F5 Administering BIGIP - BIG-OP-ADMIN
WGAC-F5N-BIG-OP-ADMIN
Schedule
Description
This 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.
Audience
This course is intended for network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day
operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network. This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses.
The following free web-based training courses, although optional, will be very helpful for any student with limited BIG-IP
administration and configuration experience.
Getting Started with BIG-IP web-based training
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
Students should 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
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)