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Jun 01, 2017

Health check on f5 and firewall

I am new to the BIG_IP platform. I need to know any script is available or commands to check the pool member status and also interface list status - to check whether all are running fine .

 

and also need to know through scripting we can automatically login the f5 load balancer and check the above is mentioned.

 

Is there any powershell module is available in BIG-IP??

 

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  • To see the interfaces status you can use "show net interface" in tmsh mode.

     

    To see the pool members status you can use "show ltm pool poolname"

     

    If you want to see the response from the server you can use "telnet", "openssl", "curl" in bash mode.

     

    For exmaple:

     

    telnet 1.1.1.1 80

     

    curl -vk -H "Host: ; http://1.1.1.1

     

    openssl s_client -connect 1.1.1.1:443

     

    GET / HTTP/1.1 "enter"

     

    Host: "enter"

     

    Connection: close "enter"

     

    "enter"

     

    In order to see the full connection details you can use "tcpdump" and "ssldump" in bash mode.

     

    For exmaple:

     

    tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnnp -s0 host 1.1.1.1 and port 80

     

    ssldump -Aed -nni 0.0:nnnp host 1.1.1.1 and port 443

     

  • Is there any powershell module is available for BIG-IP?? if module exists, how to install and how to use those cmdlets . From those cmdlets how to make script to check interface status,pool member status