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
  • Configuring high availability (including active/standby and N+1 sync failover device groups, connecion 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 behavior with profiles (including advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and OneConnect profiles)
  • 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
  • Customizing application delivery with iRules
  • Deploying application services with iApps
  • User roles and administrative partitions
  • Troubleshooting the BIG-IP system, including logging (local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging), and using tcpdump
  • Always-On Management (AOM)
  • vCMP concepts

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
4 days

Price
  • 3,990.— €
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Classroom Training

Duration
4 days

Price
  • Austria: 3,990.— €
  • Germany: 3,490.— €
incl. catering
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Schedule

Guaranteed date:   iTLS 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.

German

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)   ±1 hour

Online Training
Classroom option: Vienna Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) Course language: German Guaranteed date!
Online Training
Classroom option: Vienna Time zone: Central European Time (CET) Course language: German
Guaranteed date:   iTLS 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.

Austria

Vienna Course language: German Guaranteed date!
Vienna Course language: German