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MOHIT_125417
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Feb 07, 2016

Checking the Logs...HOW TO??

Dear All,   Recently got one requirement from my client to analyze the traffic between client and F5 and between F5 and pool members for some of the Virtual Servers. Anybody knows how I can setup ...
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Michael_Jenkins
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Feb 08, 2016

The best way to monitor the traffic between clients and servers would be with the 

tcpdump
utility through the CLI. Then you can view the packets in a packet capture viewer like Wireshark. You can find an overview of tcpdump in SOL411 . If you're using SSL from the client to the F5, then you should check out the overview of ssldump in SOL10209 (you'll need access to the private key for the SSL profile used in order to decrypt the traffic).

The other option would be to use an iRule to log some of the traffic information to the LTM log if you're just looking for specific data.

Hope this helps.