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Manual: BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: Implementations
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Original Publication Date: 04/11/2012

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Introducing Implementations for the Global Traffic Manager
Introducing the Global Traffic Manager
Introducing implementations
Delegating DNS Traffic to Wide IPs
Working with the Global Traffic Manager and DNS traffic
Delegating DNS traffic to wide IPs
Modifying the existing DNS server
Configuring a listener
Replacing a DNS Server with the Global Traffic Manager
Working with the Global Traffic Manager and DNS traffic
Replacing a DNS server with the Global Traffic Manager
Configuring the DNS server for zone transfers
Creating a hint zone
Acquiring zone files
Designating the Global Traffic Manager as the primary DNS server
Configuring a listener
Securing Your DNS Infrastructure
Introducing DNSSEC compliance
Configuring DNSSEC compliance
Adding a Global Traffic Manager system to a network that contains other BIG-IP systems
Adding an additional Global Traffic Manager system to a network
Configuring DNSSEC keys and zones
Load Balancing Non-Wide IP Traffic to a Pool of DNS Servers
About using the Global Traffic Manager as a load balancer in front of a pool of DNS servers
Creating a pool of DNS servers
Creating a listener
Sending Traffic Through the Global Traffic Manager
Working with the Global Traffic Manager as a router or forwarder
Forwarding traffic through the Global Traffic Manager
Placing the Global Traffic Manager to forward traffic
Configuring a VLAN group
Forwarding traffic to a DNS server
Routing traffic through the Global Traffic Manager
Placing the Global Traffic Manager to route traffic
Routing traffic to a DNS server
Ensuring Correct Synchronization When Adding a New Global Traffic Manager
Understanding synchronization in the Global Traffic Manager
Adding a new Global Traffic Manager to a synchronization group safely
Adding the Global Traffic Manager
Enabling synchronization
Running the gtm_add script
Running the bigip_add script
Integrating the Global Traffic Manager with BIG-IP Systems
Understanding the interactions between BIG-IP systems
Integrating the Global Traffic Manager with other BIG-IP systems
Defining a data center
Defining the Global Traffic Manager
Adding BIG-IP systems
Running the big3d_install script
Setting Up a Global Traffic Manager Redundant System Configuration
Understanding Global Traffic Manager redundant system configurations
Setting up a Global Traffic Manager redundant system configuration
Configuring the redundant system settings
Creating VLANs
Assigning self IP addresses
Creating a floating IP address
Configuring the high availability options
Defining an NTP server
Defining the default gateway route
Defining a listener
Running a config sync operation
Defining a data center
Defining the Global Traffic Manager systems
Enabling synchronization
Running the gtm_add script
Authenticating with SSL Certificates Signed by a Third Party
Understanding SSL authentication
Understanding BIG-IP system certificate authentication
Configuring a level one SSL authentication for a Global Traffic Manager
Importing the root certificate for the gtmd agent
Setting the certificate depth for the gtmd agent
Importing the root certificate for the big3d agent on the Global Traffic Manager
Setting the Big3d.CertificateDepth variable for the Global Traffic Manager
Importing the device certificate signed by the CA server onto the Global Traffic Manager
Verifying the certificate exchange
Configuring a certificate chain for a Global Traffic Manager system
Importing a certificate chain for the gtmd agent
Setting the certificate depth for the gtmd agent
Setting the Big3d.CertificateDepth variable
Importing the certificate chain for the big3d agent
Importing a device certificate
Verifying the certificate chain exchange
Configuring SSL authentication for a BIG-IP system that includes a Local Traffic Manager
Setting certificate depth for the big3d agent on the Local Traffic Manager
Replacing the self-signed certificate for the big3d agent on the Local Traffic Manager
Importing a device certificate onto the Local Traffic Manager
Monitoring Third-Party Servers with SNMP
Overview of SNMP
Assigning the SNMP monitor to a third-party server
Adding the server
Adding a virtual server
Creating an SNMP monitor
Assigning the monitor
Using tmsh to Set Up Implementations
Using tmsh for different implementations
Setting up a stand-alone system
Provisioning the system
Configuring the global settings
Creating a data center
Defining a server
Creating virtual servers to host the site content
Creating a pool
Creating a wide IP
Creating a listener
Adding a system to a network that contains Local Traffic Manager systems
Provisioning the system
Creating a data center
Defining a server for the system
Defining servers for the Local Traffic Manager systems
Running the bigip_add or big3d_install utility
Creating a listener
Adding a system to a network that contains other Global Traffic Manager systems
Provisioning the new system
Creating a data center on an existing system
Defining a server for the new system on an existing system
Adding a synchronization group to an existing system
Running the gtm_add utility
Creating a listener