F5 Administering BIG-IP – LEVEL 200
Overview
This two-day course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of the BIG-IP® v13.x 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.
Course Content/Exam(s)
| Course Code | Description | Exam Code | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| WGAC-F5N-BIG-OP-ADMIN | F5-Administering-BIG-IP-Level-200-BIG-ADMIN.pdf | 2 Days |
Course Benefits
- Getting started with the BIG-IP system
- Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- Using NATs and SNATs
- Using the Traffic Management Shell (tmsh)
- Monitoring application health and managing object status
- Modifying traffic behavior with profiles, including SSL offload (client SSL termination)
- Modifying traffic behavior with persistence, including source address affinity and cookie persistence
- Troubleshooting the BIG-IP system, including logging (local, high-speed, and legacy remote logging), monitoring the BIG-IP system remotely with SNMP, and using tcpdump
- Always-On Management (AOM)
- License, disk, boot location, and software management
- User roles and administrative partitions
- CMP and vCMP concepts
- Customizing application delivery with iRules