Filter
Top Products
Deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the F5 BIG-IP LTM System v9
BIG-IP® Deployment Guide 10
Creating a profile
BIG-IP version 9.0 and later uses profiles. A profile is an object that
contains user-configurable settings, with default values, for controlling the
behavior of a particular type of network traffic, such as HTTP connections.
Using profiles enhances your control over managing network traffic, and
makes traffic-management tasks easier and more efficient.
Although it is possible to use the default profiles, we strongly recommend
you create new profiles based on the default parent profiles. Creating new
profiles allows you to easily modify the profile settings specific to this
deployment, and ensures you do not accidentally overwrite the default
profile.
In this Deployment Guide, we only configure a TCP profile. You can
configure other profiles as applicable to your configuration. For more
information on Profiles, see the Configuration Guide for Local Traffic
Management.
Creating the TCP profile
For this deployment, we configure a new TCP profile. In this profile, we set
the Idle Timeout value to 604800 (one week). If a connection is completely
idle for a period of a week, the BIG-IP LTM system will reset the
connection.
To create a new TCP profile
1. On the Main tab, expand Local Traffic.
2. Click Profiles.
The HTTP Profiles screen opens.
3. On the Menu bar, from the Protocol menu, select TCP.
4. In the upper right portion of the screen, click the Create button.
The New TCP Profile screen opens.
5. In the Name box, type a name. In our example, we type lcs_tcp.
6. In the Idle Timeout row, check the Custom box. In the seconds
box, type 604800.
7. Modify the rest of the settings as applicable for your network. The
default settings should suffice for most networks.