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kridsana
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Sep 11, 2025

Is it possible to select ASM BoT profile from irule?

Hi. . Is it possible to select BoT profile from irule? . Concept is we have different set of IP which need to allow "some" BoT type. That why we can't use whitelist IP in BoT profile because it w...
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Juergen_Mang's avatar
Juergen_Mang
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Sep 11, 2025

No, you can only enable or disable it:

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/BOTDEFENSE__enable.html

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Injeyan_Kostas
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Sep 11, 2025

Taking up from this
you could forward these rewuests to another VS where the approriate Bot is selected
for example

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [IP::client_addr] eq "A" } {
		BOTDEFENSE::disable
		virtual NEW_VS
}

This new VS will be a clone of your main, use a not routable IP as VIP, with just a different Bot Profile