form the default pool for the virtual server.

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The nodes are identified by hostname and port. You can modify these later from the **Pools > Edit** page. Make sure that you can serve content directly from the hostname/port combinations you specify here.
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6. Click **Next** to display the setting summary page.
7. Review the settings that you have chosen. Click **Back** to make changes or click Finish to set up the service.
8. Test your Traffic Manager setup by browsing to it, using the port you set up for your new service. Use one of the following paths:

```bash
http://<machine_name>:<port>
```

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or
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```bash
http://<ip_address>:<port>
```

9. (Optional) You can observe the traffic handled by the Traffic Manager to verify that the traffic was processed and routed correctly. To do so, click Activity in the Admin UI and select the Connections tab. This page lists connections that the Traffic Manager has recently managed. If the list is empty, reload pages from the Website that the Traffic Manager is managing and check that the connections list is modified accordingly.

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You can also use the Current Activity graph to watch the activity of the Traffic Manager in real-time.
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