Manual Chapter :
Additional Requirements for a BIG-IQ Solution
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 7.1.0
Additional Requirements for a BIG-IQ Solution
Port requirements for a BIG-IQ solution
The BIG-IQ systems and data collection devices require bidirectional communication with the BIG-IP devices in your network to successfully manage them. The ports required must be open to allow for this required two-way communication. You might have to contact a firewall or network administrator to verify that these ports are open, or to have them opened if they are not.
The ports required for your BIG-IQ solution depend on a number of factors such as the services running on the devices you manage, the BIG-IP version running on those devices, and the number of subnets configured on your network.
For further information on how to configure ports for BIG-IP interfaces, refer to: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15612
1: Whether you use the management IP address or the self IP address depends on your network configuration. However, as detailed in https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K50040950, you cannot use a management IP address if you are using a high speed logging pool. For this connection, you can only use a self IP address. See https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17398 if you need to use an HSL Pool.
2: For clusters with multiple data collection devices, traffic must be able to originate from any device in the cluster.
3: For clusters with multiple data collection devices, the destination can be any device in the cluster.
4: This destination port is configurable.
Check the status of daemons running on BIG-IQ
Before you install or upgrade BIG-IQ , it's important to take inventory of the status of the running daemons. After you upgrade, you can verify the daemons' state, and make any necessary modifications. To view the daemons, type the following command in the BIG-IQ command line:
admin@(ip-10-1-1-4)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# show /sys service
.For further information about the daemons that run on BIG-IQ, refer to: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14736
Passwords required for BIG-IQ system deployment
To install and configure a BIG-IQ system or data
collection device (DCD) cluster, you use the default passwords for all of the devices. For DCD
clusters, if you intend to schedule regular snapshots of your logging data (as recommended),
you need root access credentials for the machine on which you plan to store these snapshots.
User Name | Default Password | Access Rights/Role |
|---|---|---|
admin | admin | This user type can access all aspects of the BIG-IQ
system from the system's user interface. |
root | default | This user has access to all aspects of the BIG-IQ
system from the system's console command line. |
Licenses required for BIG-IQ system deployment
The licensing requirements for installing and configuring
a BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) depend on how you intend to use it.
- To use a BIG-IQ VE to manage BIG-IP devices, you need a license.
- To use a BIG-IQ VE as a license manager, you do not need a license.
- To use a BIG VE as a data collection device (DCD) you do not need a license.
If you are installing and configuring a BIG-IQ DCD on a BIG-IQ
7000 Platform, you need a license.
BIG-IP device configuration requirements for viewing statistics from BIG-IQ
Before you can enable statistics collection for centralized management, you must ensure that the BIG-IP device has the proper configuration. The proper configuration varies depending on the version of the BIG-IP device. The minimum supported BIG-IP device is version 12.1.0. BIG-IQ has limited visibility for BIG-IP devices prior to 13.1.0.5.
For details about how to configure statistics visibility, based on the BIG-IP version, see
Enabling statistics collection during device discovery
on support.f5.com
.For details on how to access statistic information, based on the BIG-IP version and service, refer to
Statistics compatibility and visibility
on support.f5.com
.For details on how to configure the connection between your BIG-IP devices and your BIG-IQ data collection cluster, refer to
Connecting Devices to a Data Collection Device Cluster
on support.f5.com
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