Configuring BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) - V11 (BIGIPLTM)

This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP LTM system.

Students should understand:

• TCP/IP Addressing and Routing including
• The Address Resolution Protocol
• Direct and Indirect Routing
• TCP Handshakes
• Command Line Configuration including
• Commands and Parameters
• Command Line Access (DOS or UNIX)
• 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, and shell scripting
• TCL (Tool Control Language)

By the end of this course, the student should be able to setup an initial configuration and build many common and advanced configurations of BIG-IP LTM systems using either the Graphical User Interface or Command Line utilities. In addition, the student should be able to monitor and manage common tasks concerning traffic processed by a BIG-IP LTM system.

Topics covered in this course include:

• Installation and Licensing
• Virtual Servers and Pools and Load Balancing
• Profiles
• iRules
• Persistence
• Health Monitors
• SSL Termination and Certificate Management
• NATs and SNATs
• Highly Available Redundant System configurations
• tmsh (TM Shell) command line, SNMP and Logging
• BIG-IP Admin topics such as Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP), VLAN Management, and Administrative Domains
• A new v11 feature called iApps