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