Initial knowledge of F5 load balancing equipment

At present, the global application of a wide range of load balancing equipment for the United States F5. F5 in China in the end of 2000, in the domestic industry, F5 load balancing products have become the mainstream load balancing technology synonymous. Below we do a basic introduction to the F5 Load balancer device to make it easy for everyone to know and use it.
First, look at the device Identification and panel:

Panel structure of the F5 device:
interface-multiple M/I Adaptive Network interface
Gigabit Fiber interface-multiple 1000M multimode fiber interface
Serial console port-A serial command-line management port
Failover port-A serial port redundancy status judgment ports
MGMT interface-a 10/10/1000m management port

F5 Status Light Status Description:

The F5 can determine its working status by the status indicator when it is in normal operation:
*/M Port connection Status light, green for the connection is normal, the number represents the connection rate
Panel right system Status light
System is normally green and working properly
Status normally the active device is green, and the backup device is orange
Activity flashes when there is data flow through, timed flash without data traffic
Alarm for health Check alarm, when the system found that the service node in the "unhealthy" state of the prompt alarm

Second, the equipment configuration and use:
F5 devices can be configured via the command line and Web interface, which is generally recommended through the GUI's web interface.

Web-based configuration preparation
1, install the Windows operating system of the PC computer One
2, IE 6 or higher version
3, one anti-line, connected to the PC and BIGIP Mgmt Management port

When no configuration is made to the F5, it is possible to see the default management IP of the machine via the LCD screen
Generally 192.168.1.245. or 192.168.245.245.
We configure the IP address of the client host as the same segment address of the management address, because F5 uses SSL
Encrypted HTTP, so we type in the address bar of IE: https://192.168.1.245
To access it.

After enter, the security warning message appears, default is no, in order to configure F5 we choose Yes.

Then you are prompted for a web-based configuration of the user name and password, the default username is Admin password admin

Click OK to go to the F5 Web page, the menu on the left has a total of four columns, respectively, to configure different information:

General Property settings for F5
Enter System---Platform

Note: The host name is used to identify the big-IP system itself. The hostname must conform to the DNS domain name standard. The host part must start with a letter and be at least 2 characters. Also note that the host name of the F5 dual-machine system must be different, otherwise the configuration synchronization will produce an error, which may lead to corruption license

Note: Root for the command line login account, admin for the Web login management account.
The root password allows the user to access the big-IP system from the command line. It is recommended that the root password be longer than 6 bits, but not more than 32 bytes. Password is sensitive to case, it is recommended that the password contain uppercase/lowercase letters and numbers. If the big-IP system is a redundant system, the root password must be consistent between the two primary and standby computers.

Well, let's start with this and have a chance to continue.

The learning materials are referenced in:

http://xjsunjie.blog.51cto.com/999372/666672