F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP Training Course
Today’s applications demand speed, reliability, and security, and that starts with effective traffic management. F5 BIG-IP sits at the heart of enterprise networks, enabling load balancing, application delivery, and security services at scale. But unlocking its full potential requires more than just plugging it in.
In this immersive, hands-on course, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how the BIG-IP system works and how to configure it for real-world application delivery. From setting up your first virtual server to configuring health monitors, SNATs, and persistence profiles, you’ll develop the skills needed to support and maintain BIG-IP environments with confidence.
Through a mix of expert-led instruction, interactive demos, and practical labs, this course equips you to take control of BIG-IP administration and optimize your organization’s application performance and availability.
After completing this course, you will be able to confidently manage and administer F5 BIG-IP systems to support critical application delivery needs. You’ll leave with hands-on experience and the skills to perform essential tasks in production environments.
- Set up, license, and configure the BIG-IP system
- Build and manage virtual servers, pools, and nodes
- Apply and manage profiles for optimized traffic handling
- Use monitors, SNATs, and persistence methods effectively
- Administer common tasks using the Configuration utility and TMSH
- Perform backup, restore, and basic troubleshooting
This course is intended for network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network. This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses.
- A solid understanding of the OSI model
- Familiarity with TCP/IP addressing and routing
- Basic knowledge of LAN/WAN environments
- Understanding of server redundancy and high availability concepts
- Introduction to the BIG-IP system and architecture
- Initial setup and licensing
- User roles and administrative access
- Overview of configuration objects
- Virtual servers, pools, and nodes
- Load balancing behavior and traffic flow
- Creating and applying health monitors
- Overview of profiles and their uses
- Optimizing traffic with profiles
- SNAT configuration and use cases
- Persistence methods and deployment
- Using connection mirroring
- Introduction to iApps for app deployment
- Creating and customizing iApps
- Monitoring and troubleshooting applications
- Backups, restores, and configuration archives
- Using logs and statistics for troubleshooting
- Basic command-line tasks with TMSH