F5 Network BigIp cheat sheet

This post is a work in progress...

• How to generate a list with one self ip and vlans per line 

# tmsh list /net self  | egrep 'self|vlan' | xargs -n 6 echo
net self 10.2.2.2/30 { vlan FAILOVER
net self 10.176.30.100/19 { vlan hybridServiceNet-140
net self 10.176.30.102/19 { vlan hybridServiceNet-140
net self 10.176.94.132/19 { vlan hybridServiceNet-142

Or 


# tmsh list net self | egrep -v 'floating|unit|allow-service' | xargs -n 7
net self 10.178.191.49/18 { vlan rackconnect110 }
net self 10.179.63.181/18 { vlan rackconnect112 }

• How to simulate F5 health check requests with empty Host header

http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-simulate-f5-health-check.html

• How to parse tmsh output

http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/ways-to-parse-tmsh-output-and-automate.html