The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules.
F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides a unified point of visibility and control for the entire F5 portfolio, ensuring administrators remain aware on the pulse of F5 devices, modules, and licenses and enabling them to deliver optimal application availability, performance, and security.
BIG-IQ manages policies,licenses, SSL certificates, BIG-IP images, and configurations for F5 appliances and for the following BIG-IP moduals across hardware and virtual editions:
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F5 BIG-IQ is a central management system for the BIG-IP.
The backup, monitoring and logging are the best features.
F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support.
The GUI is fine, at least from an engineer's perspective.
The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules.
The reporting feature is quite good.
The most valuable features are load balancing and WAF.
Features like AFM, the gateway, and Global DNS are the coolest features that save work for us.
We use this solution on a daily basis, and it is very stable.
Scalability: To move from larger boxes to smaller boxes, along with virtualization. So, we are not locked into a particular size.