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F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

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What is F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management?

F5's BIG-IQ provides centralized management of app services and security policies.

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F5's BIG-IQ provides centralized management of app services and security policies.

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What is F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management?

F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides an application-centric and unified point of visibility and control for F5 BIG-IP products and features. BIG-IQ Centralized Management is built to ease the burden of managing the BIG-IP system and offers value to NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps users with automated workflows, intelligent device management, role- and user-specific GUIs and dashboards, and tight third-party integrations. In short, BIG-IQ Centralized Management enables you to gain insight into and keep tight control of every BIG-IP application service and device in on-premises, public, and private cloud environments.

BIG-IQ supports F5 BIG-IP end-to-end, including:
  • BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs)
  • BIG-IP Per-App VEs
  • BIG-IP Hardware platforms
  • BIG-IP deployed in Azure, AWS, GCP

BIG-IQ manages policies, licenses, SSL certificates, images, and configurations for F5 appliances and for the following F5 modules:
  • BIG-IP Local Traffic Managerâ„¢ (LTM)
  • F5 Advanced Web Application Firewallâ„¢ (WAF)
  • BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Managerâ„¢ (AFM)
  • F5 SSL Orchestrator®
  • BIG-IP Access Policy Manager® (APM)
  • BIG-IP DNS

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management Features

Workload Automation Features

  • Supported: Central monitoring
  • Supported: Logging
  • Supported: Analysis and visualization
  • Supported: Application integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: Holistically manage up to 1500 BIG-IP devices and thousands of licenses
  • Supported: Create new BIG-IP Virtual Editions directly from BIG-IQ Centralized Management
  • Supported: Automate and simplify certificate and key management with native Venafi and Let's Encrypt integrations
  • Supported: Manage permissions and access to dashboards, workflows, and templates through role based access control (RBAC)
  • Supported: Configure and centrally manage encrypted traffic policies with the F5 SSL Orchestrator dashboard
  • Supported: Integrate with popular automation platforms and CI/CD pipeline tools
  • Supported: Use declaritive REST APIs to manage, provision, and deploy BIG-IP services
  • Supported: Gain visibility into HTTP and TCP analytics profiles from application-centric interactive dashboards

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management Video

Fostering Security through Visibility with F5 BIG-IQ and SSL Orchestrator

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management to push daily changes such as VIP, Pool, nodes, monitors... creation, delete, updates. BigIQ helped me to see all my BigIPs in one place and it helped me a lot in software upgrades. With BigIQ I also took advantage of pushing scripts to several devices at same time, reducing the amount of time I use to take =, doing them on every single BIG-IP.
  • Software upgrades
  • Pushing scripts
  • Basic BIG-IP management
  • Export simple reports such as device inventory, VIPs inventory
  • Performance
  • Ability to rename objects
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
Workload Automation (4)
47.5%
4.8
Central monitoring
30%
3.0
Logging
60%
6.0
Analysis and visualization
50%
5.0
Application integration
50%
5.0
  • In 2021 thanks to Big-IQ we drastically reduced the time we spend on software upgrades.
  • BigIQ helped us to have visibility of our BIG-IP environment in one place.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use the 5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management to push TMOS Software to our Big-Ips, reboot the Big-ips, license our various Big-IPS WITH ELA.
  • Easy to push software to bigips for upgrade.
  • Allows centralized license management
  • Allows centralized device management
  • I'd like to see the big-ip be able to create and update certs.
  • Big-iq doesn't seem to upgrade smoothly
  • Ha fail over has never been smooth to move back to the Active after it fails over the 1st time.
5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management doesn't seem to work smoothly or provide a lot of functionality
Workload Automation (4)
N/A
N/A
Central monitoring
N/A
N/A
Logging
N/A
N/A
Analysis and visualization
N/A
N/A
Application integration
N/A
N/A
  • My experience is whenever upgrading this cluster it is very time consuming due to running into a bug or two to troubleshoot
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I really hope to give a 10/10 to the new Central Manager. F5 BIG-IQ was a let down, even compared to Enterprise Manager. Running scripts from bigiq is pretty neat and it helped us cutting down the time to apply minimum security baselines to all ADCs.
  • Backups
  • Running scripts
  • Licensing
  • Upgrades
  • Handling objects with the same name but with different settings
  • Certificate management
  • Scheduling scripts
  • Pre and post tmos upgrade activities
Just to mention one thing, Not a real cluster.
Workload Automation (4)
35%
3.5
Central monitoring
70%
7.0
Logging
30%
3.0
Analysis and visualization
30%
3.0
Application integration
10%
1.0
  • Crucial for ela management
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