F5 - Helpful commands

📅 Thursday, 23 October 2025

🕐 12:27 AM

Below are run in TMSH unless specified. You can see all this in the gui but its faster in cli if youre a beast

List pool (can append pool name and “all-properties”)

• list ltm pool

List virtual servers (can append vs name and “all-properties”)

• list ltm virtual

List monitors (can append monitor name and “all-properties”)

• list ltm monitor

Pcap

• Show on cli

• tcpdump -ni 0.0:nnn host

• Save to folder to view in wireshark

• tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnnp -s0 -w /var/tmp/INC00xxxx.pcap host x.x.x.x

System stuff

• show sys version

• show sys hardware

• show sys performance

Quick checks troubleshooting

• show ltm pool members

• show sys connection | grep <VIP or pool IP>

• show cm sync-status

• tail -f /var/log/ltm (this one is in bash)

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Related Notes

• F5 - CLI commands
• F5 - General Traffic Flow Path
• F5 - Pcap