Objective 3.02 of the 301a LTM specialist exam requires the candidate to have an understanding of the available cookie persistence options on a BIG-IP system. This post will detail the different options and look at implementing each one to understand what is going on. Cookie Persistence The BIG-IP system can make use of cookies to ensure the client is reconnected or persisted to the...
The BIG-IP system comes with a number of profiles straight of the box. Depending on your needs, these could be good go as they are. You can, of course, create your own custom profile should you need to tweak any setting according to your needs. This is the second part of a series to look at profiles on the BIG-IP system. The previous...
Objective 3.02 on the 301a blueprint is all about profiles. Profiles are ubiquitous on a BIG-IP system, they contain all the knobs to turn to control the behaviour of traffic as it flows through the system. This is the first of several posts that will look at all things profiles on the BIG-IP system. Stream Profile This post will look at the Stream...
The previous post we went through configuring HA between the two devices. In this post we'll look at how we can verify ConfigSync is working as expected. As noted on the very first post, I won't be convering failover or mirroring in this series. Verification & Testing At this point we should now have successfully setup an active/standby BIG-IP system as indicated by...
The previous post in this three part series provided an overview of some design decisions and requirements to setup HA. Now we're done doing all the pre-checks and have an understanding of the various DSC components we can go ahead and start configuring. In my experience the order in which you do these next few steps is not important except setting up the...
