F5 Workshop Series - NWA Edition - July 2019

Your F5 account team is pleased to announce that we are hosting APM and GTM Workshop Training in the Northwest Arkansas area on Thursday, July 18^th. The Workshop is free of charge and a great way to supplement your understanding of your F5 investment.  Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone that may benefit from this training. 

 
This workshop is limited to 15 seats.  Please confirm at your earliest to assure seating for you or your staff. These seats usually fill up very fast.
 

F5 APM and GTM Workshop details
 
Instructor:  Garland Moore
 
When:  July 18^th 9:00am – 5:00pm CST
 
Agenda:  Access Policy Manager (APM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS)
 
Where:   TBD
 
Prerequisites:  Laptop and it is required and that the student review the free online courses located at F5 University. 
 
Lunch provided: – Please let me know of any special dietary needs that you might have. 
 

Introduction to Universal Access - APM

This class will cover APM concepts and will guide students through configuration steps for the following common use cases:

• Remote access VPN services
• Web portals (Webtops) for publishing internal applications
• Using different authentication protocols
• Single-Sign-On (SSO) functionality

Data Center Availability Services Using BIGIP-DNS

• Students will configure F5 DNS servers to support GSLB (Global Services Load Balancing) on a single device in site1.
• Join an additional F5 DNS server in site2 to the GSLB cluster.
• An Internal group of DNS servers is authoritative for the zone example.com and contains a static A record for “www.example.com”, which resolves to 203.0.113.9.
• Students will add glue records and delegate gslb.example.com to the F5 GSLB DNS servers.
• Convert the A record “www.example.com” to be a CNAME record pointing to www.gslb.example.com.
• Students will create an additional GSLB service using iControl REST
• Modify the DNS load balancing method from active/active to active/standby

By the end of the lab students will have configured F5 GSLB DNS servers to alternately resolve www.example.com to 203.0.113.9 and 198.51.100.41. At the end of the lab, students will then have an opportunity to simulate a real-life failure scenario and observe how BIG-IP DNS responds to mitigate the service outage.

For more information on the content please contact David Homoney at d.homoney@f5.com.
 
 
 
* The local F5 training Workshops are not meant to be a substitute for formal/certified classroom or WBT training offered by F5 University or our certified training partners.  This workshop is meant to supplement the formal training.