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MOHIT_125417
Altostratus
Dec 21, 2014Useful CLI Commands for troubleshooting F5 LTM
Hi Experts...I am a new bie to LTM CLI..can you please share the commands frequently used for troubleshooting,health status checking...etc....
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- Michael_Jenkins
Cirrostratus
I would suggest looking at the ltm logs (and apm logs if using the access policy manager module, as well any other modules you're using). One of the best commands I use all the time is
. This will show the last 10 log entries of the ltm log file and will 'follow' any changes, showing them on the screen whenever they are added.tail -f /var/log/ltm
is also a very useful tool for troubleshooting network traffic between clients, F5 devices, and backend machines. SOL411: Overview of packet tracing with tcpdump. If you're using HTTPS instead of HTTP, you may need to usetcpdump
as well to decrypt the captures from the tcpdump. SOL10209: Overview of packet tracing with ssldump.ssldump
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