Manual :
BIG-IP Controller Reference Guide, version 4.1
Applies To:
Show Versions
BIG-IP versions 1.x - 4.x
- 4.1.1 PTF-06, 4.1.1 PTF-05, 4.1.1 PTF-04, 4.1.1 PTF-03, 4.1.1 PTF-02, 4.1.1 PTF-01, 4.1.1, 4.1.0
Original Publication Date: 09/27/2007
Introduction
Getting started
Using the Administrator Kit
What's new in version 4.1
- Support for the IP Application Switch platform
- SSL-to-server
- Startup enhancements
- Enhanced interface statistics
- Health monitor enhancements
- Port mirroring
- Spanning tree protocol support
- Web-based Configuration utility enhancements
Learning more about the BIG-IP product family
BIG-IP Overview
Introduction
What is a BIG-IP?
Configuration
- Hardware configuration
- Base network configuration
- High-level network configuration
- Global settings and filters
Monitoring and administration
The BIG-IP user interface
Configuring the Base Network
Introduction
Interfaces
- Interface naming convention
- Displaying status for interfaces
- Setting the media type
- Setting the duplex mode
VLANs
- Interface group VLANs and the default VLAN mapping
- VLAN grouping and L2 forwarding
- Tagged VLANs
- VLAN commands
- Setting the MAC masquerade address
- Viewing and editing the L2 forwarding table
- Setting the L2 forwarding aging time
Self IP address
Trunks
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Creating and deleting STP domains
- Setting time intervals for an STP domain
- Adding or deleting interfaces in an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling interfaces in an STP domain
Port Mirroring
Configuring the High-Level Network
Introduction
Pools, load balancing, and persistence
- Creating pools
- Load Balancing
- Priority based member activation
- Persistence
- HTTP redirect (specifying a fallback host)
- Rule statements
- Operators
- Cache statement syntax
- Additional rule examples
- Defining standard virtual servers
- Defining wildcard virtual servers
- Configuring a network virtual server
- Mirroring virtual server state
- Additional virtual server options
Address translation: SNATs, NATs, and IP forwarding
Configuring Filters
Configuring a Redundant System
Introduction
Synchronizing configurations between units
Configuring fail-safe settings
Mirroring connection and persistence information
Using gateway fail-safe
Using network-based fail-over
Setting a specific BIG-IP to be the preferred active unit
Setting up active-active redundant BIG-IP units
- Configuring an active-active system
- Understanding active-active system fail-over
- Introducing additional active-active BIG/db configuration parameters
- Reviewing specific active-active bigpipe commands
- Returning an active-active installation to active/standby mode
BIG-IP Base Configuration Tools
Introducing the BIG-IP base configuration tools
- Selecting a keyboard
- Product selection
- Defining a root password
- Defining a host name
- Configuring a default route
- Setting up a redundant system
- Configuring interfaces
- Defining VLANs and IP addresses
- Assigning interfaces to VLANs
- Selecting the primary IP address
- Configuring settings for remote web access
- Configuring a time zone
- Configuring the DNS forwarding proxy settings
- Configuring remote command line access
- NTP support
- NameSurfer
bigpipe Command Reference
- Synchronizing configuration files
- Saving configuration files to an archive
- Installing an archived configuration file
- Showing, disabling, and deleting monitors
- Monitor templates
- Send, receive and get statements
- Transparent and reverse modes
- Testing SQL service checks
- Running user-added EAVs
- Node and port aliasing
- Using wildcards to specify node addresses and ports
- Marking nodes and node ports up and down
- Setting connection limits for nodes and node addresses
- Displaying status of all nodes
- Associating a health monitor with a node
- Creating a pool
- Activating HTTP cookie persistence
- Activating sticky persistence
- Activating SSL persistence
- Specifying priority based member activation
- Specifying a fallback host for HTTP redirect
- To create a client-side SSL gateway
- Creating a client-side and server-side SSL gateway from the command line
- Configuring a content converter
- Disabling ARP requests
- Disabling VLANs for a gateway
- Adding a last hop pool to a gateway from the command line
- Enabling, disabling, or deleting a gateway from the command line
- Displaying configuration information for a gateway from the command line
- Setting connection limits on services
- Displaying service settings
- Configuring TCP services
- Configuring UDP services
- Defining the default SNAT
- Creating individual SNAT addresses
- Creating a network SNAT address
- SNAT auto-mapping
- Deleting SNAT Addresses
- Disabling VLANs for a SNAT
- Showing SNAT mappings
- Limiting connections
- Enabling mirroring for redundant systems
- Setting idle connection timeouts
- Disabling ARP requests
- Clearing statistics
- Creating and deleting STP domains
- Setting time intervals for an STP domain
- Adding or deleting interfaces in an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling interfaces in an STP domain
- Defining a virtual server
- Displaying information about virtual servers
- Disabling VLANs for a virtual server
- Disabling ARP requests
- Setting a user-defined netmask and broadcast for a network virtual server
- Setting a connection limit
- Setting translation properties for virtual addresses and ports
- Setting up last hop pools for virtual servers
- Mirroring virtual server state
- Enabling and disabling a virtual server
- Enabling and disabling a virtual address
- Displaying information about virtual addresses
- Deleting a virtual server
- Turning software acceleration off for virtual servers using IPFW rate filters
- Enabling and disabling Any IP
- Creating and assigning a VLAN
- Tagged VLANs
- Enabling and disabling port lockdown
- Setting the fail-over timeout and arming the fail-safe
- Enabling and disabling SNAT auto-mapping
- Setting the MAC masquerade address
- Viewing and editing the L2 forwarding table
- Setting the L2 forwarding aging time
Configuring SNMP
Introduction
Downloading the MIBs
Configuring SNMP using the Configuration utility
SNMP configuration files
BIG/db Configuration Keys
Supported BIG/db configuration keys
Configuration Files
BIG-IP configuration files 10-1
Monitoring and Administration
Monitoring and administration utilities
Using the bigpipe utility as a monitoring tool
- Monitoring the BIG-IP
- Monitoring virtual servers, virtual addresses and services
- Monitoring nodes and node addresses
- Monitoring NATs
- Monitoring SNATs
- Viewing the status of the interface cards
Using the Configuration utility for administration and monitoring
Working with the BIG/top utility
Working with the Syslog utility
Removing and returning items to service
- Removing the BIG-IP from service
- Removing individual virtual servers, virtual addresses, and ports from service
- Removing individual nodes and node addresses from service
- Viewing the currently defined virtual servers and nodes
Viewing system statistics and log files
Printing the connection table
Changing passwords
Working with the BIG/db database
Working with the BIG/stat utility
