BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.2.0

BIG-IQ Centralized Management version 5.2.0 introduces the following new features:

New User Interface

You will have a new user experience when managing your devices through BIG-IQ. The new experience more closely aligns with monitoring, configuration, deployment tasks in your network.

Statistics and Insight into your BIG-IP environment

You can now gain insight into your BIG-IP environment when enabling the statistics collection in BIG-IQ. Charts and data cover the following:

• BIG-IP Device Health
• BIG-IP Traffic
• Virtual Server
• Pool and Pool Members
• iRules
• DNS

For each area listed above, you'll find numerous charts and data, such as CPU, memory, swap, disk, interface traffic, throughput, connection, HTTP, and a plethora of DNS statistics. Controls allow you to view data live or view historical data. You can create comparison charts comparing collected metrics across devices, virtual servers, and so on.

The statistics requires deployment of at least on BIG-IQ console node and at least one BIG-IP Data Collection Device (DCD). F5 recommends deploying the BIG-IQ console node in a virtual machine with a minimum of 4 CPUs and 16GB of memory allocated and the BIG-IQ DCD nodes in a virtual machine with 8 CPUs and 32GB of memory.

SSL Certificate Management

Enhanced certificate management allows you to track and alert on expiration of SSL certificates and upload keys and certificates to managed devices in your network.

Global Search

You can use the new global search feature to perform a deep search across all managed devices for objects, users, tasks, profiles, and more. From the search window, you can then filter your results, see related resources, or find user activities. You can even create advanced queries and save your favorite searches.

APM and ASM Centralized Policy Management

For Access Policy Manager and Application Security Manager deployments, you can now use BIG-IQ to centrally manage your security policies. You can compare, edit, verify, stage, and audit policies, as well as deploying policies to multiple devices.

Partial Deployment

You can evaluate and deploy partial configurations to all managed devices (except APM).

Alert Logging

A new alert dashboard provides you a catalog of alerts raised by the BIG-IQ system.

API Documentation

Select API documentation for critical workflows can help you create your own automated solutions.

DoS configuration management

You can discover, import, modify and then deploy back the DoS Device configuration to each managed BIG-IP device for which you have provisioned Advanced Firewall Management.

Logging profile configuration management

You can deploy, edit, and create logging profiles on virtual servers on managed devices.

Additional resources

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• The F5 Networks Technical Support web site: https://f5.com/support
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