F5 BIG-IP

Info related to F5 BIG-IP Load Balancers.

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tmsh

Disable paging

For a single command you can use tmsh -q.

For a permanent change use tmsh modify cli preference pager (disabled|enabled).

List pools that contain a member

tmsh -q list ltm pool one-line | grep -E '($node_hostname|$node_ip)' | awk '{ print $3 }'

Create node:

create ltm node NODE_NAME address NODE_IPADDRESS monitor icmp

Modify or create pool:

modify ltm pool POOL_NAME members add { NODE_NAME:PORT NODE_NAME:PORT }

create ltm pool POOL_NAME members add { NODE_NAME:PORT NODE_NAME:PORT } monitor tcp_half_open

show ltm pool POOL_NAME  members | grep MEMBER

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Find the virtual servers using an SSL profile

tmsh list /ltm virtual /Partition/* | grep -E "virtual|SSL_PROFILE_NAME"
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_01 {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_02 {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_03 {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_04 {
        /Partition/SSL_PROFILE_NAME {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_05 {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_06 {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_07 {
        /Partition/SSL_PROFILE_NAME {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_08 {
        /Partition/SSL_PROFILE_NAME_BONUS {
ltm virtual /Partition/VIRTUAL_SERVER_09 {

The virtuals followed by the indented profile name are the ones using that profile.
Note that this can turn up other profiles that match, like the one named SSL_PROFILE_NAME_BONUS in the example.

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Show TCP connections

K53851362: Displaying and deleting BIG-IP connection table entries from the command line

Show TCP connections to VS 1.2.3.4:
tmsh show sys connection {cs-server-addr 1.2.3.4 protocol tcp}

Show connections to a pool member on port 443:
tmsh show sys connection {ss-server-addr 1.2.3.4 ss-server-port 443}

Count connections to a pool member:
tmsh -q show sys connection {ss-server-addr 1.2.3.4} | awk -F ":" '{print $1}' | sort -u | wc -l

Clear TCP connections to a VS

Same as above but "delete" instead of "show".

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Misc

A command that F5 wanted run when a box had high CPU.

ps aux > ~/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname | cut -d'.' -f1)_ps.txt

SSL Troubleshooting

curl -k https://URL_OR_IP/ curl -iv https://URL_OR_IP/ openssl s_client -connect URL_OR_IP:443 -prexit

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iRules

Date Format

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/clock.htm

set var clock format [clock seconds] -format {%d-%m-%y:%H:%M:%S %Z}
11-08-14:00:49:41 PDT

set var clock format [clock seconds] -format {%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z}
11/Aug/2014:13:35:34 -0700

Note: The second option is CLF (Common Log Format), which is used in apache's access logs.

Displaying all IP addresses in the BIG-IP configuration

K34314310: Displaying all IP addresses in the BIG-IP configuration

show /sys ip-address
show /sys ip-address all-properties