F5 BIGIP LTM

• Lectures: 47
• Students: 98
• Duration: 13 hours

F5 BIGIP LTM – Local Traffic Manager

This course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. It also provides an in-depth understanding of advanced features and covers installation, configuration, and management of BIG-IP LTM systems.

Course Description:

This course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. It also provides an in-depth understanding of advanced features and covers installation, configuration, and management of BIG-IP LTM systems.

The course includes:

• 13  hours on-demand Video 
• In detail Theory
• Step by step Lab workbook
• Troubleshooting based Interview questions
• About Certification
• Bonus Topics 

Prerequisites: 

• OSI Model
• LAN vs. WAN
• Routing and switching
• Ethernet and ARP
• TCP/IP Concepts
• IP Addressing and Subnetting
• Network Address Translation

TOPICS:

Module 1: Local Traffic Manager [LTM] Basics

• What is Load Balancer
• Local Traffic Management
• Packet Based Design Vs Full Proxy Architecture
• LTM Features & Benefits

Module 2: Setting up the BIG IP System

• What’s Inside a BIG IP SYSTEM
• BIG-IP Platforms
• What’s outside a Hardware BIG IP SYSTEM
• Initial BIG-IP setup
• Licensing, Provisioning and Network Configuration

Module 3: Traffic Processing Building Blocks

• Local Traffic Objects – Node, Members, Pool and Virtual Server
• Virtual server Type and Default Settings
• Traffic Flow and Network Address Translation

Module 4: Load Balancing Methods

• Static Vs Dynamic Load Balancing Methods
• Load Balancing Methods: Member Vs Node
• Least connections, Fastest, static and Dynamic Ratio,
• Weighted Least connections, Observed, Predictive, etc.
• Priority Group Activation
• Fall Back Host

Module 5: Using NATs and SNATs

• Network Address Translation Overview
• Address Translation on the BIG-IP system
• Auto Map Vs SNAT Pool
• Secure/Source Address Translation
• Bi-Directional NAT

Module 6: Monitoring Application Health

• Overview of Monitors
• Types of Monitors
• Default Vs Custom Monitors

Module 7: Modifying Traffic Behavior with profiles

• Why Use profiles
• Default Vs. Custom Profiles
• Profile types –TCP, DNS,HTTP,One Connect, HTTP Compression etc.
• Profile Dependencies and co-existence

Module 8: Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence

• Understanding the need for persistence
• Persistence Concepts
• Persistence Types
• Source address affinity and cookie persistence

Module 9: Processing SSL traffic

• What are SSL/TLS and HTTPS
• SSL Certificates
• Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
• SSL Handshake
• SSL Offload and Termination
• SSL Profile Types – Client SSL Profile Vs Server SSL Profile

Module 10: iRules and Policies

• What is an iRule
• Basic iRule Elements
• iRule Examples
• Local Traffic Policy

Module 11: High Availability (HA)

• High Availability concepts
• BIG-IP Device Service Clustering (DSC)
• Traffic Group Concepts
• HA Deployment Modes
• Failover Options
• Connection Mirroring, Persistence Mirroring and SNAT Mirroring
• MAC Masquerading Concepts
• VLAN Failsafe

Module 12: Administration & Troubleshooting

• The BIG-IP system Log
• iHealth and Qkview
• Traffic Management Shell(TMSH) and Commands
• TCPDUMP
• BIG-IP configuration data
• UCS and SCF
• Loading & Saving system configuration
• Administrative partition

BONUS TOPICS:

• F5 BIGIQ Centralized Management
• Management Interface Routing
• Packet Filters
• Policies and iApps
• Route Domain and Administrative Partition
• TCPDUMP to capture Rotating Files
• Virtual Server Types and Order of precedence