This two-day course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of the BIG-IP® v11 system as it is commonly deployed in an application delivery network. The course introduces students to the
BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, interactive demonstrations, and discussions.

Topics covered in this course include:

• Getting Started with the BIG-IP System 
• Traffic Processing with LTM 
• Secure Network Address Translation (SNATs) 
• Traffic Management Shell (TMSH) and Managing the BIG-IP System 
• Monitors, Network Map, and Configuration State 
• Profile Concepts 
• Session Persistence 
• iApps Concepts 
• Basic BIG-IP Troubleshooting 
• BIG-IP Administration 
• Overview of Other BIG-IP Products (GTM, ASM, APM) 
• Enterprise Manager (EM) 
• High Availability Concepts 
• Rules 

At the end of this course, the student should be able to:

• Start/restart, license, and provision the BIG-IP system; 
• Use the Configuration utility and TMOS Shell (tmsh) to manage BIG-IP resources such as virtual servers, pools, pool members, nodes, profiles, and monitors; 
• Create, restore from, and manage BIG-IP archives;
• View resource status, availability, and statistical information and use this information to determine how the BIG-IP system is currently processing traffic 
• Perform basic troubleshooting and problem determination activities including using the iHealth diagnostic tool, researching known issues and solutions on AskF5, submitting a problem ticket to F5 Technical Support, and viewing traffic flow using tcpdump; 
• Understand and manage user roles and partitions; 
• Operate two or more BIG-IPs as part of an N+1 high-availability configuration; 
• Use an iApp to deploy an application service;
• Describe the role of Enterprise Manager in BIG-IP system administration and operation 
• Describe how traffic flows through LTM, GTM, ASM, and APM 
• Describe the role if iRules in affecting traffic behavior 

Audience 

This course is intended for network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation of a BIG-IP application delivery network. This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses. 

Prerequisites

• Students should understand: 
• TCP/IP Addressing and Routing including: 
• The Address Resolution Protocol 
• Direct and Indirect Routing 
• TCP Handshakes 
• Common elements of and differences between WAN and LAN components