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superd_88943
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NimbostratusF5 BIG IP Basic setup guide
Guys, a few months back i came across a KB article on here that one of the very generous dev central members put together. It was basically an initial setup guide for F5-BIGIP; IP addressing, VLANS etc etc, to get the appliance ready for production. Im setting up a home LAB using the VE, and would find something like this of great assistance.
Would anyone happen to have a link to this KB?
Thanks...
3 Replies
- The_Bhattman
Hi Superd,
Try this posting
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/just-recieved-big-ip-1600-cant-find-where-to-start
I hope this helps
What_Lies_Bene1Cirrostratus
I also have this list if its useful - would love some feedback;
---Design---
Device
- Confirm support is in place
- Networking;
- > Management NIC
- > TMM Interfaces
- > VLAN design and general numbering
- > Tagging
- > Trunking etc.
- TMOS Software selection
- Hostname
- Management service details (DNS, NTP etc.)
- Authentication methods, remote server details
- Configuration backup schedule and method
- Failover and mirroring methods and interfaces
- Security policies
- IP Addressing
- Routing requirements for management and TMM interfaces
Services/Applications
- Other global settings
- NATting *Service Implementations
- > SSL Certificate requirements and parameters
- > SSL Profile security requirements and parameters
- > Compression requirements and parameters
- > Caching requirements and parameters
--Configuration--
Device
- Ensure relevant switch network interfaces are configured in the physical or virtual network environment
- Management network interface IP address and route via LCD or serial/console
- Licensing
- Provisioning
- Management default account passwords, timezone, Hostname etc.
- Disk partitions, TMOS upgrades and hotfix installations
- Administrative Partitions
- Local user accounts, remote authentication and user roles
- local host file
- DNS, NTP, SNMP, SMTP, sFlow, Logging, log rotation etc.
- Management tasks such as configuration backups and management routes, service failure actions
- Security (password policy, banners, timeouts, source address persistence)
- Physical Interfaces and Trunks (including MTU considerations if using IPsec or VXLAN)
- VLANs, VLAN Tagging, STP (not on the 2000s, 2200s, 4000s, or 4200v platforms) , LLDP
- Route Domains
- Self IPs, ARP and NDP settings
- LTM Routing
- Failover and Configsync etc.
- Global settings such as PMTUD, Auto Last Hop and L2 cache aging time
Services/Applications
- Nodes
- Health Monitors
- Pools
- S/NATs
- SSL Certificate installation
- Profiles;
- > Persistence
- > Protocol
- > SSL
- > HTTP
- > HTTP Compression
- > Web Acceleration
- iRules, Data Groups, iFiles
- Virtual Servers
superd_88943thanks a million for both guys... will be a great help :)
