Useful CLI commands F5
CLI commands
tmsh on F5 is the CLI tool to get and set all config of the F5. You can get the same configuration options like in the F5 UI.
Use "tmsh" to start an interactive shell or use "tmsh show ..." directly to get an output of the command
The tmsh and tmctl utilities include commands for troubleshooting device trust and device group operations.
Useful CLI command line troubleshooting tools
| Command | Description |
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| tmsh run cm sniff-updates | Displays the commit ID updates that occur over the configuration management communications channel. |
| tmsh run cm watch-devicegroup-device | Displays information about the devices in the device group to which the local device belongs. |
| tmsh run cm watch-sys-device | Displays information about the local device. |
| tmsh run cm watch-trafficgroup-device | Displays information about the traffic groups associated with devices in a device group. |
| tmsh sys db configsync.timesyncthreshold | Displays the time threshold for the time difference between devices in the trust domain. If the time difference between devices exceeds the configured threshold value, the BIG-IP system logs an error. |
| tmsh show cm device | Displays the time difference, in seconds, between the local device and each of the other devices in the trust domain. |
| tmsh show cm traffic-group | Displays status for all traffic groups on the local device, including the next-active device, the previously-active device, and the reason that an active traffic group is active on its current device. This information is also available with the tmsh cm traffic-group all-properties command. |
| tmsh show cm sync-status | Displays the current network connection status, either connected or disconnected. |
| tmsh show sys ha-mirror | Displays the current status of mirrored connections. |
| tmsh show cm failover-status | In addition to other information, displays log messages when:
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| tmctl sod_tg_conn_stat | Displays SOD messaging statistics for each type of message sent and received. |
| tmctl sod_tg_msg_stat | Displays the outgoing packets from the SOD daemon to the other devices in the device group. |
| tmsh modify cm trust-domain Root add-device { ca-devices true | false ip_address } device-name device_name username admin password admin | In addition to adding a device to a trust domain, returns error messages for these conditions:
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