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    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AF5's BIG-IQ provides centralized management of app services and security policies.N/A
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    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    BIG-IQ is inferior to most other F5 platforms that I've used extensively.
    Incentivized
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    I think BIG-IQ is more of an "old school" approach to centralized management.
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    Chose F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    It doesn't stack up at all. The orchestrator is much better at handling all of the things we need
    Incentivized
    Chose F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Of all the centralized Management platforms I have ever used, BIG-IQ is the worst. It constantly breaks and requires fixing in some way or another.
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    Chose F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    appviewx crashed our systems
    Incentivized
    Chose F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    B/c We liked the other products even less
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    33%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    40%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    20%
    Happy with the feature set
    3 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    55%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    User Ratings
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.2
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    4.3
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management works perfectly in Software upgrades and simple daily changes. We are successfully using it to create and or delete objects. It doesn`t works well when we need reports. I usually have to create custom scripts to get a list of objects, for example. Performance is also something that could be improved in Big-IQ
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    Pros
    F5
    • Common system level changes like cipher suite customization, ssh protocol settings etc can be pushed to all F5 gear through one click of a button
    • Enterprise standard templates for profiles/protocols etc., can be efficiently managed across F5 gear through a single interface
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    Cons
    F5
    • There a lack of the going forward to next
    • The second site product does not do what we need and we are forced to write our own scripts
    • Many of the alerting that was in enterprise management is no longer in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    There is some room for improvement around RBAC. The access to certain features, options and menus is not straightforward and not that granular.
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    Usability
    F5
    I feel pinning policies are killing you guys when it comes to being able to add multiple LTMs that have different naming conventions.
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    Support Rating
    F5
    The support is a bit complex and not straightforward. It seems there aren't many engineers supporting this platform. There are many components in the solution that makes it complex for troubleshooting. Documentation needs to be more in depth, and I have opened a few cases around cluster sync issues and objects stalled. In the end I was able to find and fix the problem.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    Of all the centralized Management platforms I have ever used, BIG-IQ is the worst. It constantly breaks and requires fixing in some way or another.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Cut costs by requiring less manual hours to manage F5 OS installations
    • Great monitoring and alerting tool for general F5 gear health
    • Provides critical information for capacity planning of the F5 resources
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