1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. Click the Add Device button.
3. In the IP Address field, type the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the device.
4. In the Port field, type the management port for this BIG-IP device.
   The port number must be between 4 and 65535. In many cases, it's the default port 443.
   Note: Chrome and Safari browsers don't allow access to web applications running on port 65535. So if you use port 65535 as the management port, you won't be able to access the BIG-IP device's interface from BIG-IQ when using Chrome or Safari. You can still discover and manage BIG-IP devices that are using port 65535.
5. In the User Name field, type admin and provide the password for the admin user for the device.
6. If this device is part of a DSC pair, for the Cluster Display Name setting, specify how to handle it:
   • For an existing DSC pair, select Use Existing from the list, and then select the name of your DSC group from the next list.
   • To create a new DSC pair, select Create New from the list, and type a name in the field.
   For BIG-IQ to properly associate the two devices in the same DSC group, the Cluster Display Name must be the same for both members in a group.
   There can be only two members in a DSC group.
7. If this device is configured in a DSC pair, for the Deployment Settings, specify how to handle it:
   • Initiate BIG-IP DSC sync when deploying configuration changes (Recommended): Select this option if this device is part of a DSC pair and you want this device to automatically synchronize configuration changes with the other member in the DSC group.
   • Ignore BIG-IP DSC sync when deploying configuration changes: Select this option if you want to manually synchronize configurations changes between the two members in the DSC group.
8. Click the Add button at the bottom of the screen.
   The BIG-IQ system opens communication to the BIG-IP device, and checks the BIG-IP device framework.

   Note: The BIG-IQ system can properly manage a BIG-IP device only if the BIG-IP device is running a compatible version of the REST framework.
9. If a framework upgrade is required, in the popup window, in the Root User Name and Root Password fields, type the root user name and password for the BIG-IP device, and click Continue.
10. If, in addition to basic management tasks (like software upgrades, license management, and UCS backups), you also want to centrally manage this device's configurations for licensed services, select the check box next to each service you want to discover, and then click Continue.
    You can also select these service configurations after you add the BIG-IP device to the inventory.
11. Click the Add button at the bottom of the screen.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. Click the name of the device you want to view.
   The device Properties screen opens.

To more easily manage a large number of BIG-IP^® devices, you can organize them into groups. The types of groups you can use are:

• Static groups
• Dynamic groups

A static group contains specific devices that you add to it, and those devices stay in that group until you remove them. For example you might want to create a static group named, Seattle, and add all of the devices located in Seattle to it.

In contrast, a dynamic group is basically a saved query on a group. For example, if you created a static group that contained all of your managed devices located in Seattle and you wanted to view only those devices running a specific application, you could create a dynamic group with that filter. If one of the devices stops running the specified application, the device no longer appears in that dynamic group.

If you delete a managed BIG-IP device from the parent group, you see that change when you view the dynamic group.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. To search for a specific object, in the Filter field at the top right of the screen, type all or part of an object's name and click the filter icon.
   BIG-IQ refreshes the screen to show only those devices that contain the object you filtered on.
3. To remove the filter, click the X icon next to it.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. On the left, click BIG-IP DEVICES.
3. Click the Export Inventory button.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. On the left, click PASSWORD MANAGEMENT > Change Device Passwords .
3. Near the top of the screen, click the Create button.
4. In the Name and Descriptions fields, type a name and optional description to help you identify this task.
5. From the Available list, select devices and move them to the Selected list.
   Important: The passwords for the BIG-IP devices you select must all be identical.
6. Select an option for the Change Password setting.
7. Provide the old and new passwords, as required.
    
8. Click the Run button at the bottom of the screen.
   BIG-IQ will apply the new password to all of the selected BIG-IP devices. You can view the status of this task from the Change Device Passwords screen.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.
2. Select the check box next to the device you want to rediscover and reimport services for.
3. Click the More button and select Re-discover and Re-import.
4. In the Name and Description fields, type a name and an optional description to identify this task.
5. For the Conflict Resolution Policy setting, select Use BIG-IP to override the configuration settings stored on BIG-IQ with the settings from the BIG-IP device.
   Important: When you're importing more than one device at the same time keep in mind that they're re-imported in the order listed, from top to bottom. You can use the arrow keys to change the processing order. When you select Use BIG-IP to resolve conflicts, the BIG-IP device used to resolve those conflicts should appear last in the re-import list. If two or more BIG-IP devices contain the same object with different values, only the value in the last imported BIG-IP is used to resolve the conflict for all the BIG-IP devices.
6. If you want to save a snapshot of the BIG-IP device's configuration before importing their services, select the Create a snapshot of the current configuration before importing check box.
7. Click the Create button at the bottom of the screen.