F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP LTM v12: Local Traffic Manager

Unlock the power of F5 Networks with our Configuring BIG-IP LTM v12 course, designed for system and network administrators to master advanced traffic management and high availability solutions.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the installation, configuration, and management of BIG-IP LTM systems.

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Implement advanced traffic management strategies with BIG-IP LTM.

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Design high availability solutions leveraging BIG-IP LTM features.

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Leverage F5 support resources and community tools.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 3 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • System Administrators
  • Network Administrators
  • IT Infrastructure Managers
  • Technical Support Engineers

Description

Provides networking professionals a functional understanding of the BIG-IP LTM v12 system as it is commonly used, as well as an in-depth understanding of advanced features. The course covers installation, configuration, and management of BIG-IP LTM systems. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.

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Course Outline

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Lesson 1: Setting up the BIG-IP System

  1. Introducing the BIG-IP System

  2. Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System

  3. Archiving the BIG-IP Configurations

  4. Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools

Lesson 2: Reviewing Local Traffic Configuration

  1. Reviewing Nodes, Pools, and Virtual Servers

  2. Reviewing Address Translation

  3. Reviewing Routing Assumptions

  4. Reviewing Application Health Monitoring

  5. Reviewing Traffic Behavior Modification with Profiles

  6. Reviewing the TMOS Shell (TMSH)

  7. Reviewing Managing BIG-IP Configuration Data

Lesson 3: Load Balancing Traffic with LTM

  1. Exploring Dynamic Load Balancing Options

  2. Using Priority Group Activation and Fallback Host

  3. Comparing Member and Node Load Balancing

Lesson 4: Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence

  1. Reviewing Persistence

  2. Introducing SSL Persistence

  3. Introducing SIP Persistence

  4. Introducing Universal Persistence

  5. Introducing Destination Address Affinity Persistence

  6. Using Match Across Options for Persistence

Lesson 5: Monitoring Application Health

  1. Differentiating Monitor Types

  2. Customizing the HTTP Monitor

  3. Monitoring an Alias Address and Port

  4. Monitoring a Path vs. Monitoring a Device

  5. Managing Multiple Monitors

  6. Using Application Check Monitors

  7. Using Manual Resume

Lesson 6: Processing Traffic with Virtual Servers

  1. Virtual Servers Concepts

  2. Path Load Balancing

  3. Introducing Auto Last Hop

Lesson 7: Processing Traffic with SNATs

  1. Overview of SNATs

  2. SNAT Auto Map

  3. SNAT Pools

  4. SNATs as Listeners

  5. SNAT Specificity

  6. VIP Bounceback

  7. Additional SNAT Options

  8. Network Packet Processing

Lesson 8: Configuring High Availability

  1. Sync-Failover Group Concepts

  2. Synchronization, State and Failover

  3. Traffic Group Concepts

  4. N+1 Concepts

Lesson 9: Configuring High Availability Part 2

  1. Failover Triggers and Detection

  2. Stateful Failover

  3. Device Group Communication

  4. Sync-Only Device Groups

Lesson 10: Modifying Traffic with Profiles

  1. Profiles Review

  2. Common Protocol Profile Types and Settings

  3. TCP Express Optimization

  4. Performance Improvements

  5. Configuring and Using Profiles

  6. HTTP Profile Options

  7. OneConnect

  8. HTTP Compression

  9. HTTP Caching

  10. Stream Profiles

  11. F5 Acceleration Technologies

  12. Analytics

Lesson 11: Selected Topics

  1. VLAN, VLAN Tagging, and Trunking

  2. Restricting Network Access

  3. SNMP Features

  4. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

  5. Route Domains

Lesson 12: Deploying Application Services with iApps

  1. Simplifying Application Deployment with iApps

  2. Using iApps Templates

  3. Deploying an Application Service

  4. Reconfiguring an Application Service

  5. Leveraging the iApps Ecosystem on DevCentral

Lesson 13: Customizing Application Delivery with iRules and Local Traffic Policies

  1. Getting Started with iRules

  2. Triggering an iRules

  3. Introducing iRules Constructs

  4. Leveraging the DevCentral Ecosystem

  5. Deploying and Testing iRules

  6. Getting Started with Local Traffic Policies

  7. Constructing and Managing Rules

Lesson 14: Final Lab Project

  1. Lab Project Options

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