This course gives networking professionals hands-on knowledge of how to troubleshoot a BIG-IP system using a number of troubleshooting techniques as well as troubleshooting and system tools.
F5 Administering BIG-IP & Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Gain hands-on skills to deploy, manage, and optimize BIG-IP and BIG-IP LTM, covering essential administration, traffic management, load balancing, security, and troubleshooting.
Course Duration
5 Days
Target Audience
This course is intended for network administrators, network operators, and network engineers with little to no prior F5 experience who are responsible for installing, configuring, and managing BIG-IP and BIG-IP LTM systems.
Course Overview
This course provides a complete functional understanding of the BIG-IP system and BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as commonly deployed in modern application delivery networks. It is ideal for professionals responsible for installing, configuring, and operating BIG-IP environments.
Key Learning Objectives
- Back up and restore BIG-IP system configurations to ensure operational safety and reliability.
- Configure essential traffic objects, including virtual servers, pools, monitors, profiles, and persistence methods.
- Test, verify, and analyze application delivery using BIG-IP’s local traffic statistics and diagnostic tools.
- Configure priority group activation to ensure servers are used efficiently and only when needed.
- Understand and compare member-based vs. node-based dynamic load-balancing methods.
- Apply connection limits to control traffic loads on specific nodes and pool members.
- Differentiate between cookie, SSL, SIP, universal, and destination address affinity persistence, and understand when each is appropriate.
- Explain and use the three Match Across Services persistence options for advanced session management.
- Configure and customize health monitors to accurately assess application and service availability.
- Set up various virtual server types to support different traffic processing scenarios.
- Configure SNAT options—including SNAT Auto Map, SNAT pools, and SNAT-based routing—based on network requirements.
- Implement VLAN tagging and trunking to manage network segmentation and throughput.
- Restrict administrative and application traffic using packet filters, port lockdown settings, and virtual server configuration.
- Configure SNMP alerts and traps to enable remote monitoring and proactive system management.
- Use iRules and local traffic policies to tailor, automate, and enhance application delivery behaviors.
- Detect and mitigate common network and application-layer attacks using BIG-IP LTM features such as SYN Check, eviction policies, iRules, and Local Traffic Policies.
F5 Administering BIG-IP & Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Agenda
- Introduction to BIG-IP architecture, TMOS, and system components
- Initial system setup, licensing, and module provisioning
- Configuring management access, users, roles, certificates, NTP & DNS
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, self IPs, trunks, routes, and packet flow
- High Availability setup: device trust, sync-failover groups, and traffic groups
- Understanding traffic processing objects: nodes, pools, virtual servers
- Load balancing methods and priority group activation
- Configuring NATs, SNATs, SNAT pools, and solving routing challenges
- Creating and customizing health monitors (L3/L4/L7)
- Modifying traffic behavior using profiles (TCP, HTTP, SSL, caching & compression)
- Configuring and comparing persistence methods (cookie, SSL, SIP, universal, destination)
- Working with Match Across Services persistence options
- Virtual server types, forwarding traffic, and order of precedence
- Using iRules for custom traffic logic and automation
- Creating and managing Local Traffic Policies
- Implementing VLAN tagging, trunking, and administrative traffic restrictions
- Enhancing system visibility with statistics, dashboards, and logging
- Configuring SNMP alerts and traps for remote monitoring
- Using TCPDUMP, iHealth, and diagnostic tools for troubleshooting
- Mitigating common network and application layer attacks using LTM features
- End-to-end hands-on lab: build, test, troubleshoot, and optimize a full BIG-IP/LTM deployment
Your Gateway
F5 Troubleshooting BIG-IP
- Course Code: TS
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, Troubleshooting
F5 Developing iRules for BIG-IP
- Course Code: iRules
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, iRules
This course provides networking professionals a functional understanding of iRules development. The course builds on the foundation of the Administering BIG-IP or Configuring LTM course, demonstrating how to logically plan and write iRules to help monitor and manage common tasks involved with processing traffic on the BIG-IP system.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Course Code: LTM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, LTM
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.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP DNS
- Course Code: DNS
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP DNS
This course gives networking professionals a functional understanding of the BIG-IP DNS system as it is commonly used. The course covers installation, configuration, and management of the BIG-IP DNS system, and includes a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on labs.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP AFM
- Course Code: AFM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â AFM, BIG-IP
This course uses lectures and hands-on exercises to give students real-time experience in setting up and configuring the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) system.
F5 Configuring BIG – IP Access Policy Manager
- Course Code: APM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â APM
This course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of BIG-IP Access Policy Manager as it is commonly deployed in both application delivery network and remote access settings.
