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F5 BIG-IQ provides a central point of control for BIG-IP physical and virtual appliances and for the solutions that run on them. It simplifies management, helps ensure compliance, and gives you the tools you need to deliver your applications securely and effectively.
BIG-IQ reduces the administrative overhead of managing your BIG-IP estate, whether BIG-IP services are deployed on F5 systems (including F5 rSeries and F5 VELOS) or as Virtual Editions. It includes deep visibility and intuitive management workflows for BIG-IP policies, licenses, SSL certificates, images, and device configurations. It also offers holistic visibility and control of BIG-IP application delivery and security services.
BIG-IQ provides extensive analytics, fine-grained Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC), automation workflows, F5-supported service templates, REST API endpoints, and integrations with third-party tools like analytics, CI/CD, and automation and orchestration tools to give you an end-to-end BIG-IP management solution.
BIG-IQ supports the following F5 modules:
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), BIG-IP Advanced WAF (WAF), BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator, BBIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, F5 Secure Web Gateway Services, BIG-IP DNS
Highlights
- Get deep BIG-IP analytics, alerting, application templating, consistent policy authoring, license management, and fine-grained Role-Based Access Controls
- Unify management workflows for your entire BIG-IP estate BIG-IQ can manage up to 1500 devices (100 for APM), 150K objects, and 1000's of firewall contexts in a single deployment.
- Secure apps holistically with: L7 security dashboards, SSL Orchestrator dashboards, security policy analyzer, proactive policy optimization suggestions, WAF centralized policy builder, full management of remote access VPNs, and centralized APM policy authoring via visual policy editor or API endpoint.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Before deploy: Create a key pair and VPC (if none exists).
After deploy: SSH to the instance and run these tmsh commands to set the admin password: modify auth user admin password <your_password> save sys config
Wait approximately 6 minutes before logging in.
Log into the Config utility web page:
The EC2 Manager virtual machine guest environment for the BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE), at minimum, must include 2 virtual network adapter cards (NICs). Use https with port 443 to access the BIG-IQ.
Ensure your security groups allow access to the required port.
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