F5 BIG IP Basic setup guide

Hi Superd,

Try this posting

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/just-recieved-big-ip-1600-cant-find-where-to-start

I hope this helps

I also have this list if its useful - would love some feedback;

---Design---

Device

• Confirm support is in place
• Networking;
• > Management NIC
• > TMM Interfaces
• > VLAN design and general numbering
• > Tagging
• > Trunking etc.
• TMOS Software selection
• Hostname
• Management service details (DNS, NTP etc.)
• Authentication methods, remote server details
• Configuration backup schedule and method
• Failover and mirroring methods and interfaces
• Security policies
• IP Addressing
• Routing requirements for management and TMM interfaces

Services/Applications

• Other global settings
• NATting *Service Implementations
• > SSL Certificate requirements and parameters
• > SSL Profile security requirements and parameters
• > Compression requirements and parameters
• > Caching requirements and parameters

--Configuration--

Device

• Ensure relevant switch network interfaces are configured in the physical or virtual network environment
• Management network interface IP address and route via LCD or serial/console
• Licensing
• Provisioning
• Management default account passwords, timezone, Hostname etc.
• Disk partitions, TMOS upgrades and hotfix installations
• Administrative Partitions
• Local user accounts, remote authentication and user roles
• local host file
• DNS, NTP, SNMP, SMTP, sFlow, Logging, log rotation etc.
• Management tasks such as configuration backups and management routes, service failure actions
• Security (password policy, banners, timeouts, source address persistence)
• Physical Interfaces and Trunks (including MTU considerations if using IPsec or VXLAN)
• VLANs, VLAN Tagging, STP (not on the 2000s, 2200s, 4000s, or 4200v platforms) , LLDP
• Route Domains
• Self IPs, ARP and NDP settings
• LTM Routing
• Failover and Configsync etc.
• Global settings such as PMTUD, Auto Last Hop and L2 cache aging time

Services/Applications

• Nodes
• Health Monitors
• Pools
• S/NATs
• SSL Certificate installation
• Profiles;
• > Persistence
• > Protocol
• > SSL
• > HTTP
• > HTTP Compression
• > Web Acceleration
• iRules, Data Groups, iFiles
• Virtual Servers

thanks a million for both guys... will be a great help :)