Course

Administering BIG-IP

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Cost Training Units Course number Points Time Modules
$550.00 10 F5-TRG-BIG-OP-ADMIN-SDT 0 19 hours 16 minutes 106

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Course description

This course provides a BIG-IP Administrator with training on how to set up and administer a BIG-IP system for application delivery. Learn setup and hardening topics and see how to customize system preferences. Gain the foundations of application delivery with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), including deploying a simple load-balanced web application, monitoring, and modifying traffic behavior. Understand how to administer a BIG-IP system, using TCPDUMP, leveraging the iHealth tool, exploring the upgrade process, and managing user roles and partitions. Skills are imparted through a combination of video presentations and lab demonstrations, with accompanying job aids that provide configuration examples.

Course Objectives: By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • 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
  • View resource status, availability, and statistical information and use this information to determine how the BIG-IP system is currently processing traffic
  • Use profiles to manipulate the way the BIG-IP system processes traffic through a virtual server
  • Perform basic troubleshooting and problem determination activities including using the iHealth diagnostic tool
  • Support, and view traffic flow using TCPDUMP
  • Understand and manage user roles and partitions
  • Configure and manage a sync-failover device group with more than two members
  • Configure stateful failover using connection mirroring and persistence mirroring

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