Forum Discussion
Disable ASM illegal HTTP status response logging
- Jun 24, 2021
The purpose of Alarm is to let you know if you have traffic that may be illegal--but you haven't decided yet, as might be the case when the policy is in Transparent mode. For example, you might be checking that F5 Adv. WAF doesn't classify something as illegal that should be legal for your application before you place the policy in blocking mode. Alarm produces a log entry to alert you about the potential of a false positive violation.
Block controls whether the violation will cause the request to be blocked. Blocked events are always logged because they are illegal by definition.
If you really don't want to see that response code violation, you can create a custom logging profile, enable Response Logging, and then exclude specific response codes from being logged.
From the help section of Block:
Specifies, when checked (enabled), that if this violation occurs, the system performs the following actions:
- Records the request in the local log (the Requests screen) and/or in a remote log, depending on the settings of the logging profile. (...)
further down...
If the Alarm and/or Block check boxes are enabled, the system records, on the Requests screen, requests that trigger violations as Illegal Requests.
KR
Daniel
Recent Discussions
Related Content
* Getting Started on DevCentral
* Community Guidelines
* Community Terms of Use / EULA
* Community Ranking Explained
* Community Resources
* Contact the DevCentral Team
* Update MFA on account.f5.com