Manual :
BIG-IP Device Service Clustering: Administration
Applies To:
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BIG-IP AAM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP APM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP Link Controller
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP Analytics
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.0
BIG-IP LTM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP AFM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP PEM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP DNS
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
BIG-IP ASM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
Original Publication Date: 12/19/2017
- Introducing BIG-IP Device Service Clustering
- Working with DSC Devices
- Managing Device Trust
- Working with Device Groups
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Managing Configuration Synchronization
- About configuration synchronization
- Specifying an IP address for config sync
- Viewing config sync status for the local device
- Viewing config sync status for all device groups and members
- Manually synchronizing the BIG-IP configuration
- About automatic vs. manual sync
- About full vs. incremental sync
- Troubleshooting the config sync process
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Managing Failover
- Introduction to failover
- Specifying IP addresses for failover communication
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About traffic groups
- About pre-configured traffic groups
- Failover objects and traffic group association
- Before you configure a traffic group
- Creating a traffic group
- Adding members to a traffic group
- Viewing a list of traffic groups for a device
- Viewing the members of a traffic group
- Traffic group properties
- Active and standby states
- Managing failover using HA groups
- About next-active device selection
- 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
- 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
- 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 floating self IP addresses
- Syncing the BIG-IP configuration to the device group
- Forcing a traffic group to a standby state
- Implementation result
- Useful troubleshooting tools
- Legal Notices
