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Manage Bot Defense Standard

The following sections explain how to perform tasks that are periodically required to manage your Bot Defense Standard deployment.

Test Changes to Your Deployment

When you make changes to your deployment, F5 recommends that you make them in a test environment before you deploy them in your production environment.

If you protect a new web-based endpoint:

  1. When you add the endpoint to your test system, verify that Bot Defense injects JavaScript tags correctly. For information, see Verify that Bot Defense is injecting JavaScript tags in your application pages.
  2. When you add the endpoint to your production system, you must confirm that Bot Defense is working as expected and that no legitimate traffic is marked as automation before you enable mitigation actions. For information, see Analyze Bot Defense Results.

If you protect a new mobile application, you must perform a false positive analysis before you enable mitigation.

Manage Protected Applications

Use the Distributed Cloud Console to manage your protected applications, for example, to update your configuration, add a protected endpoint or to delete the protected application. For information about specific settings, see Configure Bot Defense and then view the documentation for your platform.

Important: Be sure to adequately test all changes to your deployment.

View and edit protected applications in Bot Defense

  1. From the Distributed Cloud Console Home page, select Bot Defense.
  2. Click Manage > Applications.
  3. To view configuration information for an application, from the Applications page, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) for the application you want to view and click Manage Configuration.
  4. To edit application configuration information, click Edit Configuration.
  5. In the Connector Type section, click Edit Configuration to view and edit configuration information.

View and edit protected applications in Web App and API Protection (WAAP)

  1. From the Distributed Cloud Console Home page, click Web App and API Protection.
  2. Click Manage > Load Balancers > HTTP Load Balancers.
  3. From the HTTP Load Balancers page, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) for the load balancer you want to manage and then click Manage Configuration.
  4. To edit Bot Defense configuration information for the load balancer, click Edit Configuration and then click Bot Protection and Edit Configuration.
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