Configuring BIG-IQ (TRG-BIQ-CFG)

This course uses lectures and hands-on exercises to give participants real-time experience in configuring and using the BIG-IQ® product. Students are introduced to BIG-IQ, its interface, and its va...

BIG-IQ Overview


- BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- BIG-IQ Approach
- BIG-IQ Core Functionality
- REST API
- BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD)
- BIG-IP Cloud Edition (CE)
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ System
Administering the BIG-IQ System


- Controlling Access to the BIG-IQ
- Creating, Authenticating, Configuring Users and their Roles
- System Backups
- Configuring DNS, NTP, and SMTP
- Monitoring the BIG-IQ, DCD, and BIG-IP events and alerts
- Monitoring BIG-IQ with iHealth
- Post Installation Issues; Licensing, Changing Management IP, Master Key, Restoring Backups
- Managing BIG-IP LTM Devices

- BIG-IP LTM Device Discovery
- BIG-IP Device Backup
- Deploying to BIG-IP Devices, Various Methods and Logs
- BIG-IQ Configuration Snapshots
- Managing BIG-IP Certificates
- Managing BIG-IP Licenses
- Monitoring BIG-IP Devices with iHealth
- Management of QKView Reports from Managed BIG-IP Devices
- Setting Up the BIG-IQ Data Collection Device
- Custom Role Types and Groups

- Setting up User Accounts with custom roles and privileges
- Managing BIG-IP DSC

- Discovery and management of BIG-IP Device Clusters (DSC) with BIG-IQ
- Administering BIG-IQ High Availability

- Configuration and m...

- Perform an initial setup, license, and provision of a BIG-IQ system
- Administer and monitor the BIG-IQ system
- Manage BIG-IP LTM devices using BIG-IQ
- Create, deploy, monitor, and report on BIG-IQ configuration changes
- Create, deploy, monitor, and report on managed BIG-IP device configuration changes
- Undertake various troubleshooting of the BIG-IQ functionality
- Perform an initial setup, license, and provision of a BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD)
- Configure a BIG-IQ to use a BI...

The course is for system and network administrators responsible for the installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IQ system. Or, it can be undertaken by operators who require some knowledge of how the systems are setup, but usually concentrate on performing particular operational tasks whether on BIG-IQ or via BIG-IQ on the managed BIG-IP devices.