Administering BIG-IP and Configuring BIG-IP LTM (Local Traffic Manager) (BIGIPBC)

 

Course Overview

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 gives network professionals also a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), introducing students to both commonly used and advanced LTM features. 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.

Prerequisites

The following general network technology knowledge and experience are required before attending 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

Course Content

  • 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
  • High availability setups (including 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 (including network, forwarding, and reject virtual servers)
  • Processing traffic with SNATs (including SNAT pools and SNATs as listeners)
  • Modifying traffic behaviour with profiles (including advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and OneConnect profiles)
  • Modifying traffic behaviour with profiles for SSL offload and re-encryption
  • Modifying traffic behaviour with persistence, including source address affinity and cookie persistence
  • Monitoring application health and managing object status
  • Customising application delivery with iRules
  • User roles and administrative partitions
  • Troubleshooting the BIG-IP system, including logging (local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging), and using tcpdump
  • Software Updates and Always-On Management (AOM)
  • F5OS concepts
  • Automation concepts and basics (AS3, Ansible)
  • Lab exercises for LTM configurations

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
4 days

Price
  • CHF 4,150.—
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Duration
4 days

Price
  • Switzerland: CHF 4,150.—
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Schedule

Guaranteed date:   We will carry out all guaranteed training regardless of the number of attendees, exempt from force majeure or other unexpected events, like e.g. accidents or illness of the trainer, which prevent the course from being conducted.
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Classroom option: Vienna (iTLS), Austria Guaranteed date!
Guaranteed date:   We will carry out all guaranteed training regardless of the number of attendees, exempt from force majeure or other unexpected events, like e.g. accidents or illness of the trainer, which prevent the course from being conducted.
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.
International guaranteed dates
Vienna (iTLS) Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) Course language: German

Austria

Vienna (iTLS) Course language: German Guaranteed date!
Vienna (iTLS) Course language: German

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