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  • IheartF5_45022's avatar
    IheartF5_45022
    Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
    Oct 02, 2015

    Hi R, Traffic Management Shell, or tmsh as it's known, is the command line shell to configure TMOS. So it's used on the management plane.

     

    Tool Command Language or TCL, is the data plane scripting language used in iRules.

     

    I hope that has helped.

     

  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Oct 02, 2015

    The word "shell" can have two meanings here. First, remote access to the BIG-IP command line is usually accomplished via secure shell (SSH), which will dump you into a command shell. That command shell can either be the Linux Bash shell, or the Traffic Management shell (tmsh), depending on how your user account is configured. The TM shell is the command line interface to management operations, in parity with the management GUI and iControl methods

     

    TCL, or "Tool Command Language" is the programming language that iRules are derived from.