Course Description
This 2-day course uses lectures and hands-on exercises to give participants real-time experience configuring and using the BIG-IQ® product.
Students are introduced to BIG-IQ, its interface, and its various functions.
We first look at the building and configuring the BIG-IQ system. Once this initial classroom environment is built, we detail the steps to get going administering BIG-IQ, then use it to manage BIG-IP devices.
After this, we examine other system configurations:
- Setting up a BIG-IQ DCD logging device
- Building a BIG-IQ High Availability pair
- Managing BIG-IP devices in a cluster
Course Topics
- Introducing BIG-IQ
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ System
- Administering the BIG-IQ System
- Managing BIG-IP LTM Devices
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ DCD System
- Custom Roles and Groups
- Managing BIG-IP DSC
- Administering BIG-IQ High Availability
Prerequisites
BIG-IQ manages BIG-IP devices and their associated products, so you need to be familiar with BIG-IP and have knowledge and experience with general network technology.
For BIG-IP, students should have already completed a BIG-IP-based training course such as the Administering BIG-IP instructor-led course or further courses.
Free web-based training courses are available on the LearnF5 training hub (
https://www.f5.com/services/training) that are helpful for any student with limited BIG-IP administration and configuration experience.
- Getting Started with BIG-IP web-based training
- Getting Started with Local Traffic Manager (LTM) web-based training
The following general network technology knowledge and experience are recommended before attending any F5 Global Training Services instructor-led course:
- OSI model encapsulation
- Routing and switching
- TCP/IP concepts
- IP addressing and subnetting
- Network firewalls
- LAN vs. WAN
- HTTP Protocol
- Security and Authentication
Audience Profile
The course is for system and network administrators responsible for installing, configuring, configuring, and administrating the BIG-IQ system. Or, it can be undertaken by operators who require some knowledge of how the systems are set up but usually concentrate on performing particular operational tasks, whether on BIG-IQ or via BIG-IQ on the managed BIG-IP devices.
Learning Objectives
- Build the BIG-IQ system. Perform the initial setup, licensing, and configuration, then connect it to the network, so it's ready for use.
- Take an overall look at the BIG-IQ product suite. What does it include, and how does it approach BIG-IP centralized management?
- With the BIG-IQ configured, connect and explore system features, including the necessary initial tasks and associated steps.
- Bring your BIG-IP devices running LTM under central management by BIG-IQ. Discover their current configuration and create and deploy new traffic-passing objects to them.
- The BIG-IQ needs a DCD to manage BIG-IP statistics and log data, see how to set it up, and link it to the BIG-IQ system.
- Take a deeper look into user accounts on BIG-IQ and see how to create very granular reports which limit user access.
- BIG-IP allows multiple devices to be configured into clusters. Learn how BIG-IQ remotely manages these clusters.
- Configure two existing BIG-IQ systems into an active-standby pair. Create and synchronize configuration objects, fail the pair over, de-configure the team, and return them to standalone systems.
Content Outline
- BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- BIG-IQ Approach
- BIG-IQ Core Functionality
- REST API
- BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD)
- BIG-IP Cloud Edition (CE)
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ System
- Controlling Access to the BIG-IQ
- Creating, Authenticating, Configuring Users and their Roles
- System Backups
- Configuring DNS, NTP, and SMTP
- Monitoring the BIG-IQ, DCD, and BIG-IP events and alerts
- Monitoring BIG-IQ with iHealth
- Post Installation Issues; Licensing, Changing Management IP, Master Key, Restoring Backups
- Managing BIG-IP LTM Devices
- BIG-IP LTM Device Discovery
- BIG-IP Device Backup
- Deploying to BIG-IP Devices, Various Methods and Logs
- BIG-IQ Configuration Snapshots
- Managing BIG-IP Certificates
- Managing BIG-IP Licenses
- Monitoring BIG-IP Devices with iHealth
- Management of QKView Reports from Managed BIG-IP Devices
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ Data Collection Device
- Custom Role Types and Groups
- Setting up User Accounts with custom roles and privileges
- Managing BIG-IP DSC
- Discovery and management of BIG-IP Device Clusters (DSC) with BIG-IQ
- Administering BIG-IQ High Availability
- Configuration and management of BIG-IQ systems in a High Availability pair
FAQs
A: To attend the training session, you should have operational Desktops or Laptops with the required specification and a good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We would always recommend you attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly and get more value from your investment. However, if, due to some contingency, you have to skip the class, Radiant Techlearning will help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption and NOT for distribution or any commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing a Virtual Training environment for participants' hand-on-practice. Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the help of a remote desktop connection. Radiant virtual labs allow you to learn from anywhere in the world and any time zone.
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them in the natural world and Oriented industry projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills and knowledge and you will gain a better experience. These real-time projects will significantly help you in future tasks and assignments.