Administering BIG-IP and Configuring BIG-IP LTM

Attend both the F5 Administering BIG-IP and Configuring BIG-IP LTM: Local Traffic Manager courses in the same week!

This Administering BIG-IP 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.

This Configuring BIG-IP LTM course gives network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, introducing students to both commonly used and advanced BIG-IP LTM features and functionality. 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.

• Getting started with the BIG-IP system
• Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
• Using 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
• User roles and administrative partitions
• vCMP concepts
• Configuring high availability (including active/standby and connection and persistence mirroring)
• BIG-IP initial setup (licensing, provisioning, and network configuration)
• A review of BIG-IP local traffic configuration objects
• Using dynamic load balancing methods
• Modifying traffic behavior with persistence (including SSL, SIP, universal, and destination address affinity persistence)
• Monitoring application health with Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 monitors (including transparent, scripted, and external monitors)
• Processing traffic with virtual servers (including network, forwarding, and reject virtual servers)
• Processing traffic with SNATs (including SNAT pools and SNATs as listeners)
• Modifying traffic behavior with profiles (including TCP profiles, advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and OneConnect profiles)
• Advanced BIG-IP LTM configuration options (including VLAN tagging and trunking, SNMP features, packet filters, and route domains)
• Customizing application delivery with iRules and local traffic policies
• Securing application delivery using BIG-IP LTM

This course is intended for system and network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network, and installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

The following free web-based training courses, although optional, will be very helpful for any student with limited BIG-IP administration and configuration experience.

These courses are available at F5 University:

▪ Getting Started with BIG-IP

▪ Getting Started with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) web-based training

The following general network technology knowledge and experience are recommended before attending any F5 Global Training Services instructor-led course:

▪ OSI model encapsulation

▪ Routing and switching

▪ Ethernet and ARP

▪ TCP/IP concepts

▪ IP addressing and subnetting

▪ NAT and private IP addressing

▪ Default gateway

▪ Network firewalls

▪ LAN vs. WAN

The following course-specific knowledge and experience is suggested before attending this course:

▪ Web application delivery

▪ HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SSH protocols

▪ TLS/SSL

Test and Certification:

Administering BIG-IP - Exam 201 – TMOS Administration

Prerequisite: Valid passing score on Exam 101 or valid F5-CTP, Sales Certification

F5N_BIG-DNS-I, Configuring BIG-IP DNS (formerly GTM) 
F5N_BIG-AWF-CFG, Configuring F5 Advanced WAF (previously licensed as ASM) 
F5N_BIG-EGW-APM, Configuring BIG-IP APM: Access Policy Manager