Manual Chapter :
What do I do After Everything is Set up and Configured?
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 8.2.0, 8.1.0
What do I do After Everything is Set up and Configured?
What do I do after I deploy the BIG-IQ?
After you have licensed the BIG-IQ, you have a couple of options.
- If you plan to use BIG-IQ only as a license server, refer toDeploy BIG-IQ to use as a license manager for BIG-IP VE devicesonsupport.f5.com.
- If you plan to use the BIG-IQ to manage devices, you must discover devices from BIG-IQ. To learn about how to do that, refer toHow do I start managing BIG-IP devices from BIG-IQ?in theManaging BIG-IP Devices from BIG-IQguide onsupport.f5.com.
What do I do after I deploy the DCD?
After you license the data collection device, you have a few options.
- To use the BIG-IQ to manage applications in the cloud, use the end to end workflow that best matches you requirements:
- Managing Applications in an Auto-Scaled AWS Cloud from BIG-IQonsupport.f5.com
- Managing Applications in an Auto-Scaled Azure Cloud from BIG-IQonsupport.f5.com
- Managing Applications in an Auto-Scaled VMware Environment from BIG-IQonsupport.f5.com
- To use BIG-IQ analytics to monitor the health of BIG-IP devices, you must first add and discover services for those devices. For information about how to add devices and discover their services, refer toHow do I start managing BIG-IP devices from BIG-IQ?in theManaging BIG-IP Devices from BIG-IQguide onsupport.f5.com.
- For details about using BIG-IQ analytics, start with theStatistics Monitoring Overviewchapter of theSetting up and Configuring a BIG-IQ Centralized Management Solutionguide onsupport.f5.com.
- To use BIG-IQ to manage the alerts and events generated by your devices, refer to the documentation for the services that generate those alerts or events.
For this service | Refer to this content |
|---|---|
APM | Discovering and Deploying Access Configurations Using BIG-IQ |
DNS | Managing DNS and DNS GSLB Objects Using BIG-IQ |
FPS | BIG-IQ: Fraud Protection Service |
IPsec | F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: Local Traffic & Network Implementations |
AFM or ASM | F5 BIG-IQ: Security |
