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romolo82
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Sep 30, 2025
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Bash shell and ping command on F5 rseries

Hi, I need to use command ping on F5 rSeries. I undarstand that ping command is not availible on F5OS, but with local credentials I annnot to switch from F5OS to bash Linux shell. Do you know how I...
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  • Injeyan_Kostas's avatar
    Injeyan_Kostas
    Sep 30, 2025

    If you are logged in with admin account you cannot access bash
    Try ssh with root

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RemoteAdmin
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Sep 30, 2025

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/rseries-api/F5OS-A-1.8.0-cli.html#r5r10-system-diagnostics-net-utils

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    romolo82
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    Sep 30, 2025

    Thanks, I've read the "system diagnostics net-utils" section, but it seems like ping isn't working on my system and I don't know why:

    F5RS-D-INPS-A-01-BOX_CORE-RKB10# system diagnostics ?
    Possible completions:
      core-files   core-files list/delete CLIs
      ihealth      
      qkview       qkview - diagnostics package commands.
      tcpdump      Run tcpdump
    F5RS-D-INPS-A-01-BOX_CORE-RKB10# system diagnostics