Manual :
BIG-IP Controller Reference Guide, version 4.0
Applies To:
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BIG-IP versions 1.x - 4.x
- 4.0 PTF-04, 4.0 PTF-03, 4.0 PTF-02, 4.0 PTF-01, 4.0.0
Original Publication Date: 09/27/2007
Introduction
Getting started
Using the Administrator Kit
What's new in version 4.0
- 3-DNS on the BIG-IP Controller
- OneConnectTM content switching with HTTP Keep-Alives
- Bridging and Layer 2 forwarding
- HTTP Redirect pool property
- Load balance any IP protocol
- Link aggregation and fail-over
- On-the-fly content converter
- SNAT automap feature
- Health monitors
- Performance monitors
- Default controller configuration
- Web-based Configuration utility enhancements
Learning more about the BIG-IP Controller product family
Configuring the BIG-IP Controller
Introduction
Pools
Load Balancing
- Understanding individual load balancing modes
- Setting the load balancing method for a pool
- Setting ratio weights and priority levels for node addresses
- Configuring servers and the BIG-IP Controller for Dynamic
Ratio load balancing
Setting up persistence for a pool
- Basic types of persistence
- Advanced types of Persistence
- Setting up SSL persistence
- Setting up simple persistence
- Using HTTP cookie persistence
- Using destination address affinity (sticky persistence)
- Using a simple timeout and a persist mask on a pool
- Maintaining persistence across virtual servers that use the
same virtual addresses - Maintaining persistence across all virtual servers
- HTTP redirect (specifying a fallback host)
Rules
Rule statements
- Questions (expressions)
- Constant operands
- Variable operands (variables)
- HTTP request string variables
- Configuring rules
- Configuring virtual servers that reference rules
Cache statement syntax
Additional rule examples
Virtual servers
Using standard or wildcard virtual servers
Configuring a network virtual server
Mirroring virtual server state
Additional virtual server options
Proxies
Nodes
Services
Address translation & forwarding
NATs
SNATs
Forwarding
VLANs, self IPs, interfaces & trunks
VLANs
- Default VLAN mapping with grouping
- Creating, renaming, and deleting VLANs
- VLAN group
- Tagging VLANs
- Setting up security for VLANs
- Setting fail-safe timeouts for VLANs
- Setting the MAC masquerade address
Self IP address
Interface
- Interface naming convention
- Displaying status for interfaces
- Setting the media type
- Setting the duplex mode
Trunks
Health monitors
Selecting the monitor template
- Working with templates for simple monitors
- Working with templates for ECV monitors
- Working with templates for EAV monitors
Configuring a monitor
- Entering string values
- Setting destinations
- Using send, receive, url, and get statements
- Using transparent and reverse modes
- Testing SQL service checks
- Running user-added EAVs
- Showing, disabling, and deleting monitors
Associating the monitor with a node or nodes
Redundant systems
Synchronizing configurations between controllers
Configuring fail-safe settings
Mirroring connection and persistence information
Using gateway fail-safe
Using network-based fail-over
Setting a specific BIG-IP Controller to be the preferred active unit
Setting up active-active redundant controllers
- Configuring an active-active system
- Understanding active-active system fail-over
- Introducing additional active-active BIG/db configuration
parameters - Reviewing specific active-active bigpipe commands
- Returning an active-active installation to active/standby mode
Filters
IP filters
Rate filters and rate classes
bigpipe Command Reference
bigpipe commands
-?
config
- Synchronizing configuration files
- Saving configuration files to an archive
- Installing an archived configuration file
conn
failover
global
-h and -help
interface
load
maint
makecookie
merge
monitor
- Showing, disabling, and deleting monitors
- Monitor templates
- Send, receive and get statements
- Transparent and reverse modes
- Testing SQL service checks
- Running user-added EAVs
- Node and port aliasing
- Using wildcards to specify node addresses and ports
-n
nat
- Defining a NAT
- Disabling VLANs for a NAT
- Viewing a controller's unit ID number
- Disabling ARP requests
node
- Marking nodes and node ports up and down
- Setting connection limits for nodes and node addresses
- Displaying status of all nodes
- Associating a health monitor with a node
pool
- Creating a pool
- Activating HTTP cookie persistence
- Activating sticky persistence
- Activating SSL persistence
- Specifying priority based member activation
- Specifying a fallback host for HTTP redirect
proxy
- Creating an SSL gateway
- Configuring a content converter
- Disabling ARP requests
- Enabling, disabling, or deleting a gateway
- Disabling VLANs for a gateway
- Displaying gateway configuration information
- Adding a last hop pool to a gateway from the command line
ratio
reset
rule
save
self
service
- Setting connection limits on services
- Displaying service settings
- Configuring TCP services
- Configuring UDP services
snat
- Defining the default SNAT
- Creating individual SNAT addresses
- Creating a network SNAT address
- SNAT auto-mapping
- Deleting SNAT Addresses
- Disabling VLANs for a SNAT
- Showing SNAT mappings
- Limiting connections
- Enabling mirroring for redundant systems
- Setting idle connection timeouts
- Disabling ARP requests
- Clearing statistics
summary
trunk
unit
verbose
verify
version
virtual
- Defining a virtual server
- Displaying information about virtual servers
- Disabling VLANs for a virtual server
- Disabling ARP requests
- Setting a user-defined netmask and broadcast for a network
virtual server - Setting a connection limit
- Setting translation properties for virtual addresses and ports
- Setting up last hop pools for virtual servers
- Mirroring virtual server state
- Enabling and disabling a virtual server
- Enabling and disabling a virtual address
- Displaying information about virtual addresses
- Deleting a virtual server
- Turning software acceleration off for virtual servers using IPFW
rate filters - Enabling and disabling Any IP
vlan
- Creating and assigning a VLAN
- Tagged VLANs
- Enabling and disabling port lockdown
- Setting the fail-over timeout and arming the fail-safe
- Enabling and disabling SNAT auto-mapping
- Setting the MAC masquerade address
vlangroup
BIG-IP Controller Base Configuration Tools
Introducing the BIG-IP Controller base configuration tools
config
- Selecting a keyboard
- Product selection
- Defining a root password
- Defining a host name
- Configuring a default route
- Setting up a redundant system
- Configuring interfaces
- Defining VLANs and IP addresses
- Assigning interfaces to VLANs
- Selecting the primary IP address
- Configuring settings for remote web access
- Configuring a time zone
- Configuring the DNS forwarding proxy settings
- Configuring remote command line access
- NTP support
- NameSurfer
config combo
config dns
config ftpd
config httpd
config password
config redundant
config remote
config rshd
config sshd
config telnetd
config timezone
BIG/db Configuration Keys
Supported BIG/db configuration keys
- Displaying current setting of a BIG/db configuration key
- Setting a BIG/db configuration key
- Unsetting a BIG/db configuration key
- Failover and Cluster keys
- StateMirror keys
- Using Gateway Pinger keys
- Bigd keys
- Other keys
Configuration Files
