Manage Bot Defense Advanced

Important: Bot Defense Advanced Self-Service Policy Management is a beta feature.

As your corporate IT infrastructure evolves, it might be necessary to make changes to your Bot Defense configuration, for example, to protect a new endpoint, add a new IP address to the allow list or to revert to a previous Bot policy version.

The following sections provide information about how to view your Bot infrastructure and Bot policies. To make changes to your configuration, contact the F5 Operations team.

Manage Your Bot Infrastructure

Information about how to view your current Bot infrastructure, including a list of clusters, configuration details and the status of each.

View Deployed Bot Infrastructure

To view your deployed Bot infrastructure, from the Bot Defense navigation menu, click Manage > Bot Infrastructure. If necessary, use Search to find the Bot infrastructure you want to view.

The Bot Infrastructure page includes the following information:

• Bot Infrastructure Name: A name to identify the infrastructure.
• Infra Traffic: The type of traffic that accesses that infrastructure.
• Region: The geographic region where the infrastructure is deployed.
• Endpoint Policy: The deployed Bot Endpoint policy name and version number.
• Network Policy: The deployed Bot Network policy name and version number.
• Allowlist Policy: The deployed Bot Allowlist policy name and version number.

You can perform the following additional tasks from the Bot Infrastructure page:

• Show Bot infrastructure status
• View configuration details

Show Bot Infrastructure Status

The following steps allow you to view the status of all your Bot infrastructures.

1. From the Bot Defense navigation menu, click Manage > Bot Infrastructure.

2. In the Actions column on the Bot Infrastructure, click the Action menu (…) next to a Bot infrastructure.

3. Click Show Bot Infrastructure Status. The following information appears for each infrastructure:

   • Deployment Status: The status of the deployment process for that infrastructure. Either Success, In-Progress or Failed.

   • Policies: The name and version number of each policy deployed for that infrastructure.

   • Details: Information about the status of your infrastructure.

     

     Figure: Bot Infrastructure Status

4. To exit, click anywhere outside of the Bot Infrastructure Status panel.

View Configuration Details

1. From the Bot Defense navigation menu, click Manage > Bot Infrastructure.

2. In the Actions column on the Bot Infrastructure, click the Action menu (…) next to a Bot Infrastructure.

3. Click View Configuration. The following information appears for the infrastructure you selected:

   • Name: The name of the Bot infrastructure.

   • Endpoint Policy: The deployed Bot Endpoint policy name, version number and traffic type (Web or Mobile).

   • Allowlist Policy: The deployed Bot Allowlist policy name and version number.

   • Network Policy: The deployed Bot Network policy name and version number.

   • Infrastructure Type:

     • Environment Type: Whether this is a production or development environment.
     • Traffic Type: The type of traffic that accesses the infrastructure (Web or Mobile).
     • Infra Type: Whether this is a hosted on on-premises infrastructure.

       Note: Only F5 Cloud Hosted infrastructure is currently supported.

     • Infra Host Name: The host name of the infrastructure assigned by F5.
     • Ingress: The Bot infrastructure cluster that your traffic enters to be evaluated by Bot Defense.
     • Egress: The IP addresses through which traffic exits after being evaluated by Bot Defense.

   • Access Control List: The list of IP addresses added to the Allowlist Policy.

     

     Figure: Configuration Details

4. To exit configuration details, click Cancel and Exit.

Manage Bot Policies

The Distributed Cloud Console lets you view details of your currently deployed polices as well as previous policy versions. To make changes to your policies, for example, to add protection for additional endpoints, change mitigation actions or update your routing information, contact the F5 Operations team.

View Policy Version History and Details

You can view history and policy details for the three most recent versions of each Bot Policy type.

1. From the Bot Defense navigation menu, click Manage > Bot Policies and then click either Bot Endpoint Policy, Bot Allowlist Policy or Bot Network Policy.

2. From the list of saved policy versions, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) next to the version you want to view and then click Policy Versions for the type of policy you selected.

3. In the Policy Versions box, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) next to the version you want to view and click View Version Configuration

   

   Figure: Policy Versions

Download a Policy JSON File

For each of your individual policies, you can download a JSON file that contains the details of the policy.

To download the JSON file:

1. From the Bot Defense navigation menu, click Manage > Bot Policies and then click either Bot Endpoint Policy, Bot Allowlist Policy or Bot Network Policy
2. From the list of saved policies, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) and then click Policy Versions.
3. From the list of saved policy versions, in the Actions column, click the Action menu (…) and then click Download JSON. The JSON file downloads to the download location configured in your browser.
4. When the download completes, click outside the Policy Versions window to close the window.