This 15-day course from Niasta covers F5 LTM (Load Balancer) configuration and management. The course contains 12 chapters that cover topics such as initial system setup, load balancing methods, persistence, monitors, virtual servers, SNATs, CLI configuration, high availability, profiles, selected topics like VLANs and policies, iApps application deployment templates, and iRules. The document provides an overview and outline of the course contents to help students learn the popular F5 LTM from experts in the field.

1. F5 LTM
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COURSE DURATION: 15 DAYS
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2. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 01: SETTING UP THE BIG-IP SYSTEM
Introducing the BIG-IP System
Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
Backing Up and Restoring BIG-IP Configurations
Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools

3. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 02: LOAD BALANCING
Static vs. Dynamic Load Balancing
Latest Connections
Fastest
Weighted Least Connections
Observed
Predictive
Dynamic Ratio
Priority Group Activation
Fallback Host
Load Balancing Member vs. Node

4. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 03: PERSISTENCE
Persistence Concepts
Persistence Revisited
Persistence Options
Other types of Persistence
CHAPTER 04: MONITORS
Monitor Configuration and Review
Monitor Assignment
Monitor Status Reporting
Scripted Monitors
Configuring Monitors
Other Monitor Options

5. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 05: VIRTUAL SERVERS
Forwarding Virtual Servers
Network Virtual Servers
Virtual Server Order of Precedence
Path Load Balancing
Auto Last Hop

6. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 06: SNAT’S
SNAT’s Revisited
SNAT Automap
SNAT Pools
SNAT’s as Listeners
SNAT’s Specificity
Additional SNAT Options
Network Packet Processing

7. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 07: CLI CONFIGURATION
BIG-IP Concepts
Command Line Configuration
BIG-IP Configuration Files
Archive Files

8. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 08: CONFIGURING HIGH AVAILABILITY
Sync-Failover Group Concepts
Synchronization State and Failover
Traffic Group Concepts
N+1 Concepts
Failover Triggers and Detection
VLAN Failsafe
Stateful Failover
Connection Mirroring
Device Group Communication
Sync-Only Device Groups

9. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 09: PROFILES
Profiles Review
Common Protocol Profile Types and Setting
TCP Express Optimization
Performance Improvements
Configuring and Using Profiles
HTTP Profile Options
OneConnect
HTTP Compression
HTTP Caching
Stream Profiles

10. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 10: SELECTED TOPICS
VLAN, VLAN Tagging and Trunking
Restricting Network Access
SNMP Features
Local Traffic Policies
CHAPTER 11: I-APPS
Simplifying Application Deployment with iApps
Using iApps Templates
Deploying an Application Service
Reconfiguring an Application Service

11. F5 LTM
CHAPTER 12: I-RULES
iRules Concepts
iRule Commands
Context
String Manipulation Commands

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