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F5 - Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

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.

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Objectives

  • Learn how to set up and operate the BIG-IP system as it is commonly deployed in an application delivery network, through a combination of instructor-led lecture and hands-on labs, complete initial configuration including licensing, resource provisioning, networking, high-availability (HA), and more to establish a secure system.
  • Gain practical experience implementing traffic processing objects: pools, virtual servers, health monitors, network address translation (NATs and SNATs), and more.
  • Explore modifying traffic behavior with profiles that include SSL offload and re-encryption, and with persistence, including source address affinity and cookie persistence using the configuration utility graphical user interface (GUI) and TMSH (TMOS Shell) command line interface (CLI).
  • Build troubleshooting skills learning various logging methods including local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging combined with practice using troubleshooting tools like TCPDUMP. Learn typical administrative and operational activities including user roles and administrative partition creation and management.

Target Audience

This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

Prerequisites

Students must complete one of the following F5 prerequisites before attending this course:

  • Administering BIG-IP (ILT)
  • F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator

Course Modules

  • Introducing the BIG-IP System
  • Reviewing Local Traffic Configuration
  • Load Balancing Traffic with LTM
  • Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence
  • Monitoring Application Health
  • Processing Traffic with Virtual Servers
  • Processing Traffic with SNATs
  • Modifying Traffic Behavior with Profiles
  • Selected Topics
  • Customizing Application Delivery with iRules
  • Customizing Application Delivery with Local Traffic Policies
  • Securing Application Delivery with LTM
  • Final Lab Project
  • Additional Training and Certification

Scope

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Format: Lecture and hands-on labs

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