Support IP pools for management addresses VMware service scaling groups

You can now configure VMware service scaling groups to use statically defined management IP addresses.

Application template switching

Previously you had to synchronize any changes you made to application templates. Now, you can clone and modify a template then switch to it when you want to use it.

Access policies

You can now attach Access policies to templates.

Upgrade support for BIG-IQ Centralized Management system versions policies

You can now upgrade BIG-IQ Centralized Management: Upgrading Version 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, or 6.0 to 6.0.1, with or without DCD clusters.

Intuitive visibility for all managed applications

Easy application troubleshooting based on application traffic and security data

For applications managed by BIG-IP versions 13.1.0.5 or later, you can now enable enhanced analytics to view detailed application data in real-time, which allows you to isolate traffic characteristics that are affecting your application's performance and security status.

Real-time notifications for monitored devices and applications

You can now receive real time events for BIG-IP devices and their connected applications, applications. These notifications are integrated into the BIG-IQ UI charts and allow you to pinpoint activities that are currently affecting your application.

Enhanced HTTP and Web Application Security visibility for all applications

You can use the HTTP and Web Application Security Dashboards to monitor all applications managed by BIG-IQ Centralized Management. These dashboards allow you to compare applications, pool members, and other aspects of traffic to your applications. In addition, the enhanced view includes real time events and alerts within the charts, and enhanced analytics data.

Added object and management support for DNS features

Creating, reading, updating, and deleting DNS GSLB objects, and listeners is now supported from the BIG-IQ user interface and the API.

Visibility into managed service scaling groups

An automatically scalable environment of BIG-IP VE devices can be defined to provide services to a set of applications. System administrators of BIG-IQ Centralized Management can monitor performance data for these BIG-IP VE devices. These including status notifications for virtual servers, pools and pool members. These notifications are integrated into the BIG-IQ UI charts and allow you to pinpoint activities that are currently affecting your application.

Added application visibility to pool and pool member data

You can now view application dimension data for the Pool & Pool Member dashboard.

Added object and management support for DNS features

Creating, reading, updating, and deleting DNS GSLB objects, and listeners is now supported from the BIG-IQ user interface and the API.

Enhanced DNS visibility and configuration

BIG-IQ provides the ability to configure and have an enhanced view into DNS traffic, which now includes both peak traffic values and average traffic values over a selected period of time.

Application templates

Enhanced application/service templates that make deployments simple and repeatable.

Security policies and profiles available in applications

You can now add security policies and profiles to applications, including Web Application Security policies, Network Security firewall policies, DoS profiles, and logging profiles.

Automatically deploy policy learning

You can now enable automatic deployment of policy learning using Web Application Security.

Extended ASM/advanced WAF management that includes

Enhanced AFM Management

APM enhancements

Manage cookie protection

You can now manage cookie protection for BIG-IP devices using Web Application Security.

Monitoring dashboard for Web Application Security statistics

You can review Web Application Security policy statistics using a graphical dashboard.

Enhanced support for NAT firewalls

You can now use the enhanced NAT firewall support in Network Security.

Subscriber support in firewall rules

You can now add subscriber IDs and groups to firewall rules in Network Security for BIG-IP devices that support them.

Firewall testing using packet flow reports

You can now create and view packet flow reports to test firewall configurations in Network Security.

Support for multiple BIG-IP devices with packet tester reports

You can now select multiple BIG-IP devices when generating packet tester reports in Network Security.

Renaming of firewall objects supported

You can now rename firewall objects, such as firewall policies in Network Security.

Enhanced support for DoS profiles, device DoS configurations, and scrubber profiles

You can now manage additional features of DoS profiles, device DoS configurations, and scrubber profiles that are found in BIG-IP version 13.1, such as new vectors, stress-based mitigation, DNS dynamic signatures, and VLAN support in scrubber profiles.

Copying device DoS configurations

You can now copy device DoS configurations from one BIG-IP device to multiple BIG-IP devices with the same version.

Viewing logs for DoS and firewall events in the user interface

You can now configure and view logging of DoS and firewall events, and for DoS events, see that information in a graphical format.

Security policies and profiles available in applications

You can now add security policies and profiles to applications, including Web Application Security policies, Network Security firewall policies, DoS profiles, and logging profiles.

Automatically deploy policy learning

You can now enable automatic deployment of policy learning using Web Application Security.

Manage DataSafe profiles

You can now manage DataSafe profiles using Fraud Protection Security.