Enterprise Sharing and Governance

Navigate to VoltShare Downloads to download VoltShare for your operating system.

• For Apple macOS users:

  • Navigate to the application .dmg file and double-click it to run the installer.

  • Drag VoltShare.app to your Applications folder.

• For Microsoft Windows users, navigate to the application .exe file and double-click it to run the installer.

• For Linux-based distributions, the application file is pre-compiled and ready to use.

After you install VoltShare, you will be prompted to sign-in. If you are a first-time user, you will be prompted to sign-up.

• When you open VoltShare for the first time:

  • Click Next to view different features. Or click Skip to go straight to the sign-up process.

• If you are a first-time user:

  • Click For Teams.

• Click Sign Up.

• Follow the instructions to complete the sign-up process.

• If you already have a Distributed Cloud Services account and enterprise tenant:

  • Click For Teams.

  • In the my-domain.console.ves.volterra.io field, enter the name of your enterprise tenant. This example uses “treino.”

• Click Next.

• Enter the email and password used for your enterprise tenant.

• Click Log In.

Note: You may be prompted to provide an invitation code when you initially create a new Teams account with Distributed Cloud Services. To request an invitation code, go to Contact Us and fill in the form. Alternatively, email sales@cloud.f5.com to request an invitation code.

• From the F5® Distributed Cloud Console (Console) homepage, click All Services.

• Click Administration.

• From the Administration options, click IAM > Users > Add user.

• In the form fields, select a User Type, add your email, and fill in the other fields marked with an asterisk (*).

• Optionally, assign roles and namespaces to the new user with Assign roles and namespaces.

• After you finish, click Send Invite. This action triggers an email with set up instructions to the new user that was created.

• Notify all new users added that they need to download the VoltShare application and sign-in with their credentials.

Note: Instead of configuring users manually, you can also configure single sign-on (SSO) by following the integration guides for Azure Active Directory or Google Workspace in User Management.

• From the Console homepage, click All Services.

• Click VoltShare.

• Click Admin Policies > Add VoltShare admin policy.

• In the Metadata section, enter a name. Optionally, you can select a label and enter a description.

• In the VoltShare Admin Policy section, enter a value that corresponds to the amount of time a secret message is valid. You must enter a numeric value that ends with s, m, or h.

Note: s stands for seconds. m stands for minutes. h stands for hours. In this example, 720h stands for 720 hours that any secret message is valid for.

• Under User Encryption Policy, click Configure.

• To add all users, select Allow All Users from the Select Users to Allow drop-down menu.

• To add a list of users, select Allow List of Users from the Select Users to Allow drop-down menu.

• Configure the list:

  • Click Add item to add an individual user by ID or by regular expression (regex).

  • After you finish, click Add Item.

• To deny all users, select Deny List of Users from the Select Users to Deny drop-down menu.

• If you select Deny List of Users, click Add Item to deny an individual user by ID or by regular expression (regex).

• After you finish, click Apply.

• To configure with whom a team can share secret messages with:

  • Click Add Item. The default option is All Teams/Tenants.

• If you select Team/Tenant, enter a name in the Team/Tenant field.

• If you select Individual Users, click Configure to restrict specific users.

• Click Add Item and then click Back.

• After you finish, click Save and Exit.

• From the Select service drop-down menu, select Audit Logs and Alerts.

• Click Alerts Management > Alert Policies > Add Alert policy.

• In the Metadata section, enter a name for the object associated with the new alert in the Name field.

• In the Alert Receiver Configuration section, click Select Receiver to configure where the alerts are sent to.

• In the form that appears:

  • Click Add new Alert Receiver.

  • In the Name field, enter a name for the object associated with the new receiver.

  • From the Receiver drop-down menu, confirm Slack is selected.

  • Ensure that the Webhook URL is configured.

Note: You will need to configure the Slack API to enable Webhooks. For more information, follow the instructions at Webhooks. After you enable Webhooks, you will receive a Webhooks URL that you can encode.

• In the Channel field, provide the Webhook URL corresponding to the #alert-testing channel.

• Encode the URL as a Base64 string.

• After you finish, click Continue.

• In the Policy Rules section:

  • Click Configure.

  • Click Add Item.

  • Select the type of alerts to push to Slack. By default, Any is selected.

  • If you select Matching Severity, select a severity level from the Severities drop-down menu.

  • If you select Matching Group, select a group from the Groups drop-down menu.

  • If you select Matching Alertname, select an alert type from the Matching Alertname drop-down menu.

• In the Action field, confirm Send is selected.

• Click Apply.

• To configure how and when alerts are sent:

  • Click Show Advanced Fields.

  • Click Configure.

  • Click Show Advanced Fields for both sections.

  • In the Notify Interval For a Alert field, enter a numeric value. Hover over the ? symbol for information about the format to enter the numeric value.

  • In the Notification Grouping section, set the group notifications, wait interval, and group wait interval.

  • After you finish, click Apply.

• Click Save and Exit.

The Slack set up process is complete. If any encryption or decryption attempts cross a certain threshold, the alert will be pushed to the Slack channel.

This example shows the VoltShare alert triggered at 5:22pm in the #alert-testing Slack channel.

• In the Audit Logs and Alerts page:

  • Click Notifications > Alerts to view alerts.

  • Click Notifications > Audit Logs to view audit logs.

• Use the > symbol to select the time frame to match the alert time and investigate the activity.