Enterprise Manager^™

Reduce the cost of managing your application delivery infrastructure

With the tremendous increase in application traffic in virtually every organization, Application Delivery Networking deployments are becoming larger throughout the business, across data centers, and over international boundaries. As these deployments expand, gaining visibility into and manageability over the many devices involved is critical to efficiently and cost-effectively managing the application delivery infrastructure.

F5 Enterprise Manager significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple F5 devices. You gain a single-pane view of your entire application delivery infrastructure and the tools you need to automate common tasks, ensure optimized application performance, and improve budgeting and forecasting to meet changing business needs.

Enterprise Manager is available in physical and virtual editions.

Lower costs through automation

Enterprise Manager helps you decrease deployment and management times as well as operational errors, resulting in a significant reduction of up to 30% in operating expenses and total cost of ownership (TCO).

You can select, stage, and automate common operational tasks, including:

• Configuration and certificate management
• Software updates
• Node management
• Policy control
• iHealth diagnostics

Optimize performance

Centralized analytics and reporting gives you insight into the performance of your web applications and user performance so you can assess, isolate, address, and track problem areas. It provides efficient troubleshooting, application visibility for capacity planning, and performance tuning and optimization. These reports provide comprehensive analysis of both client-side and server-side transactions.

Advanced monitoring capabilities give you an up-to-date, comprehensive view of traffic and device performance. Enterprise Manager also enables you to set thresholds and alerts so you can react quickly to changing network conditions to optimize application delivery infrastructure performance and the user experience. Alert methods include:

• SNMP trap to remote server
• Email containing alert details
• Syslog event to remote server

Troubleshoot and budget more effectively

Full visibility into your application delivery infrastructure helps you quickly isolate current application performance and traffic management problems as well as those that have grown systemically over time. Because Enterprise Manager monitors F5 devices that are strategically deployed in front of mission-critical applications, you get the data you need to effectively troubleshoot and minimize the business impact of performance issues with applications, servers, and other infrastructure.

More than 160 customizable metrics capture current and historical data from your F5 BIG-IP devices. Customers can analyze the data to:

• Troubleshoot and minimize the business impact of performance issues
• Budget and forecast more effectively
• Improve capacity planning
• Plan for 2048-bit SSL key performance impact

Choose from physical or virtual editions

Available in both physical and virtual editions, Enterprise Manager gives you the flexibility to deploy according to your business needs. You can support up to 100 BIG-IP devices on a single Enterprise Manager device or virtual edition.*

* Actual number of F5 devices supported may vary depending on the hardware platform, resources available, and configuration.