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Suresh_Joshi_01's avatar
Suresh_Joshi_01
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Nov 19, 2015

Useful Curl commands for F5 LTM

Can someone please provide me the useful curl commands by which i can troubleshoot issues like checking monitor status, Whether the issue in send or receive strings in LB monitors etc.

 

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Nov 19, 2015

    The cURL help is your friend 😉

    curl --help

    Some of the more common options are:

    -v for verbosity
-k to ignore certificate issues
-d to issue a POST with POST payload data

curl -vk https://www.example.com/foo -d 'user=admin&password=admin'

-X to explicitly define the request method

curl -vkX POST https://www.example.com/foo/bar -d 'user=admin&password=admin'

    The -v option is going to your best tool for troubleshooting monitors. You'll of course want to perform captures to see what the monitor is actually sending and receiving, and curl -v will allow you to simulate these requests.