F5 BIG IP Administration - F5 EXAM 201 Preparation

Set up the Big-IP appliance by configuring the management IP, licensing (automatic or manual activation and add-ons), and resource provisioning, then access via CLI or GUI to complete setup utility.

Configure two VLANs and two self IPs on a BIG-IP to expose external and server facing IPs for three web servers in a load balanced setup.

Build a basic load balancing setup with three nodes, a pool, and a virtual server, and manage node health with default or node-specific ICMP monitors.

Learn how to configure health monitors, reselect retries, and availability rules for pools and virtual servers on BIG-IP, using ICMP and HTTP monitors, plus address lists and source restrictions.

Configure a dns pool and dns monitor to test dns server health by sending a dns query for a specific record and expecting a response on port 53.

Explore dynamic load balancing via the least connections method, evaluating pool members and nodes by current active connections across pools, with lab demos for member-based and node-based configurations.

Learn how dynamic load balancing uses ratio least connections to allocate traffic across pool members and nodes, maintaining configured ratios and round robin between equal members.

Explore priority groups in Big-IP, defining active and standby pool members, enabling priority group activation, and using thresholds to promote standby members during failures.

Attach a source ip persistence profile to a virtual server to keep a client's requests on the same pool member for a period, using persistence records and subnet prefix length.

Configure routing on the big-ip with static routes for subnet 172.16.1.0/24 and a default route to the internet, using the routing and management routing tables.