Overview
F5 BIG-IQ provides a central point of control for F5 physical and virtual devices 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 manages policies, licenses, SSL certificates, images, and configurations for F5 devices. It includes extensive analytics, fine grained Roles-Based Access Control and the ability to scale up or scale down F5 devices as business needs change (AWS and VMware only). It supports the following F5 modules:
- BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM)
- BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
- F5 Secure Web Gateway Services
- BIG-IP DNS
- F5 WebSafe and F5 MobileSafe (monitoring and updates)
BIG-IQ manages F5 devices running in AWS as well as on-prem BIG-IP, VE, VIPRION, and the BIG-IP iSeries hardware platforms as well as the new BIG-IP Per-App VE solution. BIG-IQ is ideal for organizations that require central management and automation of F5 devices and modules, license management of BIG-IP VEs, or central reporting and alerting on application availability, performance, and security.
Highlights
- Now includes analytics, auto-scaling, application templating and fine-grained Role-Based Access Control
- Scales up to 600 devices (100 for APM), 150K objects and 1000's of firewall contexts
- Enhanced security management including: ASM centralized policy builder, full management of remote access VPNs and enabling the creation of APM policies direct on BIG-IQ using a visual policy editor.
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Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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This is a BYOL AMI, so please refer to the terms of your F5 license agreement
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Delivery details
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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Usage instructions
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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An annual support contract may be purchased separately from F5 Technical Support Services.
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