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Configuring BIG-IP LTM : Local Traffic Manager (BIG-LTM)

Duration

3 days

Course Summary:

This course allows network professionals to gain a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, presenting participants with the most commonly used and advanced features and features of BIG-IP LTM. By incorporating theoretical courses, comprehensive practical laboratories and classroom discussions, training helps participants acquire the skills needed to manage BIG-IP LTM systems as part of a flexible and efficient application distribution 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

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

Participants must have completed one of the following F5 pre-training courses before taking this course:

It is recommended that you have the following general knowledge and experience in network technology before participating in a course given by an instructor at F5 Global Training Services:

  • Encapsulation of the OSI model
  • Routing and switching
  • Ethernet and ARP
  • TCP/IP concepts
  • IP address and subnet
  • NAT and private IP address
  • Default Gateway
  • Network firewall
  • LAN vs. WAN

It is advisable to acquire the following specific knowledge and experience before participating in this course:

  • Distribution of web applications
  • HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SSH protocols
  • TLS/SSL

At the end of the training, you will be able to:

  • Save BIG-IP configuration to ensure security
  • Configure virtual servers, pools, monitors, profiles and persistent objects
  • Test and verify the delivery of applications by the BIG-IP system using local traffic statistics
  • Configure the activation of priority groups on a load balancing pool to allow servers to only be activated when needed to process traffic
  • Compare and contrast dynamic load balancing methods based on members and nodes
  • Configure connection limits to place a threshold on the volume of traffic to particular pool members and nodes
  • Make the difference between the persistence of cookies, SSL, SIP, universal and the persistence of affinity of the destination address, and describe the use cases for each of them.
  • Describe the three persistent Match Across Services options and use cases for each of them
  • Configure health monitors to properly monitor the delivery of applications via a BIG-IP system
  • Configure different types of virtual services to support different types of traffic processing via a BIG-IP system
  • Configure different types of SNAT to support traffic routing via a BIG-IP system
  • Configure tagging and VLAN trunking
  • Restrict administrative and application traffic through the BIG-IP system using packet filters, port locks and virtual server settings.
  • Configure SNMP alerts and traps for remote monitoring of BIG-IP system
  • Use iRules and local traffic policies appropriately to customize the delivery of applications via the BIG-IP system
  • Configure BIG-IP to detect and mitigate some common network and application-layer attacks using LTM features such as SYN verification, eviction policies, iRules and local traffic policies.
  • Initial BIG-IP configuration (licence, provisioning and network configuration)
  • Review of BIG-IP local traffic configuration objects
  • Use of dynamic load balancing methods
  • Changes in traffic behaviour with persistence (including SSL, SIP, universal, and persistence of affinity of destination address)
  • Health monitoring of applications with layer 3, layer 4 and layer 7 monitors (including transparent, scripted and external monitors)
  • Traffic processing with virtual servers (including virtual network, transfer and reject servers)
  • Traffic processing with SNAT (including SNAT pools and SNAT as auditors)
  • Modification of traffic behavior using profiles (including TCP profiles, advanced HTTP profile options, cache, compression and OneConnect profiles)
  • Advanced configuration options for BIG-IP LTM (including VLAN marking and trunking, SNMP functions, package filters and route domains)
  • Customizing the provision of applications with iRules and local traffic policies
  • Secured supply of applications using BIG-IP LTM
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