DESCRIPTION

Administering BIG-IP

This course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of the BIG-IP system as it is commonly deployed in an application delivery network. The course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, interactive demonstrations, and discussions.

Topics covered in this course include:

• Setting Up the BIG-IP System
• Traffic Processing with Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
• Using NATs and SNATs
• Using the Traffic Management Shell (TMSH)
• Monitoring Application Health
• Modifying Traffic Behavior with Profiles
• Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence
• Deploying Application Services with iApps
• Troubleshooting the BIG-IP System
• Administering the BIG-IP System
• Customizing Application Delivery with iRules
• Course length: 2 days

Audience

This course is intended for network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network. This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses.

Prerequisites

There are no required F5 prerequisites for this course, but completing one of the following before attending would be very helpful for students unfamiliar with BIG-IP:

• Getting Started with BIG-IP web-based training

Students should understand:

• Network concepts and configuration

Configuring BIG-IP LTM: Local Traffic Manager

This course gives network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) , introducing students to both commonly used and advanced LTM features. Incorporating lecture, extensive hands-on labs, and classroom discussion, the course helps students build the well-rounded skill set needed to manage BIG-IP LTM systems as part of a flexible and high-performance application delivery network.

Topics covered in this course include:

• Set up the BIG-IP LTM System
• Load Balancing, including priority group activation and connection limits
• Persistence concepts, including universal persistence and match across services
• Monitors, including scripted monitors and managing multiple monitors
• Profiles, including compression, caching, and F5 acceleration technologies
• Deploying iApps
• Highly Availability, including Sync-Failover and Sync-Only device groups, traffic groups, and N+1 concepts
• Forwarding and network virtual servers, path load balancing, and auto last hop
• Configuring local traffic policies
• Implementing SNATs
• IPv6 and route domains
• Configuring iRules

By the end of this course, the student should be able to use both the graphical user interface and command line to configure and manage BIG-IP LTM systems in an application delivery network. In addition, students should be able to monitor the BIG-IP system to achieve operational efficiency and establish and maintain high availability infrastructure for critical business applications.

Course length: 3 days

Audience

This course is intended for network operators, network administrators, network engineers, network architects, security administrators, and security architects responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with the BIG-IP LTM system and, in particular, how to setup and configure a BIG-IP LTM system, including virtual servers, pools, profiles, VLANs, and self-IPs.