Part One: High Availability and Traffic Processing 1
Getting Started with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 1
Lab 1: Configuring High Availability
Estimated time for completion: 20 minutes
Lab Objectives
• Use the Config Sync/HA Utility to configure High Availability (HA) settings, establish device
trust, and create an active-standby device group
• Perform an initial ConfigSync operation to synchronize configuration data between the devices in
a device group
Lab Requirements
You must have successfully completed the instructions entitled Starting Up the Lab Environment in the
Getting Started Lab Introduction document.
Lab Introduction
In the lab environment, there are two BIG-IP systems. We will refer to bigip1.f5trn.com as “BIG-IP 1”
and bigip2.f5trn.com as “BIG-IP 2”. Pay particular attention to the instructions. Some tasks will be
performed on BIG-IP 1 and others on BIG-IP 2, which can be summarized as:
BIG-IP 2
1. Run Config Sync/HA Utility until you see the “Setup Utility Complete” confirmation
message.
BIG-IP 1
2. Run Config Sync/HA Utility until you see the “Setup Utility Complete” confirmation
message.
3. Establish device trust and configure a device group.
4. Perform initial sync called “ConfigSync”
Access the BIG-IP System
• Click the Firefox web browser icon in the toolbar to access your BIG-IP system. (The icon
automatically opens a browser session to the BIG-IP system at https://192.168.1.31.)
• Log in to your BIG-IP system as the admin user and with password f5trn1.
This lab corresponds with the activities presented in Getting Started with
LTM: Part 1 – Module 1 High Availability, Lesson Two: Setting Up an