About this course:

The course covers installation, configuration, and management of BIG-IP LTM systems. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions. Pre-requisite(s): Administering BIG-IP, OSI model, TCP/IP addressing and routing, WAN, LAN environments, and server redundancy concepts; or having achieved TMOS Administration Certification

The average salary for Network Administrator is $65,928 per year.

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, students will be able to: 

• BIG-IP initial setup (licensing, provisioning, and network configuration)
• A review of BIG-IP local traffic configuration objects
• Using dynamic load balancing methods
• Modifying traffic behavior with persistence (including SSL, SIP, universal, and destination address affinity persistence)
• Monitoring application health with Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 monitors (including transparent, scripted, and external monitors)
• Processing traffic with virtual servers (including network, forwarding, and reject virtual servers)
• Processing traffic with SNATs (including SNAT pools and SNATs as listeners)
• Configuring high availability (including active/standby and N+1 sync failover device groups, connection and persistence mirroring, and sync-only device groups)
• Modifying traffic behavior with profiles (including advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and OneConnect profiles)
• Advanced BIG-IP LTM configuration options (including VLAN tagging and trunking, SNMP features, and packet filters)
• Deploying application services with iApps
• Customizing application delivery with iRules and local traffic policies

Audience: 

This course is intended for:

• System and network administrators responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

Prerequisites:

• Administering BIG-IP instructor-led course
• F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator

Suggested prerequisites courses:

• F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP v12 (F5-NetAdmin-v12)
• F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP APM v12: Access Policy Manager (F5-APM-12)