Wednesday, 30 October 2013

F5 BIG-IP LTM Configuring Pools and Virtual Servers


Configuring Pools :
In order to configure a new pool select the local traffic section of navigation panel, select pools and click create(either in the fly out menu or on the pool configure screen)

Type a name for the pool, adding a monitor is optional and then select the load balancing method and member definitions.

Click finished.

Configuring virtual servers:
To configure a new virtual server, select virtual servers and then click create (either in the flyout menu or on the virtual servers configuration screen)

Next, type a name for the virtual server as well as its IP address and port and select profiles if desired. Note that we will examine profiles in a future module.

Finally, scroll down the resources section and enter your chosen pool in the default pool setting.

Click finished

Notice the plus (+) sign option next to the default pool. This allows the BIG-IP administrator to configure a new pool in the midst of configuring a virtual server.

  Network Map
Another important feature in the web configuration utility is the network map. Network map allows the administrator to view an entire configuration at once along with the status of all virtual servers and their components both i-rules and pools.

This can be extremely useful when you need a quick overview of the current status of yours BIG-IP configuration.

Statistics 
There will also be times when you want to determine the amount of traffic BIG-IP is processing and how its being distributed.

To accomplish this you can view BIG-IP statistics information with in the web configuration utility.

There are two ways to view statistics. Either select the overview tab then type of resource or from the statistics tab within the particular resource.
For example you might choose pools or virtual servers and then click the statistics tab from that item.

Logs:
Viewing loging information can also be helpful BIG-IP log files show the status of pool member’s but only if you have assigned monitor to the pools. You can also use SNMP traps and/or a centralized syslog server for automatic notification of certain log events. 





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