F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP

Virtual Instructor-Led Training

2 Days (16 Hours)

F5 Networks: Administering BIG-IP v14 covers administration tasks for managing and maintaining F5 BIG-IP systems.

Course Objectives

Describe the role of the BIG-IP system as a full proxy device in an application delivery network
Set up, start/restart/stop, license, and provision the BIG-IP system out-of-the-box
Create a basic network configuration on the BIG-IP system including VLANs and self IPs
Use the Configuration utility and TMSH to manage BIG-IP resources such as virtual servers, pools, pool members, nodes, profiles, and monitors
Create, restore from, and manage BIG-IP archives

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Certifications

F5 Networks Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA)

F5 Networks Certified Technical Professional (F5-CTP)

F5 Networks Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS)

Course Prerequisites

Course Outline

Getting started with the BIG-IP system

Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Using the TMSH (TMOS Shell) command line interface

Using NATs and SNATs

Monitoring application health and managing object status

Modifying traffic behavior with profiles, including SSL offload and re-encryption

Modifying traffic behavior with persistence, including source address affinity and cookie persistence

Troubleshooting the BIG-IP system, including logging (local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging), and using tcpdump

Always-On Management (AOM)

User roles and administrative partitions

vCMP concepts

Configuring high availability (including active/standby and connection and persistence mirroring)

Default admin/root accounts passwords are now expired by default on new installations. A discussion on this change of behavior is now available, and labs have been updated accordingly.

The Cookie persistence section and labs are no longer included in this course. This content has been moved to the Configuring LTM curriculum.

Configuring and Managing a High Availability Environment (formerly in the Configuring LTM class) is now included in this course.

The iRules chapter has been removed from this course.

F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP v14