Hakkında
“F5 Local Traffic Manager” training, 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. Incorporating lecture,
extensive hands-on labs, and classroom discussion, the course helps students build the
well-rounded skill set needed to manage BIG-IP LTM systems as part of a flexible and
high-performance application delivery network.
Önkoşullar
Bilinmesi gereken konular:
Hakim olunması gereken konular:
- The Linux File System
- pico editor or vi editor
- the tcpdump program
- shell scripting
- TCL (Tool Control Language)
Kurs Süresi
Instructor-led training: 3 days with hands-on lab practice
Virtual instructor-led training: 3 days of web-based classes with hands-on lab practice
Kurs İçeriği
This course gives network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), introducing students to both commonly used and advanced LTM features. Incorporating lecture, extensive hands-on labs, and classroom discussion, the course helps students build the well-rounded skill set needed to manage BIG-IP LTM systems as part of a flexible and high performance application delivery network.
Topics covered in this course include:
- Set up the BIG-IP LTM System
- Load Balancing, including priority group activation and connection limits
- Persistence concepts, including universal persistence and match across services
- Monitors, including scripted monitors and managing multiple monitors
- Profiles, including compression, caching, and F5 acceleration technologies
- Deploying iApps
- Highly Availability, including Sync-Failover and Sync-Only device groups, traffic groups, and N+1 concepts
- Forwarding and network virtual servers, path load balancing, and auto last hop
- Configuring local traffic policies
- Implementing SNATs
- IPv6 and route domains
- Configuring iRules
Kurs Hedefleri
• Back up the BIG-IP system configuration for safekeeping
• Configure virtual servers, pools, monitors, profiles, and persistence objects
• Test and verify application delivery through the BIG-IP system using local traffic
statistics
• Configure priority group activation on a load balancing pool to allow servers to be
activated only as needed to process traffic
• Compare and contrast member-based and node-based dynamic load balancing
methods
• Configure connection limits to place a threshold on traffic volume to particular pool
members and nodes
• Differentiate between cookie, SSL, SIP, universal, and destination address affinity
persistence, and describe use cases for each
• Describe the three Match Across Services persistence options and use cases for each
• Configure health monitors to appropriately monitor application delivery through a BIGIP system
• Configure different types of virtual services to support different types of traffic
processing through a BIG-IP system
• Configure different types of SNATs to support routing of traffic through a BIG-IP
system
• Configure VLAN tagging and trunking
• Restrict administrative and application traffic through the BIG-IP system using packet
filters, port lockdown, and virtual server settings
• Configure SNMP alerts and traps in support of remote monitoring of the BIG-IP
system
• Use an F5-supplied iApp template to deploy and manage a website application
service
• Use iRules and local traffic policies appropriately to customize application delivery
through the BIG-IP system
• Configure the BIG-IP to detect and mitigate some common attacks at the network
and application layers using LTM features such as SYN check, eviction policies, iRules
and Local Traffic Policies
Ders İçeriği
Chapter 1: Setting Up the BIG-IP System
- Introducing the BIG-IP System
- Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
- Backing Up and Restoring BIG-IP Configurations
- Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools
- BIG-IP System Setup Labs
Chapter 2: Review and Lab Project
- BIG-IP Concepts
- Command Line Configuration
- BIG-IP Configuration Files
- Archive Files
Chapter 3: Load Balancing
- Static vs. Dynamic Load Balancing
- Least Connections
- Fastest
- Weighted Least Connections
- Observed
- Predictive
- Dynamic Ratio
- Priority Group Activation
- Fallback Host
- Load Balancing: Member vs. Node
Chapter 4: Persistence
- Persistence Concepts
- Persistence Revisited
- Persistence Options
- Other types of Persistence
Chapter 5: Monitors
- Monitor Configuration and Review
- Monitor Assignment
- Monitor Status Reporting
- Scripted Monitors
- Configuring Monitors
- Other Monitor Options
Chapter 6: Virtual Servers
- Forwarding Virtual Servers
- Network Virtual Servers
- Virtual Server Order of Precedence
- Path Load Balancing
- Auto Last Hop
Chapter 7: SNATs
- SNATs Revisited
- SNAT Automap
- SNAT Pools
- SNATs as Listeners
- SNAT Specificity
- VIP Bounceback
- Additional SNAT Options
- Network Packet Processing
Chapter 8: Configuring High Availability
- Sync-Failover Group Concepts
- Synchronization, State and Failover
- Traffic Group Concepts
- N+1 Concepts
Chapter 9: Configuring High Availability Part 2
- Failover Triggers and Detection
- VLAN Failsafe
- Stateful Failover
- Connection Mirroring
- Persistence Mirroring
- Device Group Communication
- N+1 Availability
- Sync-Only Device Groups
Chapter 10: Profiles
- Profiles Review
- Common Protocol Profile Types and Settings
- TCP Express Optimization
- Performance Improvements
- Configuring and Using Profiles
- HTTP Profile Options
- OneConnect™
- HTTP Compression
- HTTP Caching
- Stream Profiles
- F5 Acceleration Technologies
- Analytics
Chapter 11: Selected Topics
- VLAN, VLAN Tagging, and Trunking
- Restricting Network Access
- SNMP Features
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- Route Domains
- Local Traffic Policies
Chapter 12: iApps
- Simplifying Application Deployment with iApps
- Using iApps Templates
- Deploying an Application Service
- Reconfiguring an Application Service
- Leveraging the iApps Ecosystem on DevCentral
Chapter 13: iRules
- iRules Concepts
- iRule Events
- iRule Commands
- Context
- String Manipulation Commands
- Other iRule Concerns
Kimler Katılmalı
This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for installation,
setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.
Sınavlar
F5-CTS LTM Requirements
– F5-CA Certification
