CONFIGURING BIG-IP® LOCAL TRAFFIC MANAGER™ (LTM) - V11

Duration:                 4 days

Audience:                This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for installation, setup, configuration,

                                  and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

Pre-requisites:       Students should understand:

                                      TCP/IP Addressing and Routing including:

                                      The Address Resolution Protocol

                                      Direct and Indirect Routing

                                      TCP Handshakes

                                      Command Line Configuration including:

                                      Commands and Parameters

                                      Command Line Access (DOS or UNIX)

                                      Common elements of and differences between WAN and LAN components.

                                      Fundamental programming concepts.

                                 In addition, students should be proficient in:

                                     The Linux File System

                                     Pico editor or vi editor,

                                     The tcpdump program, and

                                     Shell scripting.

                                     TCL (Tool Control Language) 

Topics covered:      Installation and Licensing

                                  Virtual Servers and Pools and Load Balancing

                                  Profiles

                                  iRules

                                  Persistence

                                  Health Monitors

                                  SSL Termination and Certificate Management

                                  NATs and SNATs

                                  Highly Available Redundant System configurations

                                  Tmsh (TM Shell) command line, SNMP and Logging

                                  BIG-IP Admin topics such as Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP), VLAN Management, and Administrative Domains

                                  A new v11 feature called iApps