F5 BIG-IP Health Check

When to Use

• Proactive daily/weekly BIG-IP health monitoring
• Pre-change and post-change validation for load balancer changes
• Incident response -- first thing to run when application delivery is impacted
• Capacity planning for virtual server and pool utilization
• Compliance checks for operational readiness of ADC infrastructure

How to Call the Tools

The F5 MCP server provides 6 tools. Call them via mcp-call with the required environment variables:

IP_ADDRESS=$F5_IP_ADDRESS Authorization_string=$F5_AUTH_STRING python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $F5_MCP_SCRIPT" <tool_name> '{"param":"value"}'

Available Tools