App Firewall

App Firewall provides tools for creating, listing, retrieving, updating, and deleting resources in F5 Distributed Cloud.

Tools

Tool	Description
`f5xc-api-virtual-app-firewall-create`	Create Application Firewall.
`f5xc-api-virtual-app-firewall-get`	Get Application Firewall.
`f5xc-api-virtual-app-firewall-list`	List Application Firewall.
`f5xc-api-virtual-app-firewall-update`	Update Application Firewall.
`f5xc-api-virtual-app-firewall-delete`	Delete Application Firewall.

Parameters

Path Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
`namespace`	Namespace This defines the workspace within which each the configuration object is to be created.	`system`
`name`	Name The name of the configuration object to be fetched.	`example-resource`

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
`response_format`	The format in which the configuration object is to be fetched. This could be for example - in GetSpec form for the contents of object…	`GET_RSP_FORMAT_DEFAULT`
`label_filter`	A LabelSelectorType expression that every item in list response will satisfy.	`-`
`report_fields`	The report_fields parameter…	`-`
`report_status_fields`	The report_status_fields parameter…	`-`

Configuration Choices

This resource includes mutually exclusive configuration options:

allowed_response_codes_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.allow_all_response_codes`	Allow all response codes	✅ Yes
`spec.allowed_response_codes`	Allowed response codes

anonymization_setting

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.custom_anonymization`	Custom anonymization
`spec.default_anonymization`	Default anonymization	✅ Yes
`spec.disable_anonymization`	Disable anonymization

blocking_page_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.blocking_page`	Blocking page
`spec.use_default_blocking_page`	Use default blocking page	✅ Yes

bot_protection_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.bot_protection_setting`	Bot protection setting
`spec.default_bot_setting`	Default bot setting	✅ Yes

detection_setting_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.ai_risk_based_blocking`	Ai risk based blocking
`spec.default_detection_settings`	Default detection settings	✅ Yes
`spec.detection_settings`	Detection settings

enforcement_mode_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
`spec.blocking`	Blocking
`spec.monitoring`	Monitoring	✅ Yes

Example Usage

Ask Claude to help you work with App Firewall resources:

Create App Firewall

“Create a app-firewall named ‘example’ in the ‘production’ namespace”

List App Firewalls

“List all app-firewalls in the ‘production’ namespace”

Get App Firewall Details

“Get details of the app-firewall named ‘example’ in namespace ‘production‘“

CURL Examples

# List resources
curl -X GET "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/app_firewalls" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"

# Get specific resource
curl -X GET "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/app_firewalls/$${PARAM}" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"

# Create resource
curl -X POST "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/app_firewalls" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @app_firewall.json

# Delete resource
curl -X DELETE "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/app_firewalls/$${PARAM}" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"