After countless time I was unabl to find the answer to my HADR questions and getting HADR to work in 9.5 via the Control Center. Please see my fix that seem strange but works.

My error was as follows. When setting up HADR via the CCenter at the last step in a full setup called "START HADR" it would fail with reason 7.

Now trying to solve the port issue that is listed gets you no where. In fact on my db2diag.log...