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Challenge:

Businesses using BIG-IP must

keep confgurations current and

synchronized.

Solution:

FireMon monitors BIG-IP

appliances, providing business

continuity and change

management solutions that are

cost eective, automated and

sustainable.

Benefts:

Reduce downtime and

unplanned outages caused by

confguration changes

Increase awareness o

confguration changes

with automated change

notifcations

Reduce complexity o

confguring BIG-IP with

increased visibility to device

confgurations

Prevent issues during

device ailover with cluster

synchronization alerting

Increase consistency o

application delivery by

keeping critical profles

confgured identically across

the enterprise

The FireMon solution provides real-time operations management or security and network

devices throughout the enterprise. FireMon directly addresses two elements o BIG-IP

managementchange control and business continuity.

F5 BIG-IP devices are an integral network component in the enterprise. Sitting in line

between users and critical resources such as web servers and mail servers, BIG-IP devices

ensure the most complex systems are secure and available. As such, thorough, correct

management o BIG-IP devices becomes crucial.

Without comprehensive management o BIG-IP devices, small, unknown changes can take

down a network or overload protected nodes. Small inconsistencies in object defnitions can

compromise regulatory compliance. And inconsistent High Availability (HA) confgurations

may result in network ailurethe exact case that HA was meant to solve.

FireMon BIG-IP Management Solutions

CHANGE CONTROL

FireMon oers real-time, auditable change control. You are notifed anytime a change

happens, making it possible to fx an issue beore it becomes an emergency. Details o the

change are immediately available in amiliar object displays consistent with the F5 interace.

And or a comprehensive view o confguration changes, FireMons change reports deliver

graduated detail o changes that occurred over the past day, week, or other custom

timerame. From management-level summaries to in-depth engineering details, FireMon

provides change inormation about your LTM and GTM devices.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Its not easy to ensure that complex device confgurations are correct. Quick visual

inspections will oten miss subtle but critical dierences. Whether its an inconsistency in

object defnitions throughout the enterprise, or an inconsistency between devices in an

HA confguration, FireMon will show you precisely where the discrepancy occurs. You can

veriy that managed objects such as virtual servers, profles and iRules are consistently

implemented. And youll know or certain i the backup and primary devices in an HA

deployment are synchronized.

This opportunity to extend the visibility oered by FireMon

into the F5 application delivery model will signifcantly beneft

anyone needing to ensure consistency and compliance with

their internal governance and overall inormation security

management program.

- Je Sherwood, Principal Security Strategist at H&R Block

INTEGRATION BRIEF

F5 NETWORKS

FireMon enhances BIG-IP management

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