F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management Reviews & Insights

We found that because we are looking at moving to next and there seems to be a move away from F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management the product has a limited lifetime and I feel is not worth putting the time into at this time.

Since it has a very limited lifetime, I would say goto central manager or load a CE to have that as your 1 pain of glass and look for another management solution.

We put F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management in our environment to use its centralized management capabilities, but we don't make much use of it. It is part of our certificate renewal and deployment process, but doesn't add much to our Big-IP administration. Maybe we're using it wrong.

For deploying virtual servers from scratch it works well and gives detailed tracking on the changes made. For small temporary updates, like enabling/disabling pool members, it actually slows down the process.

We backup VELOS, and BIG-IPs, and have LTM objects in silos. We use it to run a second site.

In my opinion, nothing works well and there are frequent gotchas to implementing features.

In my opinion, it has been pretty undependable and is the most difficult product to keep up to date. In my experience, upgrades are a giant pain and never go well. I believe central manager is going to be the product to replace this, but I want to be sure it is nothing like this this product. "Big IQ 3.0" if you will.

Licensing only will be what we end up using it till its end of life.

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management provides a common interface to push quick changes across the F5 gear to mitigate several critical vulnerabilities that gets notified in the F5 quarterly advisory. It also helps to automate OS and patch management saving man hours for our team.

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management is a great interface to manage F5 gear for large enterprises, often simplifying the routine manual workflows which are time consuming.

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.

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

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.

5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management doesn't seem to work smoothly or provide a lot of functionality

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.

Just to mention one thing, Not a real cluster.