F5
Configuring BIG-IP LTM
Local Traffic Manager
À propos de ce cours
Local Traffic Manager is the load-balancing and traffic-management heart of BIG-IP, and this course builds a working command of it, from commonly used features through more advanced functionality. Students learn to configure virtual servers, pools and load-balancing methods, tune application health monitoring and apply the right kind of persistence. The advanced portion covers options such as VLAN tagging and trunking, SNMP, packet filters and route domains, customising delivery with iRules and local traffic policies, and mitigating common network-layer and application-layer attacks with LTM features.
This opens Red Education's F5 training page, not a booking form for this course. When you get in touch, quote the course name, Configuring BIG-IP LTM, and if you would like me to teach it, ask for me by name: instructor allocation stays with Red Education and depends on schedule and region.
Prerequisites
- Administering BIG-IP2 days
- F5 asks for a basic understanding of BIG-IP local traffic concepts (virtual servers, pools, health monitors and profiles) and suggests familiarity with web application delivery, TCP, HTTP and TLS/SSL.
Certification relevance
Related certification, by topic overlap (not a vendor statement): F5 Certified Technology Specialist, BIG-IP LTM (F5-CTS, BIG-IP LTM)
F5 does not publish a course-to-exam mapping on a public page: its certification-training page asks for a sign-in (checked 25 October 2026). This pairing is the instructor's reading of where the course topics and the exam objectives overlap, not a vendor statement.
- F5CTSLTM1-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist Base Configuration and Networking Setupfree guide
- F5CTSLTM2-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist Virtual Server and Local Traffic Configuration Objectsfree guide
- F5CTSLTM3-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist iRules, Analytics and Templatesfree guide
- F5CTSLTM4-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist Software Upgrades, HA Configuration, and Device Monitoringfree guide
- F5CTSLTM5-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist Packet Capture/Troubleshooting - TCP/UDP/Application Layerfree guide
- F5CTSLTM6-B: BIG-IP LTM Specialist Packet Capture/Troubleshooting - TLS/SSLfree guide
No course awards a certification by itself: a credential comes only from passing the vendor's exam or assessment.
Recommended next course
No fixed next course.
F5 publishes no fixed course to follow this one. The module courses build on the same BIG-IP base, so the next course is the one for the module your team runs.
Course outline (summary)
- 01Setting up the BIG-IP system
- 02Reviewing local traffic configuration
- 03Load balancing traffic with LTM
- 04Modifying traffic behaviour with persistence
- 05Monitoring application health in depth
- 06Processing traffic with virtual servers
- 07Processing traffic with SNATs
- 08Modifying traffic behaviour with profiles
- 09Selected topics: NATs, route domains, packet filters
- 10Customising application delivery with iRules and policies
- 11Mitigating common attacks with LTM
This outline is a summary in my own words, not the vendor's agenda. The official outline is the vendor's own page: Configuring BIG-IP LTM: Local Traffic Manager.
F5's course page publishes the description and objectives (and the online edition's running time), not a module list or a courseware version.
Vendor course identifier: F5-TRG-BIG-LTM-CFG-3-SDT
Source read on 25 octobre 2026: verified.
Last successful verification of this course: 25 octobre 2026.