Manual :
BIG-IP Device Service Clustering: Administration
Applies To:
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BIG-IP AAM
- 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP APM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP Analytics
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP Link Controller
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP LTM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP AFM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP PEM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP DNS
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
BIG-IP ASM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1
Original Publication Date: 08/23/2016
- Introducing BIG-IP Device Service Clustering
- Working with DSC Devices
- Managing Device Trust
- Working with Device Groups
- Managing Configuration Synchronization
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Managing Failover
- Introduction to failover
- About traffic groups
- Active and standby states
- About active-standby vs. active-active configurations
- Description of current and next-active devices
- About the next-active device
- About MAC masquerade addresses
- Managing Connection Mirroring
- Working with Folders
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Creating an Active-Standby Configuration Using the Setup Utility
- Overview: Creating a basic active-standby configuration
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Task summary
- Licensing and provisioning the BIG-IP system
- Configuring a device certificate
- Configuring the management port and administrative user accounts
- Enabling ConfigSync and high availability
- Configuring the internal network
- Configuring the external network
- Configuring the network for high availability
- Configuring a ConfigSync address
- Configuring failover and mirroring addresses
- Discovering a peer device
- Implementation result
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Creating an Active-Active Configuration Using the Setup Utility
- Overview: Creating a basic active-active configuration
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Task summary
- Licensing and provisioning the BIG-IP system
- Configuring a device certificate
- Configuring the management port and administrative user accounts
- Enabling ConfigSync and high availability
- Configuring the internal network
- Configuring the external network
- Configuring the network for high availability
- Configuring a ConfigSync address
- Configuring failover and mirroring addresses
- Establishing device trust
- Creating a Sync-Failover device group
- Creating an iApp application for the local device
- Creating a traffic group for a remote device
- Creating an iApp application for a remote device
- Forcing a traffic group to a standby state
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Implementation Results
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Creating an Active-Standby Configuration using the Configuration Utility
- Overview: Creating an active-standby DSC configuration
- DSC prerequisite worksheet
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Task summary
- Specifying an IP address for config sync
- Specifying an IP address for connection mirroring
- Specifying the HA capacity of a device
- Establishing device trust
- Creating a Sync-Failover device group
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Specifying IP addresses for failover communication
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Implementation result
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Creating an Active-Active Configuration using the Configuration Utility
- Overview: Creating an active-active DSC configuration
- DSC prerequisite worksheet
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Task summary
- Specifying an IP address for config sync
- Specifying an IP address for connection mirroring
- Specifying the HA capacity of a device
- Establishing device trust
- Creating a Sync-Failover device group
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Specifying IP addresses for failover communication
- Creating a second traffic group for the device group
- Assigning traffic-group-2 to a floating virtual IP address
- Assigning traffic-group-2 to a floating self IP address
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Forcing a traffic group to a standby state
- Implementation result
- Configuring Load-aware Failover
- Summary of tmsh Troubleshooting Tools
- Legal Notices
