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A company deploys F5 load balancers to manage a large number of secure applications. The company manage certificates. Which F5 provides this functionality?

The correct answer is B. BIG-IQ. F5 BIG-IQ is the centralized management platform for F5 BIG-IP infrastructure, providing unified SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management - including inventory, expiration tracking, and deployment - across a fleet of devices.

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Question

A company deploys F5 load balancers to manage a large number of secure applications. The company manage certificates. Which F5 provides this functionality?

Options

  • AiHealthy
  • BBIG-IQ
  • CGTM
  • DLTM

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    93% (25)
  • D
    4% (1)

Why each option

F5 BIG-IQ is the centralized management platform for F5 BIG-IP infrastructure, providing unified SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management - including inventory, expiration tracking, and deployment - across a fleet of devices.

AiHealthy

iHealthy is not a real F5 product; F5 iHealth is a diagnostics and QoS analysis service for BIG-IP support cases and does not manage certificates.

BBIG-IQCorrect

BIG-IQ Centralized Management includes a dedicated SSL Certificate Management module that aggregates certificate inventory from all managed BIG-IP devices, alerts on upcoming expirations, and enables bulk import and deployment of certificates without logging into each device individually - exactly the functionality needed to manage certificates for a large number of secure applications.

CGTM

GTM (now BIG-IP DNS) handles DNS-based global traffic steering and wide-IP resolution, but it does not provide certificate lifecycle management across multiple devices.

DLTM

LTM (Local Traffic Manager) can perform SSL offloading and manage certificates on a single BIG-IP device, but it does not offer centralized certificate management across an entire F5 deployment.

Concept tested: F5 BIG-IQ centralized SSL certificate lifecycle management

Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-8-3-0/big-iq-centralized-management-for-bigip.html

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#BIG-IQ#certificate management#F5 products#SSL certificates

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