F5CAB4
BIG-IP Administration Control Plane Administration
Part of F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP
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F5CAB4: BIG-IP Administration Control Plane Administration
F5CAB4.01 Apply procedural concepts required to manage the state of a high availability pair
What to know:- Execute force to standby procedure
- Report current active/standby failover state
- Execute force to offline procedure
- Show device trust status
F5CAB4.02 Identify management connectivity configurations
What to know:- Identify the configured management-IP address
- Interpret port lockdown settings to Self-IP
- Show remote connectivity to the BIG-IP Management interface
- Explain management IP connectivity issue
- Identify HTTP/SSH access list to management-IP address
F5CAB4.03 Identify and report current device status
What to know:- Interpret the LCD panel warning messages
- Use the dashboard to gauge the current running status of the system
- Review the Network Map in order to determine the status of objects
- Interpret current systems status via GUI or TMSH
- Interpret high availability and device trust status
Tools: f5-tmsh-config-explainerF5CAB4.04 List which log files could be used to find events and/or hardware issues
What to know:- Identify use of /var/log/ltm, /var/log/secure, /var/log/audit
- Identify severity log level of an event
- Identify event from a log message
On this site: The BIG-IP Log Files: a Map of /var/logF5CAB4.05 Apply procedural concepts required to create, manage, and restore a UCS archive
What to know:- Execute UCS backup procedure
- Execute UCS restore procedure
- Summarize the use case of a UCS backup
- Explain proper long-term storage of UCS backup file
- Explain the contents of the UCS file (private keys)
On this site: UCS Archives: the BIG-IP Backup That Contains EverythingF5CAB4.06 Explain authentication methods
What to know:- Explain how to create a user
- Explain how to modify user properties
- Explain options for remote authentication provider
- Explain use of groups using remote authentication provider
F5CAB4.07 Identify configured system services
What to know:- Show proper configuration for: DNS, NTP, SNMP, syslog
F5CAB4.08 Explain config sync
What to know:- Demonstrate config sync procedure
- Report errors which occur during config sync
- Explain when a config sync is necessary
- Show config sync status
- Compare configuration timestamp
On this site: Config Sync on BIG-IP: When to Sync, and Why It FailsF5CAB4.09 Given a scenario, determine device upgrade eligibility
What to know:- Determine when to upgrade software
- Determine when to upgrade platform
- Determine steps to minimize upgrade downtime
F5CAB4.10 Given a scenario, interpret Service status
What to know:- Compare active vs inactive ADC elements
- Infer services for given netstat output
- Determine whether a service is listening on a given port based on netstat output
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