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Nov 15, 2016

Where is the F5 web gui's ping, traceroute form?

I sent some traffic test like ping and traceroute from the web ui to a backend server the other day using a form in the F5 Web GUI. Today, I cannot find that tool for the life of me.   Can you te...
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Nov 16, 2016

I guess my F5 does not have the WOM or maybe it is not in this version anymore. But to get the tool:

 

  1. Click "Partion" list up by the "Log out" button
  2. Choose All [Read Only]
  3. Then Click on left Acceleration -> Symmetric Optimization -> Diagnostics
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Nov 17, 2016

Oddly, after logging in today, the tool is where I found it, but without even clicking Choose All [Read Only]. So, I think I was just blinded before. I was sort of convinced the tab to click was called Troubleshooting or Testing or some other thing and must have looked right past Diagnostics while I was hunting.

 

O well.