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Training
Administering BIG-IP and Configuring BIG-IP LTM (Local Traffic Manager) (BIGIPBC)
Duration
4 days
Course Overview:
This course is intended for network administrators, operators and engineers responsible for day-to-day management and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network. This course also offers network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), introducing students to the commonly used features and advanced features of LTM. Incorporating conferences, intensive practical laboratories and classroom discussions, this course helps students develop a comprehensive set of skills needed to manage BIG-IP LTM systems as part of a flexible and efficient application delivery network.
Educational means:
- Knowledge Verification Pre-Training Quiz (if applicable)
- Training by a trainer
- Realizable face-to-face or distancial training
- Provision of remote labs/lab platform for each participant (if applicable to training)
- Distribution of official English course materials for each participant
- It is necessary to have a knowledge of technical English written for the understanding of course materials
Assessment:
- Knowledge Verification Pre-Training Quiz (if applicable)
- Formative evaluations during the training, through the practical work done on the labs at the end of each module, QCM, situation...
- Completion by each participant of a questionnaire and/or upstream positioning questionnaire and at the end of the training for validation of skills acquisition
The following general network technology knowledge and experience are required before waiting any F5 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
- Getting started with the BIG-IP system
- BIG-IP / TMOS overview and architecture
- BIG-IP initial setup (licensing, provisioning, and network configuration)
- Using the Traffic Management Shell (tmsh) command line interface
- Configuring high availability (included active/standby and N+1 sync failover device groups, connection and persistence mirroring, and sync-only device groups)
- Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- Processing traffic with virtual servers (included network, forwarding, and reject virtual servers)
- Processing traffic with SNATs (including SNAT pools and SNATs as listers)
- Editing traffic behavior with profiles (included advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and OneConnect profiles)
- Monitoring application health and managing object status
- Editing traffic behavior with profiles, including SSL upload and re-encryption
- Modifying traffic behavior with persistence, including source address affinity and cookie persistence
- Customizing application delivery with iRules
- Deployment application services with iApps
- User roles and administrative partitions
- Troubleshooting the BIG-IP system, including logging (local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging), and using tcpdump
- Always-On Management (AOM)
- vCMP concepts
