MCP Examples

These prompts work out of the box once crcli is configured as an MCP server in Claude Code. Replace device names and group names with your own.

Explore Your Fleet

List all my devices

Show me all my device groups and which device is active in each

What software version is bigip-prod-01 running?

List all devices in the prod-ha group

Run "tmsh show sys version" on bigip-prod-01

Check pool member availability on the active device in prod-ha

Run this on the standby device in prod-ha and show me the output:
tmsh show ltm pool recursive
tmsh show ltm virtual

Run my health check script on all three of my device groups and summarize the results

Pull /config/bigip.conf from every device in prod-ha and save to ./configs/

Push ./updated-irule.tcl to bigip-prod-01

Show me the last 5 backups for bigip-prod-01

Get the current pool member states from bigip-prod-01 using iControl REST

Fetch /mgmt/tm/ltm/pool from bigip-prod-01 and tell me which members are down

Disable pool member 10.0.0.5:80 in pool /Common/web_pool on bigip-prod-01

Claude can chain tools together for more complex operations. Collect qkviews from a group:

Generate a qkview on each device in prod-ha, then pull them all to ./qkviews/

Audit and report:

Run "tmsh show ltm pool recursive" on each device group and give me a summary
of which pool members are down across the entire fleet

Compare configs:

Pull /config/bigip.conf from both the active and standby device in prod-ha,
then diff them and tell me what's different