Useful Curl commands for F5 LTM

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.