Manual :
BIG-IP Link Controller Reference Guide, version 4.3
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Link Controller
- 4.3 PTF-02, 4.3 PTF-01, 4.3.0
Original Publication Date: 09/27/2007
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting started
Using the Administrator Kit
Learning more about the BIG-IP product family
Additional Base Network Configuration
Overview of the base network configuration
Interfaces
- Interface naming conventions
- Displaying status and settings for interfaces
- Media type and duplex mode
VLANs
- Default VLAN configuration
- Creating, renaming, and deleting VLANs
- Configuring packet access to VLANs
- Managing the Layer 2 forwarding table
- Creating VLAN groups
- Setting up security for VLANs
- Setting fail-safe timeouts for VLANs
- Setting the MAC masquerade address
Self IP addresses
Trunks
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Creating and deleting STP domains
- Setting time intervals for an STP domain
- Adding or deleting interfaces in an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling an STP domain
- Disabling and re-enabling interfaces in an STP domain
- Restarting stpd
Port mirroring
Configuring the High-Level Network
Overview of the high-level network
- Working with pools
- Pool Name
- Member specification
- Load balancing method
- Persistence
- HTTP redirection
- HTTP header insertion
- Quality of Service (QoS) level
- Type of Service (ToS) level
- Disabling SNAT and NAT connections
- Forwarding pools
- Standard virtual servers
- Wildcard virtual servers
- Virtual server options
- Using other Link Controller features with virtual servers
- SNATs
- NATs
- IP forwarding
- Selecting the monitor template
- Configuring a monitor
- Monitor attributes
- Associating the monitor with a node or nodes
Address translation: SNATs, NATs, and IP forwarding
The big3d Agent
Working with the big3d agent
- Collecting path data and server performance metrics
- Understanding factories run by big3d agents
- Tracking LDNS probe states with the big3d agent
Overview of communications protocols
- Communications for remote administration of the Link Controller
- Communications for resolving DNS requests
- Communications for collecting path data
Internet Link Evaluator
Overview of the Internet Link Evaluator
- Working with the Average Round Trip Time table
- Working with the Average Completion Rate table
- Working with the Average Router Hops table
Interpreting the Internet Link Evaluator data
Inbound Load Balancing
Working with load balancing modes for inbound traffic
Understanding inbound load balancing on the Link Controller
Configuring inbound load balancing
- Understanding wide IPs
- Understanding wide IP pools
- Defining a wide IP
- Using wildcard characters in wide IP names
- Using the LDNS round robin wide IP attribute
Setting up load balancing for services that require multiple ports
Monitoring and Administration
Monitoring and administration utilities
Using the bigpipe utility as a monitoring tool
- Monitoring the Link Controller
- Monitoring virtual servers, virtual addresses and services
- Monitoring nodes and node addresses
- Monitoring NATs
- Monitoring SNATs
- Viewing the status of the interface cards
Using the Configuration utility for administration and monitoring
Working with the Syslog utility
Powering down the Link Controller
Removing and returning items to service
- Removing the Link Controller from service
- Removing individual virtual servers, virtual addresses, and ports from service
- Removing individual nodes and node addresses from service
- Viewing the currently defined virtual servers and nodes
Viewing system statistics and log files
Printing the connection table
Changing passwords
Working with the BIG/stat utility
Additional Setup Options
Overview of additional setup options
Defining additional host names
Using the MindTerm SSH Console
Downloading the SSH client to your administrative workstation
- Downloading the SSH client from the web server
- Setting up the SSH client on a Windows 95 or Windows NT workstation
- Setting up the SSH client on a UNIX workstation
Addressing general networking issues
Using a serial terminal with the Link Controller
- Configuring a serial terminal in addition to the console
- Configuring a serial terminal as the console
- Forcing a serial terminal to be the console
Configuring RADIUS or LDAP authentication
- Configuring RADIUS login support
- Configuring LDAP login support
- Allowing multiple authentication styles
- Requiring different authentication styles for different applications
Configuring a Redundant System
Overview of a redundant system
Synchronizing configurations between units
Configuring fail-safe settings
Mirroring connection information
Using gateway fail-safe
Using network-based fail-over
Setting a specific Link Controller to be the preferred active unit
Configuring SNMP
Introducing SNMP on the Link Controller
Downloading the MIBs
Configuring SNMP using the Configuration utility
SNMP configuration files
Configuring snmpd to send responses out of different ports or addresses
bigpipe Command Reference
- Options
- Saving configuration files to an archive
- Installing an archived configuration file
- Synchronizing configuration files
- Displaying all current connections
- Displaying connections for a specific virtual server
- Displaying standby connections
- Options
- Options
- Changing failover state
- Displaying failover status
- Initializing failover state
- Options
- Displaying interface information
- Setting the media type
- Setting the duplex mode
- Resetting statistics
- Enabling or disabling an interface
- Changing driver name mapping
- Options
- Displaying port mirroring
- Creating a port mirror
- Deleting interfaces from a port mirror
- Deleting a port mirror
- Options
- Creating a monitor
- Modifying a monitor
- Creating a monitor instance
- Modifying a monitor instance
- Deleting a monitor
- Deleting a monitor instance
- Displaying monitor templates
- Displaying monitor instances
- Monitor templates
- Options
- Defining a NAT
- Deleting a NAT
- Additional Restrictions
- Options
- Displaying nodes
- Modifying nodes
- Options
- Displaying a pool
- Creating a pool
- Modifying a pool
- Deleting a pool
- Specifying HTTP redirection
- Options
- Displaying ratio settings
- Modifying ratio settings
- Options
- Creating self IP addresses
- Options
- Options
- Defining a SNAT
- Deleting SNAT
- Options
- Options
- Options
- Defining a virtual server using pools and rules
- Defining a virtual server with a wildcard port
- Deleting a virtual server
- Options
- Options
