Using Wizards to Configure Applications

Wizards make it easier for you to carry out the most important configuration work by querying the necessary specifications step by step, checking any discrepancies and automatically adding the required handlers.

Not all settings available in vWAF can be made using wizards. The settings made using a wizard always apply to an entire application. If you want to carry out advanced settings for individual paths, you need to edit handlers manually (see Editing Paths, Editing Preconditions, and Editing Handlers).

For further information regarding setting up vWAF, see Guide: Recommended Work Sequence.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation area, select the application that you want to configure.
    The security configuration for this application appears.

  2. On the Wizards tab in the Action column, click the Edit icon for the wizard that you want to run. The start page of the wizard appears.

    On the left-hand side of each wizard, you find an overview of the individual steps. The step currently being edited is emphasized in bold. To get to the next page of a wizard, you click the Next button. The Back button takes you back to the previous page. For information on the attributes to be entered, see Wizards in the reference section.

    Your inputs are saved provisionally once you’ve run through all the steps in the wizard and have clicked the Finish button on the last page (Summary). If you close the wizard using the Cancel button or using one of the links in the vWAF administration interface, your inputs are discarded.

    NOTE
    After successfully running through a wizard, the changes made aren’t yet effective, which means that your web application is not yet protected accordingly. To do this, you need to commit and activate the configuration (see Committing and Activating Ruleset Changes).

    If you want to view the changes that a wizard has made to your security configuration on the level of the individual handlers, you can follow these in the change log (see Reviewing and Discarding Ruleset Changes).