Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

Students must complete one of the following:

• Administering BIG-IP V11 Instructor-led course
• BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Essentials course
• Achieve F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator certification

Students should understand:

• TCP/IP Addressing and Routing including: ?The Address Resolution Protocol
• Direct and Indirect Routing
• TCP Handshakes
• Command Line Configuration
• Common elements of and differences between WAN and LAN components
• Fundamental programming concepts

In addition, students should be proficient in:

• The Linux File System
• pico editor or vi editor
• The tcpdump program

• 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