F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP (F5Admin)
Course Overview

This course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of the BIG-IP system as it is commonly deployed in an application delivery network. The course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, interactive demonstrations, and discussions.

This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses.

Category

ID

Duration

Level

Price

F5 Networks

14130

2 Day(s)

Intermediate

$2,640.00

Questions?

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
OSI model, TCP/IP addressing and routing, WAN, LAN environments, and server redundancy concepts

F5 Networks Administering BIG-IP (F5Admin)

Class Schedule

Live Online

Location Date Time Register
Live - Online 09/21/2026 - 09/22/2026 7:00 AM - 3:00 AM PST Register
Live - Online 11/16/2026 - 11/17/2026 7:00 AM - 3:00 AM PST Register

Course Overview

This course gives network administrators, network operators, and network engineers a functional understanding of the BIG-IP system as it is commonly deployed in an application delivery network. The course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed. The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, interactive demonstrations, and discussions.

This course presents the prerequisite knowledge for many other of F5’s BIG-IP instructor-led training courses.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:
• Master the initial setup of BIG-IP systems, including software licensing, module provisioning, network configurations, device certificates, and platform properties.
• Understand the BIG-IP full proxy architecture and build essential traffic processing objects like nodes, pools, virtual servers, and health monitors.
• Configure and manage Network Address Translations (NATs/SNATs), routing, SSL offload/re-encryption, and session persistence (e.g., cookie persistence, source address affinity).
• Perform day-to-day administrative operations using both the Configuration utility graphical user interface (GUI) and the TMOS Shell (TMSH) command-line interface.
• Configure and manage active/standby setups, along with connection and persistence mirroring.
• Utilize logging methods (local, high-speed, and remote), run packet-level analysis with TCPDUMP, manage user roles and administrative partitions, and perform system backups and restores.

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