F5 BIG-IQ vs Hitachi JP1 Automatic Job Management System [EOL] comparison

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:

• BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM)
• F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall™ (WAF)
• BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ (AFM)
• F5 SSL Orchestrator®
• F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender®
• BIG-IP Access Policy Manager® (APM)
• F5 Secure Web Gateway Services
• BIG-IP DNS

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 allows you to automate and optimize various business operations to achieve a system that is highly consistent and reliable. It allows you to automate, on a predefined schedule, day-to-day tasks such as calculating payroll and aggregating sales data. You can even automate one-time tasks and tasks where the task results determine which task is executed next. You can ensure that tasks are executed properly by defining jobs via intuitive operations, executing tasks according to a detailed job schedule, and monitoring tasks to quickly understand the status of execution.