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Administering BIG-IP & Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) v14.1
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Course Details
F5 ADMINISTERING BIG-IP & CONFIGURING BIG-IP LOCAL TRAFFIC MANAGER (LTM) V14.1
Course Code: LTM
Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisite:
Students should understand TCP/IP addressing and routing . However, no prior F5 experience required.
Course Description:
This course gives network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, introducing students to both commonly used and advanced BIG-IP LTM features and functionality. 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.
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for network administrators, network operators and network engineers with no or minimal experience with F5 who would be responsible for installation and set up of BIG-IP LTM systems.
Course Outline:
- Getting started with the BIG-IP system & initial setup (licensing, provisioning, and network configuration)
- Traffic processing with LTM and SNATs
- Using the Traffic Management Shell (tmsh) command line interface
- Using NATs and SNATs
- Monitoring application health and managing object status
- Modifying traffic behaviour with profiles
- Modifying traffic behaviour 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
- Always-On Management (AOM)
- User roles and administrative partitions
- vCMP concepts
- Customising application delivery with iRules
- A review of BIG-IP local traffic configuration objects
- Using dynamic load balancing methods
- Monitoring application health with Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 monitors
- Processing traffic with virtual servers
- Configuring high availability (including active/standby and N+1 sync failover device groups, connection and persistence mirroring, and sync-only device groups)
- Deploying application services with iApps
- Customising application delivery with iRules and local traffic policies