F5 Course Content

1. BIG-IP System & TMOS
Architecture
1
Course Agenda
Initial Set Up and LTM
components
2
Load Balancing
3
Monitors
4
Command Line
5
NAT & SNAT
6
iRules
7
Device Service
Clusters
9
10
11
Profiles
Administration
iApp
Troubleshooting
LTM
12
8

2. 1. Setting up BIG IP System---
Introducing the BIG-IP System
Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
Configuring the Management Interface
Activating the Software License
Provisioning Modules and Resources
Importing a Device Certificate
Specifying BIG-IP Platform Properties
Configuring the Network
Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) Servers
Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Settings
Configuring High Availability Options

3. 2. Traffic Processing Building Blocks-----------
Introduction of F5 Terminologies
Virtual Server, Pool, Pool members, Node Concept
Packet flow of F5
Basic LAB setup
Health Monitor
Best practice of Health Monitor
Status Indicator

4. 3. Virtual Servers—
Detailed packet level explanation of different Types of
Virtual Servers
Virtual Server order of precedence

5. 4. Load balancing Techniques---
Different Types of Load balancing techniques
Tips to understand & remember Load balancing techniques
Practical of Load balancing techniques
Concept of Priority Group Activation
LAB of Priority Group Activation
Performance Monitor concept
Best practice for deciding which LB technique is best for which
application

6. 5. Profile—
Introduction to profiles
Understanding of Profile types and dependencies
What is best practice in profile
What TCP Profile and LAB of TCP Profile with wireshark packet explanation
What is HTTP Profile with wireshark packet analysis
How one connect works and its LAB
Explanation of SSL Offloading and SSL Re-Encryption
Best practice of SSL offloading

7. 6. Persistence---
What is HTTP and how it works
Difference between HTTP 1.0 HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 2
What is difference between session and connection
What made session to come into the picture
What is Cookie and why it came into picture
What is Persistence
What is Insert Cookie
What is Passive Cookie
What is Blank Rewrite
What is Source address affinity Persistence
LAB of Cookie and SAA Persistence

8. 7. Network Address Translation and Secure NAT---
Concept of NAT and SNAT
LAB of SNAT List
LAB of SNAT Pool
LAB of NAT List
Order or NAT
One ARM deployment and NAT Concept in one arm
Forwarding IP Virtual Server and NAT Concept in this.
Resolving routing issues with SNATs
Understanding of different NAT/SNAT scenarios

9. 8. iApp---------
Concept of iApp
Configuration objects of iApp
Practical LAB of iApp

10. 9. QKView and iHealth--------
QKView concept.
how to generate and upload QKView file.
Analysis of QKView file.

11. 10. Backup and Upgrade-----
Software update and patches
F5 Support
Types of backup
backup configuration.

12. 11. High Availability----
•Introducing Device Service Clustering (DSC)
•Preparing to Deploy a DSC Configuration
•Configuring DSC Communication Settings
•Establishing Device Trust
•Establishing a Sync-Failover Device Group
•Synchronizing Configuration Data
•Exploring Traffic Group Behaviour
•Understanding Failover Managers and Triggers
•Achieving Stateful Failover with Mirroring

13. 12. Logging in BIG-IP System-------
Local Logging
Remote Logging
Understanding of different sub types of logging
Configure Remote Logging
How to apply log filters
Understanding of HSL (High-Speed Logging)
HSL Configuration Objects
Configuration of HSL

14. 13. Troubleshooting with TCPDUMP----
Understand TCPDUMP
BIG-IP CLI Fundamentals
Troubleshoot with Connection CLI.

15. Now you have completed F5 and you would like to know more about F5, So more detailed interesting theory on F5 OS is kept at last
Here I will explain different components of F5 OS
Understanding the TMSH Hierarchical Structure
Navigating the TMSH Hierarchy
14. TMOS

16. 15. iRule------
iRule concept and practical